FAQs

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1. We offer a wide range of courses including:
   Health and Safety in the Workplace
   Health and Safety for Managers
   Producing Method Statements and Risk Assessments
   First Aid
   Manual Handling  RETURN
    

2. Our courses are located throughout the UK.
   Please contact our Head Office for further information and to find out which
   course centre is closest to you.  RETURN
    

3. If you are an employer, then Health and Safety applies to you.  RETURN

   If you are an employer you then need to ensure your employees are not injured or made ill by the work they do. You need to develop a positive Health and Safety culture, where safe and healthy working practice becomes second nature to everyone. 

   It is your legal duty to protect the Health and Safety of all your employees. 

   The law requires that you provide whatever information, instruction and training is needed to ensure the well being of your employees.  RETURN
    

4. Whenever you have a responsibility for 5 employees or more, working for you in the workplace.   RETURN
    
5. A Risk Assessment is simply a careful examination of what in your work could cause harm to people, so that you weigh up whether you have taken enough precautions or should do more to prevent harm. 
   
   Workers and others have a right to be protected from harm caused by a failure to take reasonable control measures.
   
   Accidents and ill health can ruin lives and affect your business too if output is lost, machinery is damaged, insurance costs increase or you have to go to court. You are legally required to assess the risks in your workplace so that you put in place a plan to control the risks   RETURN
    
6. A Method Statement is a document detailing how a particular process will be carried out. Such a statement is used to describe how construction, installation, removal and demolition works can be carried out safely. It should include background details of the company, site address, copies of the company’s insurance details and an overview of the project. It should also detail the possible dangers associated with your particular part of the project and the methods of control to be established, to show how the work will be managed safely.   RETURN
    

7. A ‘Suitable and Sufficient’ risk assessment needs to be produced to cover employees and non-employees who could be affected by the employers undertakings. 

   This is a legal requirement as set out in the Management of Health and Safety Regulations 1999. 

   There are several other regulations that require specific Risk Assessments to be carried out before commencing a new job. These include:

   Ionising Radiation Regulations 1999
   Control of Asbestos at Work Regulations 2002
   Noise at Work Regulations 1989
   Manual Handling Operations Regulations 1992
   Health and Safety (Display Screen Equipment) Regulations 1992
   Work at Height Regulations 2005
   Draft Vibration at Work Regulations 2005
   Control of Lead at Work Regulations 2002
   Control of Substances Hazardous to Health Regulations 2002
   Regulatory Reform (Fire Safety) Order 2005 RETURN
    

8. You should prepare a unique safety Method Statement relating specifically to each new job. It should include a clear description of the precaution and systems of work involved which was identified in the Risk Assessment. Everyone involved in the work needs to know what the Method Statement says and confirm that it has been understood. If they cannot understand the precautions or systems of work they should not be permitted to carry out the work. 

   Make sure that arrangements are noted on the Method Statement for supervision to be carried out to check that the laid down procedures are being followed. RETURN
    

9. Explorer Associates are a World Wide organization. We have clients from a number of different countries throughout, Europe and parts of Africa.
   
   We operate an Emergency call-out scheme for our clients and we can attend any incident, within 12 hours in the UK and within 24 hours World Wide.RETURN
    

10. The simple and most straight forward answer is the contact ourselves and we will take the pressure away from you, taking the necessary action required into resolving the situation as quickly as possible.   RETURN
     

11. RIDDOR, means the reporting of Injuries, Diseases and Dangerous Occurrences Regulations 1995, which came into force on the 1^st April 1996. 

    RIDDOR requires the reporting of work related accidents, diseases and dangerous occurrences. It applies to all work incidents but not all accidents.
    
    Reporting accidents and ill health at work is a legal requirement. You need to make a report if there is an accident connected to work and your employees, or a self employed person working on your premises is killed or suffers major injury, including a result of physical violence.   RETURN
     

12. COSHH – The Control of Substances Hazardous to Health Regulations 2002. 

    Using chemicals or other hazardous substances at work can put people’s health at risk, so the law requires employers to control exposure to hazardous substances to prevent ill health. 

