Training Ltd

"Some consultants are like the bottom half of a double boiler: they get all heated up but don't know what's cooking." - anon - quotation from an unknown source.

We could have chosen any one of thousands of quotations that poke fun at consultants, or at least an element of them who are well characterised for being full of their own importance whilst the client comes second. This is something we are determined to avoid in our health and safety consultancy services. Our aim as health and safety consultants is to provide you with health and safety solutions that help your business, not just solutions that make life easier for a consultant.

We believe that health and safety at your business is about you and those around you. The solutions we advise will be tailored to you, your colleagues and people who come into contact with your business.

What Lucid Can Offer

We offer practical advice, guidance and documentation to fulfil both legislative and enforcing bodies' expectations of modern management of safety and risk control.

We can give expert help with solving safety problems which often having a direct business benefit through the reduction of wasted resources – human and material!

Our advice is provided by safety officers, not just ‘consultants’, who have worked in such diverse environments as local and national government, government agencies, multinational oil and gas equipment manufacturers, household name food brands and international clothes distribution and retail to name a few.

A typical consultancy arrangement would start with a review and audit of existing systems, policies and procedures (where in place), site safety audit and discussions with staff. This enables a formal assessment of the existing state of the safety management system which is fully reported to the senior management team. Development of an improvement strategy (a SHIP - Safety and Health Improvement Plan) takes place with full involvement of the senior management team as well as staff side representation to ensure full company involvement. Teams can then be instructed if necessary to begin the development of specific improvements, with ongoing evaluation and task review to ensure regulatory compliance and best practice involved at each stage.

Following the implementation of the initial safety controls, further work normally develops worker involvement with a strong emphasis on behavioural safety techniques and personal safety responsibility (often called ‘SOD IT’ – standing for See it, Own it and Do something about IT!!) On-going reviews are usually undertaken with a formal annual safety audit ensuring longer term improvements are taken to the core of the undertaking producint permanent positive safety cultural change. Email and phone contact is provided during business hours for ongoing issues and challenges.

Training can also be provided, with each course tailored to individual client requirements and based on client issues rather than an ‘off the peg’ course aimed at just anybody. Courses have been run in a very wide range of topics from risk management, work at height, asbestos awareness, manual handling to Electrical Competency, City and Guilds 17th Edition Wiring Regulations and Laser Safety. We have probably provided what you want in the past so please feel free to contact us and ask. Courses can either be held on your site or at our purpose built training facility in Cumbria.

Health and Safety Consultancy helping your business - a boost not a hindrance.

The proper application of health and safety could boost the commercial success of your business and not be a hindrance to it. How is this possible when many people regard health and safety as an obstacle? The proper application of appropriate health and safety can be motivational to a work force, and can help promote a "can do" attitude, where health and safety is simply an integral part of the job.

This is all about developing the ethos of the business to be health and safety orientated. This is empowering to employees because it is clear to them that they have some power and that under this health and safety regime all people are treated equally. It is about fostering a team approach to health and safety where every member of the team is important as a worker and an unofficial safety adviser looking after the health and safety interests of colleagues and others.

Lucid's expert health and safety practitioners can help you to establish the culture and behaviour to ensure your workplace is a safer, healthier and happier place to be. Let us help you with a health and safety audit.

Cost benefit analysis for health and safety traing and consultancy services

In the short term there is a cost to health and safety training for employees, but longer term we really believe appropriate health and safety training will have significant benefits. Even in the shorter term the ethos of team work in a shared goal to work safely and for long-term health, can play a significant part in helping to develop a dynamic and inspired team spirit. A team spirit focussed on working well together, understanding that health and safety can be a common denominator bringing people together with a shared interest no matter what their department or role within the business.

Health and safety can work for you and not against you when you get the right health and safety training, advice and support through Lucid health and safety consultancy. Give us a call now.