Services
Health and Safety Auditing
Capabilities
Be confident your employees and contractors are working safely. Avoid the costs of unknowingly breaching legislation and have confidence that your business is operating safely and well within legal requirements. Let Coyle Group be your audit partner.
Our experienced and highly qualified safety professionals will complete a comprehensive audit in your area of choice and provide you with a full report and ongoing support to address improvement areas and fulfil compliance requirements. We conduct compliance audits for facilities in the wind energy, utility and other construction industries.
Coyle Group has conducted audits for leading industry clients
Services
Health and Safety Auditing
Capabilities
Be confident your employees and contractors are working safely. Avoid the costs of unknowingly breaching legislation and have confidence that your business is operating safely and well within legal requirements. Let Coyle Group be your audit partner.
Our experienced and highly qualified safety professionals will complete a comprehensive audit in your area of choice and provide you with a full report and ongoing support to address improvement areas and fulfil compliance requirements. We conduct compliance audits for facilities in the wind energy, utility and other construction industries.
Coyle Group has conducted audits for leading wind and utilities companies such as ESB, Vestas, Siemens, and AirconMech.
Features
Our audits are suitable for single projects, multiple projects and business-as-usual operations.
We usually conduct a two-stage review. Initially our safety professional, who will have a minimum of 10 years’ experience in the specialist field, will collect the relevant data from your organisation and assess it for compliance and this will be corroborated through a central review by a second member of the Coyle Group team.
There will then be interviews with safety advisors to check the accuracy of the report and the data collected. This will result in a final audit report giving you a conclusive summary of compliance in your chosen area and presenting recommendations for improvement.
Coyle Group can also offer ongoing monthly compliance reports for ongoing compliance and improvement monitoring across multiple projects.
Our audit software tool, integrates with PowerBI, allowing us to easily provide regular trending and real-time compliance data from each of your projects.
Types / Details
We offer the following types of audits:
- Risk assessments
- Safety management systems’ assessments
- Operational reviews across:
o Worker height
o Chemicals
o Behaviour based safety
o Vehicles on plants
o Machinery
o Electricity
o Any other area of risk that may cause harm to an individual, the public or the environment
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RIDDOR and COVID-19
Many employers are concerned about their reporting obligations for COVID-19/Coronavirus/SARS-CoV-2 under RIDDOR in the ongoing pandemic. You may be pleased to know that you do not have to report everything to the Health and Safety Executive (HSE). We'll provide more info about when, what, and how to report.
The most common concern we've seen recently from employers is whether they need to report all COVID-19 and coronavirus testing results to the HSE. The short answer is no. According to the HSE: “There is no requirement under RIDDOR (The Reporting of Injuries, Diseases and Dangerous Occurrences Regulations 2013) to report incidents of disease or deaths of members of the public, patients, care home residents or service users from COVID-19. The reporting requirements relating to cases of, or deaths from, COVID-19 under RIDDOR apply only to occupational exposure, that is, as a result of a person's work.”
Generally speaking, the ordinary RIDDOR rules already cover COVID-19. You should only make a report under RIDDOR when one of the following circumstances applies:
• an accident or incident at work has or could have caused the release of coronavirus (SARS-CoV-2). (Report as Dangerous occurrence)
• a worker is diagnosed with COVID-19 due to occupational exposure. (Report as Disease)
• a worker dies because of occupational coronavirus exposure. (Report as Work-related death due to exposure to a biological agent)
The bottom line is that existing rules cover most COVID-19 measures, and most of the COVID-19 guidance comes from public health authorities rather than the HSE. The environment remains chaotic, but you can minimize your legal exposure by continuing your existing compliance steps. This will include communicating with your insurer about risks, following public health guidance, and communicating regularly with your workers or unions on any of their concerns.
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