Sage Health and Safety Advice

Sage Health & Safety Advice is a legally reliable health and safety advice service. It translates the law into plain English, as well as advising you how to fulfil your obligations as a business. It doesn't stop at legal advice it goes much further, offering pragmatic, commercial guidance on how to manage your health and safety affairs.

Look at the questions below and if you are either unsure of the answer or say no to any questions then you may be at risk of not being up-to-date with the latest rules and regulations, which may lead to an enforcement notice being issued against you.

• Do you have a written health and safety policy and a clear set of procedures for dealing with health and safety events?
• Do you have written board and senior management commitment to proper risk assessment and management?
• Do you carry out regular health and safety assessments and take documented precautions to address the risks identified?
• Do your staff handbook and / or company rules provide employees with clear guidance as to their health and safety responsibilities?
• Are your employees briefed on your health and safety policies and procedures and how they should respond in an emergency?
• Do you have an accident book that all employees are aware of that is used to record incidents?
• Do you have an individual who has responsibility for health and safety matters in your organisation?
• Are your health and safety insurance certificates properly displayed?
• Are you aware of your, your employees’ and your organisation’s obligations and responsibilities in law for health and safety?
• Is your business registered with the right authority and do you have appropriate insurance?

Sage Health & Safety advice comes in 3 formats - Sage Health & Safety advice, Sage Health & Safety advice Professional and Sage Health & Safety advice tailored solutions.

As selecting the right correct solution may prove a time consuming task please call 0845 641 0624 or contact us for advice and the latest offer price.

Document Templates: A complete suite of health and safety documentation with over 80 procedures, step-by-step guides, letters, policies, forms and risk assessments. All these documents can be downloaded into Microsoft Word for you to print onto company-headed paper.

FAQs: An online bank of answers to businesses' frequently-asked health and safety questions. The database is continually updated with the answers to questions asked of our health and safety professionals.

Alerts: Proactive e-mail alerts tell you what you need to know and do ahead of legally required change and give you the tools to remain compliant.

Monthly Newsletters: Keep up to date with the latest developments in health and safety management and best practice, delivered by e mail.

Service Updates: The Sage Health & Safety Advice website is constantly evolving - each month you’ll be sent an update of the most recent and important additions to the service.

Professional Advice: Speak with a health and safety expert to receive legally reliable advice about your legal obligations. You can make contact by telephone, 9-5 weekdays, and receive instant, practical advice. Telephone calls are charged at local rate, and you are not restricted in the number of calls that you can make during your 12-month subscription. Alternatively, e-mail your query and receive a response within two working days.

Compliance Trail: If you need a history of advice on which you have acted, the Sage Health and Safety Advice Professional service can supply you with an appropriate report, documenting website usage, documents downloaded, e-mail traffic and telephone calls.

Quality Service: Qualified professionals field your queries, with an average of over 10 years’ hands-on health and safety experience. All calls are recorded and, where appropriate, a follow-up e-mail clarifies the main points of the advice given. The advice is not legalistic, but practical and tailored to your specific situation. Incidences are case number driven, so that the history of an issue can easily be referred to.

Compliance Review: makes your core documents, health and safety policy and risk assessments, compliant quickly.

Audit: review of all relevant documents, policies and procedures, with recommendations for change and improvements.

Document Maintenance: Following an Audit, Sage can maintain all your documents, policies and procedures. This is a proactive maintenance service that will help you remain compliant with all legislative changes. You will be advised of changes that are necessary, be provided with redrafted documents and be guided how to communicate changes to your business.

Review Meetings: You can arrange for a professional adviser to visit you to assist you and your team with all your health and safety matters. Visits may be arranged for a frequency of your choice. The adviser will be dedicated to your account and, where possible, take any calls you make to the advice line between visits.

Training: Our training can be delivered to your professionals, managers and / or staff. Depending on the audience, the training can be technical, practical or both. Each training course is tailored to meet the customer’s specific needs.

Intranet: To complement our Audit, Document Maintenance, Review Meetings and Training services, Sage can also build your own-branded secure website to host all your relevant documents, policies and procedures.

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