    If you as an employer, fail to adequately control hazardous substances, your employees or other general members of the public, can be affected by this. This could be anything from a mild eye or skin irritation through to in some major cases; death. Such cases could potentially involve Criminal or Civil cases being brought against you, leading to large sums of compensation or in some cases imprisonment for you, the employer.   RETURN
     

13. The F10 form is used when any person who needs to notify a project covered by the Construction (Design and Management) Regulations 1994, which last longer than 30 days or 500 person days.   RETURN
     

14. A project would require an F10 to notify the enforcing authority for the Construction (Design and Management) Regulations 2007 of any project that is likely to last longer than 30 days or involve more than 500 person days of construction work. 

    • Any day on which construction work is carried out (including holidays and weekends) should be counted, even if the work on that day is of short duration.

    • A person day is one individual, including supervisors and specialists, carrying out construction work for one normal working shift RETURN
     
15. CDM – Construction (Design and Management) Regulations 1994 is aimed at improving the overall management and co-ordination of Health and Safety and welfare throughout construction projects to reduce the large numbers of serious and fatal accidents and cases of ill health which occur every year in the construction industry.   RETURN
     

16. You project has to be classed as a CDM project if it lasts longer than 30 days or 500 person days to complete. 

    The CDM regulations place duties on all those who can contribute to the Health and Safety of a construction project. Duties are placed upon clients, designers, contractors and CDM Co-ordinators and require the production of certain documents; the Health and Safety plan and the Health and Safety file. 

    The client has to appoint a CDM Co-ordinator to help co-ordinate and manage the Health and Safety during the stages or preparation. 

    The client also has to appoint a Principal Contractor to co-ordinate and manage the Health and Safety during the work being carried out.   RETURN
     

17. The Health and Safety (First-Aid) Regulations 1981, require you to provide adequate and appropriate equipment, facilities and personnel to enable First Aid to be given to your employees if they are injured or become ill at work. 

    What is adequate and appropriate will depend on your individual circumstances. 

    An appointed person or person’s is someone you choose to take charge if someone is injured or falls ill. Including calling a ambulance if required. 

    Remember that appointed person should be available at all times people are at work onsite; this may mean appointing more then one person.   RETURN
     

18. Explorer Associates believe that they uniquely offer our clients a service, very much in the real world. Combining expertise as required by the client to give a tailored service that meets the needs of your project as is seen always excellent value for money, for you the client.   RETURN
     

19. The HSE (Health and Safety Executive) is the enforcing authority who works with the support of the Health and Safety Commission, who are responsible for the Health and Safety Regulations in Great Britain.

    Their mission is to protect peoples Health and Safety by ensuring risks in the forever changing workplace are properly controlled. The HSE can visit unannounced at anytime and have the power to close you down if they feel it is not following the Health and Safety laws put in place.  RETURN
     

20. Explorer Associates will deal directly with the HSE as your Health and Safety Consultants, taking the responsibility of dealing with whatever incident that has taken place which has led to the HSE becoming involved. 

    Or if the HSE carry out a random inspection on your company and your company is issued with any Enforcement Notices, Explorer Associates again acting as your Health and Safety Consultants will help you put in the necessary improvements to ensure these notices are lifted. RETURN
     

21. We will assess the areas within the HSE legislation that affect you and your company. From this, we will draw up a Health and Safety policy, generic Risk Assessments and oversee your new, Company Health and Safety Manual. RETURN
     

22. The Principal Contractor is usually the Main Contractor on site, although the regulations allow any contractor to take on this role, providing they are competent. 

    The duties of the Principal Contractor include;  

    Developing the pre construction Health and Safety plan prepared by the CDM Co-ordinator

    Ensure the co-operation between all contractors on site and that they all comply with the requirements of the Health and Safety plan. 

    Preventing un-authorised of anyone onsite.  

    Providing information to the CDM Co-ordinator and displaying the notice of the project the F10 form. 

    Providing information to the constructors and ensuring that their employees receive this and adequate training. 

    The Principal Contractor also has the authority to issue reasonable directions to contractors and make rules for the management to follow if necessary. RETURN
     

23. This is something we have carried out very successfully on a number of occasions. Being a competent company like ourselves, we pride ourselves will having the experience and know how to act as the Principal Contractor on a project of any size and duration. RETURN