ISO 45001 consultants
The business world understands the importance of health and safety. The challenge at an operational level is making sure it doesn't swallow your time or dominate your processes. We build a system that protects people without getting in their way.
Martin and Steve look after our health & safety clients.
What is ISO 45001?
For any business with people on site, on the road, or at a client's premises.
Achieving ISO 45001 demonstrates that your business takes a strong stance towards its occupational health and safety practices and is pulling out all the stops to keep its staff, customers and stakeholders free from harm.
As the best-regarded international standard for health and safety systems, it's designed to prevent work-related injuries, illnesses, and accidents while promoting a safe, positive working environment for everyone.
Why invest in ISO 45001?
ISO 45001 certification will help you:
Comply with health and safety legislation
The UK has some of the most stringent health and safety regulations in the world, particularly those that fall under the Health and Safety at Work Act 1974. ISO 45001 provides a comprehensive framework that will help you meet your legal obligations and avoid fines and other disruptive legal actions.
Reduce workplace injuries and illnesses
One of the primary objectives of ISO 45001 is to reduce workplace accidents, injuries, and illnesses. By implementing effective health and safety policies, identifying potential hazards, and putting controls in place to mitigate risks, you can significantly improve the safety of your workforce.
Reduce costs associated with incidents
Direct costs relating to accidents, injuries and illnesses may include medical expenses, compensation claims, and fines, while indirect costs can involve lost productivity, increased insurance premiums, and damage to company reputation. ISO 45001 helps you proactively reduce and manage these expenses.
Gain a reputation for being responsible
Becoming ISO 45001 certified demonstrates that you are committed to running a safe working environment – so naturally, your customers, employees and stakeholders will feel like they are in the best hands when they partner with you. Being known for a strict approach to health and safety can also help to attract and retain new staff.
Adopt a systematic approach to risk management
Having better systems in place will help you reduce disruptions caused by any accidents or health-related issues and avoid the downtime and reduced productivity that often goes hand in hand with these challenges. If you're in a particularly high-risk sector, such as the construction or manufacturing industry, managing risk more robustly will quickly become a competitive advantage.
Mitigate risk
Under ISO 45001, you need to conduct risk assessments, implement preventive measures, and regularly review and improve your safety procedures. Doing so demonstrates your due diligence and compliance with best practices, which can sometimes help to mitigate against any legal liabilities.
Stay accountable
ISO 45001 promotes a cycle of continual improvement which keeps you on top of your health and safety performance as a business. If health and safety regulations evolve, perhaps due to new technologies or changing working environments, you'll be able to adapt to them quickly and confidently.
Improve in-house safety initiatives
ISO 45001 asks that you promote a culture of safety throughout the organisation, which usually involves engaging employees at all levels in health and safety initiatives, improving communication, and ensuring that everyone understands their roles and responsibilities in maintaining a safe workplace.
Access more opportunities
If you've got one eye on growth, ISO 45001 certification can help you meet global health and safety expectations, ensuring that your operations adhere to high standards regardless of where your business activities are taking place.
What ISO 45001 asks of you
These are the parts of the system we build.
- Hazard identification and risk assessments, written with the people doing the work
- A compliance obligations register under the Health and Safety at Work Act 1974
- Worker consultation and participation — the requirement that catches most firms out
- Documented safe systems of work that people will actually follow
- Incident reporting and investigation, including what RIDDOR requires of you
- Emergency preparedness and response, tested rather than filed
- Contractor and site controls, for work you do on somebody else's premises
- Monitoring, internal audit and management review that produce decisions
How ISO 45001 registration actually works
Six stages, in the order we work through them. How long each takes depends on how much of your safety management is already written down.
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Stage 1
Gap analysis
We look at what you have and tell you plainly how far off ISO 45001 you are. Nothing is committed at this point.
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Stage 2
Hazard identification and risk assessment
Done with your teams rather than to them. The people doing the job know where the risks are, and the standard expects them to be consulted anyway.
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Stage 3
Building and refining your system
Safe systems of work, registers and controls, implemented as smoothly as possible and without disrupting your operations.
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Stage 4
Training your team
Auditor, management awareness and staff awareness training, plus COSHH, risk assessment, face fit testing and face fit train-the-trainer where you need them.
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Stage 5
Internal audits and management review
We run the audit programme and the review meetings, so the continual improvement cycle the standard asks for is genuinely turning before an assessor sees it.
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Stage 6
The assessment visit, and everything after it
A consultant is in the room with you for the external assessment, and stays on for the surveillance visits afterwards if you want us to.
Not sure whether you are high risk enough to need it?
We support all kinds of businesses in all manner of sectors — not just those typically deemed high risk. Have a free, confidential chat and find out where you stand.
Working with our ISO 45001 consultants
You can expect a friendly, fully tailored approach to ISO 45001 consultancy from our Essex-based team, who can also partner with firms in London, Hertfordshire and the surrounding areas if required.
Our experienced ISO 45001 consultants will help you design and implement a simple, effective health and safety management system that will serve to identify possible hazards within your workplace, working with your teams to establish risk and ensure measures are implemented as smoothly as possible and without disrupting your operations.
We can support all kinds of businesses in all manner of sectors – not just those who are typically deemed high risk. Get in touch to explore your options and have a free, confidential chat with one of our specialist ISO 45001 consultants now.
- Worker consultation built in, as the standard requires
- COSHH, risk assessment and face fit testing training available
Sectors we take through ISO 45001
Not just the ones typically deemed high risk.
- Construction
- Manufacturing
- Printing
- Roofing & contracting
- Engineering
- Facilities management
- Logistics
- Professional services
We work across Essex, London, Hertfordshire and the surrounding areas — including a dedicated page for businesses in Norfolk.
Safety systems we look after
Three clients we have supported with their health and safety systems.
“They have very quickly become a vital part of our internal audit program as part of our compliance with OHSAS18001 and then the transition to ISO45001. Their down to earth approach has ensured that we are getting real value for money from ADL.”
“Martin, Stephen and the team have been brilliant in their approach. They have assisted us in achieving our ISO9001 registration, which has had a positive impact in structuring our business. In addition, Martin has supported us with our Health & safety to help achieve our ISO45001 registration.”
“With Martin's assistance we have added OHSAS 18001 certification and are currently going through the process to migrate to ISO45001. We are constantly reassured in their quality and professionalism, when BSI Auditors comment on how thorough and effective their bespoke integrated managed system is.”
We register our ISO 45001 clients, with these UKAS approved registration bodies
Where ISO 45001 takes you next
Safety rarely travels alone. Several of our clients run all four standards as one integrated system on a single audit cycle.
ISO 14001 Environmental
The standard most often run alongside ISO 45001. Their risk assessment, audit programme and management review share most of their machinery.
ISO 14001 consultantsISO 9001 & AS9100
The quality core. Most of our ISO 45001 clients hold it already, and it is usually where an integrated system starts.
ISO 9001 consultantsHealth & safety training
Auditor and awareness training, plus COSHH, risk assessment, face fit testing and face fit train-the-trainer — the widest course list we offer for any standard.
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Have a free, confidential chat about your health and safety management system and what ISO 45001 would involve.
