
Health and Safety
Monitoring and Assurance
The secret to excellent health and safety standards is continuous improvement.
Did you know there is a legal duty to monitor, maintain and review arrangements for health and safety?
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It’s one thing to implement an effective health and safety system across your business but what happens next?​
Well, you need to know it works and remains effective.
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There’s a saying, “the only thing that is constant is change” and for that reason we should always monitor and measure our performance with a view to continuously improving what we do.
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Our monitoring and assurance services help businesses that are looking to learn and continually improve.
We have experienced rapid growth in a short period of time, transitioning from a small to a medium-sized business. Consequently, our health and safety needs and requirements also evolved, leaving us seeking additional support.
We initially reached out to Orchard Safety for guidance on the best course of action to ensure all our policies and procedures were fully up-to-date, and to ensure the correct training for our employees was in place.
Sam recommended conducting a gap analysis. Having already used a different company for this when we were a smaller business, we were unsure of its necessity. However, we trusted Sam’s advice, and thankfully, we did.
Sam completed the gap analysis for us within 10 days of booking and took the time to walk us through each point, opposed to just sending a report. Overall, Orchard Safety provided us with priceless support, ensuring our health and safety standards are up to par with our growing business needs.
Senior Operations Manager, Manufacturing
Benefits of regular monitoring the safety or work includes:

Identifying Weaknesses. It helps to identify gaps in existing health and safety standards, procedures and/ or practises.

Ensuring Compliance. It can help businesses meets all relevant health and safety regulations and standards.

Supporting Continuous Improvement. Provides valuable feedback on the effectiveness of current safety measures, driving continuous improvement.

Risk Reduction. Identifies potential hazards and risks, allowing for proactive measures to mitigate them.

Employee Engagement: Involving employees in the process, promotes a culture of learning and responsibility.

Enhancing Operational Efficiency. Identifies inefficiencies in safety procedures and suggests improvements.

Building Trust and Reputation. Demonstrates a commitment to health and safety, building trust with employees, customers, and stakeholders.
Health and Safety Gap Analysis
Our health and safety gap analysis provides you with an in-depth assessment and a detailed action plan, to help you understand what’s working well and where improvements may be required.
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The gap analysis covers three key areas:
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Policies & Planning
Have you got a current health and safety policy that details key elements such as roles and responsibilities, leadership, engagement and competence?
Risk & Operational Control
Can the organisation demonstrate it effectively identifies hazards and assesses risks and are the risks management effectively?
Monitoring & Assurance
Can the organisation demonstrate it has effective systems and processes in place to monitor the safety of work?
It’s important to remember this is an opportunity to learn.
We’re not there to judge or criticise but to provide an independent overview helping provide peace of mind that existing arrangements are effective or to help find solutions and identify opportunities for improvement.
The action plan included within the report will help you determine what needs to be done to addresses any shortfalls.
Health and Safety Site Inspections
Inspections are a key part of good health and safety management. Conducting regular health and safety inspections is a proactive approach to ensuring systems, processes and controls remain effective.
Regular safety inspections help to:

Identify potential hazards and unsafe practices, allowing for timely corrective actions.

Ensure the workplace complies with health and safety regulations, industry best practise and your own policies and procedures.

A commitment to safety, which can boost employee morale and confidence in their workplace.

Identify new risks and the required measures to mitigate them.
We can provide regular health and safety inspections, that are aligned to your own health and safety management system.
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We have suite of checklists and questions sets specific to a wide range of industries, but we are happy to spend time developing them in collaboration to ensure the output is fully tailored to your requirements.
Orchard Safety took time to understand our business and the current situation. There was a genuine desire to use the gap analysis to help us move forward. The approach was flexible, and Sam provided the clarity we needed to structure the gap analysis to get the best results.
Throughout the process Sam used his experience to provide realistic and sensible solutions to the actions identified – in some cases advising we do less to make the process easier for our employees. Because of the relationship we built and Sam’s approach to health and safety we asked him to continue working with us to help address some of the actions.
People Director