Every year 750,000 people take time off work for what they regard as work-related illness.
Employers will have insurance for accidents involving vehicles, third-parties and buildings damage, however insurance policies only cover a small proportion of the cost as a result of accidents.

Costs not covered by insurance include:
• Sick-pay.
• Damage or loss of products and raw materials.
• Production delays
• Management time to investigate what went wrong and to put things right
• The effect of your Company’s reputation
• Fines

Directors and Managers are now personally responsible and accountable for failures to control Health & Safety.

There are two key questions all Directors and Managers should ask themselves:
“Can I afford any failures?”
“Do I effectively manage Health & Safety?”

Our Approach:
New Level Safety focuses on five key steps required to ensure the implementation and control of the Health & Safety management system:

• Policy – provision of a Health & Safety policy and statement.
• Organisation – competency, control and structure.
• Planning and Implementation – objectives.
• Performance Measurement – active and reactive monitoring.
• Audit and Review – internal and external.

Step 1 - Policy
By establishing a written policy for Health & Safety, you are clearly outlining the influence for all your activities, including the selection of people, equipment and materials, the way the work is done and the way in which you design and provide goods and services.

Step 2 - Organisation
The purpose is to create a positive Health & Safety culture involving staff. This is achieved by addressing four key areas of positive culture, including competence (recruitment, training and advisory support), control (allocating roles and responsibilities, securing commitment, instruction and supervision), co-operation between individuals and groups and communication (verbal, written and visible). The specific areas to focus on with each category include:

Step 3 - Planning and Implementation
Establish control methods that allow you to plan for Health & Safety by setting objectives, implementing control processes, risk matrix, implementing standards of performance and developing a positive Health & Safety culture. Then implementing good practice solutions, procedures and standards against which performance can be measured.

Step 4 - Performance Measurement
Establish proactive monitoring processes to ensure set objectives and standards are achieved and effective, thereby eliminating accidents before they happen. Reactive monitoring process ensure accidents, workplace injuries, property damage and near misses are investigated and measures taken to prevent recurrence.

Step 5 - Audit and Review
Establish auditing processes to ensure:
• The required level of compliance with Health & Safety performance standards including
legislation.
• Areas where standards are absent or inadequate are adequately controlled.
• Stated objectives are achieved within the given time-scale.
• Accident, illness and incident data is collated to provide trend analysis.

Identify work activities that are new or have changed and may require risk assessment or new procedures