Trevor Heynes Personnel Services: Health and Safety & Risk Assessment services

Without proper health and safey procedures and correct implementation, the horror can go on long after an accident at work

THPS began as a personnel Consultancy business in 1999, recognising the growing employer-led demand for outsourced people management support services.

We have extensive experience of helping a wide range of SME and corporate sector employers review and install personnel solutions and programmes for newly created and developing businesses. Successful growth and development led to the business being incorporated in 2003 and the opening of a Devon office in 2005.

We have a commercial and strategic approach to customer service. We help employers minimise the employment liabilities they face and install personnel policies and procedures to ensure their staff fulfil their potential and boost productivity.

Facts and figures

Did you know that –

Failure to carry out a workplace health & safety risk assessment is a criminal offence.
A care home director was recently fined £7,500 and £15,000 costs for consenting or conniving a breach of the Health & Safety at Work Act 1974.
The boss of a paint-stripping factory was jailed for nine months this year after being found guilty of manslaughter.
Small and Medium size businesses are now included within the Health & Safety Executive’s top priorities.
There are more amputees in companies with 5 or less employees pro rata to larger businesses.
A builders’ merchant was fined £40,000 plus some £4,000 costs for failing to instruct, train and supervise staff and for failing to implement measures to protect members of the public.
A recent survey of 800 workplaces found 15,000 slips and trips, the most likely from substances on the floor or obstructions and some 9,000 people suffer broken bones and other serious injuries through slips and trips every year? An employer was recently fined £20,000 because an employee suffered fatal injuries after falling some 5 feet whilst emptying waste in to a bin.
The government is currently reforming the law on Corporate Manslaughter and safety duties on directors.
Health & Safety Regulations require employers to issue a written Health & Safety Policy documents that are in 3 parts.
An employee who claimed he developed asthma through passive smoking at work has received a £50,000 out-of-court settlement from his employers.

How can we help?

By providing you with support, guidance and advice on health and safety issues, including all the areas listed below. Please contact us as a first port of call on a no obligation basis by completing the enquiry form.

Areas of Assistance

Health & Safety Policy Statement
Health & Safety Organisation Statement
Health & Safety Risk Assesment Training
Health & Safety Training
Health & Safety Audit
Health & Safety Staff Consultations
Health & Safety Committees
Health & Safety Regulations
Directors New Health & Safety Responsibilities
Health & Safety support, guidance and advice services
First Aid Staff Handbooks
Management Manuals
Disability Discrimination Act
First Aid

Health and Safety is a critical area with serious criminal repercussions if you neglect it. So don't delay getting an up-to-date assessment of where you are non-compliant.

A Message from Trevor Heynes

Is your business and/or your personal reputation at risk because of vulnerability to criminal prosecution under health & safety regulations?

Talk with us - we will help you to put arrangements in place to ensure the planning and implementation of health and safety measures is regularly controlled, monitored and compliant with health, safety and welfare regulations.


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