
	Health and Safety
	What is a Risk Assessment?
	What are the legal requirements?
	How we can help

Health and Safety

The health and safety of your employees, residents and visitors is paramount.

A risk assessment is an important step in protecting your workers, and your business, as well as complying with the law. Employers must risk assess work activities as part of the process to ensure people’s health and safety is not put at risk. The risk assessment will identify straight forward practical steps that can be taken to protect people from harm and suffering.

The law does not expect you to eliminate all risk, but you are required to protect people as far as ‘reasonably practicable’.

What is a Risk Assessment?

Risk assessment is a fundamental principal of health and safety management. A risk assessment identifies hazards and assesses whether reasonable precautions have been taken to ensure no-one suffers harm as a result of those hazards.

Accidents and ill health can ruin lives and affect your business, e.g. through increased insurance costs, lost reputation, or if you have to go to court.

What are the legal requirements?

As an employer, you must carry out “suitable and sufficient” health and safety risk assessments as part of your duties under the Management of Health and Safety at Work Regulations 1999.

Sensible health and safety measures then must be put in place to manage these health and safety risks.

These risk assessments must then be reviewed periodically and whenever significant changes are made which could affect the assessment, e.g. after building alterations, or a change in the work activity/process.

How we can help

Contego Services can provide a cost-effective health and safety risk assessment service, which can be tailored to your specific requirements.

Contego Services specialises in risk assessing residential and commercial property, and we have developed a common sense, practical system of risk assessment that is both efficient and cost effective.

The risk assessment will look at the following areas, as applicable:

General workplace	Common areas, roof access, grounds, work at height, etc.
Substances hazardous to health	Hazard identification and control. COSHH.
Manual handling	Identifying hazardous activities, risks and controls
Lifts and plant rooms	Including assessment of machine guarding and maintenance requirements
Welfare facilities	Toilets, wash areas and rest areas (for staffed buildings)
Electrical safety	Advice on the testing and maintenance of electrical supply and portable electrical equipment
Building maintenance	Use of contractors: including cleaners, window cleaners, and decorators

Contego Services Limited - Offices in London and Bedfordshire

Company Number: 6331296