Services

General Consultancy

We provide general consultancy services to a wide range of clients.

Agree with us what you want and we will deliver it for you.

We offer long term contracts to act as your external advisor. You may benefit from the additional ‘on-tap’ support and assistance. So if want to know more about please contact Vincent for more details.

Audit and Inspection

Inspection and Audit services can provide you with the assurance that your systems are working properly and that you are doing the things that you need to do. Importantly inspection and audit also highlight any deficiencies in your current practice. Therefore we compare your practices against selected standards.

Extra Help

Sometimes even the most competent in-house team finds they need an external viewpoint. Many of our specialist contracts are with competent practitioners who need a second opinion or very specific assistance with an issue on the edge of their competency.

Asking for help is not a failure. It is often an opportunity to develop your own skills and enhance your own systems.

Specialist Consultancy

We provide specialist consultancy services for a wide range of clients. Every client has different needs. Therefore, all our services will be bespoke to your needs.

Fire Risk Assessment

Fire Risk Assessments are required by law. They are documents that explain the sources of fire, and how, as a business, you are going to prevent fires, manage the impacts of fire, and protect people from fire (including by evacuation).

Laboratory Safety

Specialist consultancy for biological (up to bio containment level 3) and chemical laboratories, including the risk assessment of work, and the design and maintenance of facilities.

Asbestos Management Audits

Looking at the way that you manage your asbestos and the processes you use to ensure that it is maintained in a safe condition, or safely removed, including the competency of the people involved at all stages.

Note this is not an asbestos survey, though we can suggest suitable surveyors if required.

Investigation

Investigations into accidents, incidents, near-miss events, complaints and in general anything that has cause for concern. Because we follow high standards we always include recommendations to address the root causes of the incident.

Root causes

These are the things that started or enabled the chain of events that leading to your incident. Addressing root causes may prevent many more incidents. Furthermore these incidents may superficially have no connection with the incident we investigated for you.

Our investigations

We undertake all our investigations in accordance with the HSE’s published HSG245 standard.

Legal Privilege

Our investigations may be conducted under ‘Legal Privilege‘ (if instructed by a solicitor). Also see the Expert Witnes services below.

Expert Witness

Vincent Theobald-Vega is a multi award winning expert in health and safety and so can give you support with a wide range of issues. These range from simply reviewing in-house measures, through to providing expert opinion (as a registered Expert Witness).

Civil Cases

Significant experience on cases where there is a contractual dispute involved to assist the parties in determining if or where there has been a health and safety failure and to what extent this has relevance to the dispute at hand.

Criminal Cases

Having been both an HSE ‘prosecutor’ (with a 100% conviction rate in court), and also working on the criminal defense side in cases, there is a lot to offer.

In the case of HSE or Local Authority investigations you may also want to have a competent second voice available to assist you in identifying suitable solutions or even assisting with defense when faced with legal action or notices.

A Second Eye

Sometimes having a second eye look over the evidence you have can help you to formulate a better opinion of the viability of a case.

Sometimes re-investigating the facts will raise new evidence or new questions that may significantly develop your case.