Supporting You, bespoke health and safety services
Our Service
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| Consultancy | Expert Witness | Training |
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| Investigations | Mentoring | Awards |
Bespoke health and safety solutions Safety 4 HEd. with our lead consultant Vincent Theobald-Vega who uses his huge experience in health and safety matters to support a wide range of clients. We can support you to:
- make your companies safer;
- ensure you are legally compliant; and,
- reduce your costs from accidents, incidents and other losses from health and safety shortcomings.
Our services are tailored to meet your needs. We have the experience, recognition and contacts to make your life safer and easier. Often at less cost than without using our specialist services.
Free assistance?
We offer an initial consultation for free to assist people in deciding what they need from us or from another consultant. No tricks, no heavy sales, just honest free advice. Because everything we do is delivered as bespoke health and safety services we don’t need to waste your time or charge you for things you don’t need.
Send us an email or call (but you may have to leave a voicemail). We usually get back to people the same or the next day.
In the North East you can use the Business and IP Centre at the Newcastle Library (via our page on their portal) or if you are looking for grant support you may want to use the NBSL funding applications, where we are listed as a provider.
Our advice includes Mentoring for health and safety professionals.
Book us online
Our availability is regularly updated giving you the opportunity to book us over the next two to three months. We are able to be booked for whole days, long and short visits, and online ‘Zoom’ sessions.
2024 – Yet another Award Winning year!
Just some of the latest awards we are proud to have received over the last year.
We have been consistently winning awards since 2015. You can visit our awards page for more information on the long list of awards to date. Naturally if you want to know more email info@safety4hed.co.uk and ask up.
These awards underline the quality and range of the bespoke health and safety services Safety 4 HEd offers our clients, across a wide range of issues. Our Expert Witness services are as much about not going to Court as they are about supporting Court cases. Our bespoke health and safety services support you in preventing accidents, incidents and a wide range of other issues.
Our Award Winning Expert Witness Services
We provide Expert Witness services to solicitors to support their cases by interpreting the specific issues of the case and assisting them in understanding how the Health and Safety law and technologies involved apply to their cases. Our cases have included a wide range of issues including: Asbestos removal works that have gone wrong; falls from height; slips on floors and from platforms; machinery incidents that have injred people or damaged property; chemical incidents (including burns, explostions and exposures); laboratory quality control failures; basically anything that you would expect a general HSE Inspector to know about, along with lots of laboratory specialisms as well.
Our reports are all written following the current Expert Witness guidance, and look at the issues in terms of the incident, the harm that could have been caused, the harm that was caused, the measures that could have been used to prevent the harm, and the barriers to the effectiveness of the measures.
Our Client Support Service
In addition to prosecutions, resulting in fines that are potentially in the millions, the HSE also charge a Fee For Intervention so that you have to pay for them appearing on your site (or even doing some ‘telephone investigations’), if they think that you have not done enough to manage your health and safety, resulting in a ‘material breach’. This is now £174 per hour, per Inspector, including travel time, onsite time, office meetings, report writing, and more, and it amounts to nearly £1,400 per day.
We provide a limited number of long-term contracts for companies. These enable a bespoke health and safety service supporting our clients to meet their specific needs. The contract also spreads the costs over monthly standing order payments. Therefore, providing peace of mind that there will be somebody there to help you if things go wrong. Subscribing to the service contract means that you can ask for help as much as you need – all included in the small monthly fee.
All our contracted Clients get a minimum of 1/3 off our normal prices for any additional services. But, because the service is so generous there are very few additional items to pay for.
Bespoke Health and Safety Training Courses
We deliver bespoke training courses – tailored to suit your specific needs.
Our bespoke courses include short sessions (of only an hour) to full day courses. We also do practical sessions (such as Evacuation Chair training in your workplace, using your chairs at the location they will be needed) or purely theoretical sessions when needed.
Vincent Theobald-Vega is a qualified instructor in many areas (such as Manual Handling) plus a qualified teacher, holding the Cert Ed (LLS) teaching qualification and is a part time University Lecturer (since 2003).
Legal matters
For our insurances, registrations, contracts and all things legal, please see the Legal Issues page.
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