Health & Safety Consultants For Landlords

Expert:
PMAN owner, Paul Westwick CMIOSH has provided certifications to clients varying from SMEs to blue chip organisations across a wide-range of industries.

Affordable:
Our practises add worth at every stage, without taking up unnecessary management time. We promise to provide you with the best possible value for money – including a price promise from the outset, along with the ability to stagger payments at no extra cost where agreed.

Simple:
We remove the red tape and paperwork for you, making the process as smooth and straightforward as possible, and ensuring you get the management system structure that works for you.

What are the benefits of Water Safety Management?

The risks posed by poor water hygiene can be potentially fatal and recent Legionella outbreaks have proven to have a dramatic impact on business costs and reputation.

Maintaining first-rate water hygiene management reduces these risks, ensures legal obligations are met and buildings and their occupants stay healthy.

Water Hygiene Risk Assessment: Domestic Systems

A Water Hygiene risk assessment is legally required for all premises with water, where there is the potential to create a spray or aerosol and where there is the potential for the water on site to exceed 20°C.

The requirement to carry out a risk assessment is laid down in section 6 of the Control of Substances Hazardous to Health Regulations 2002 and section 3 of the Management of Health and Safety at Work Regulations (1999).

In order to give clear guidance and instruction on how to comply with the regulations, the Health and Safety Executive (HSE) has issued an approved code of practice ACOP L8, which details all the specific tasks, checks and policies/procedures which need to be in place for any organisation to fully comply with the legislation.

A water hygiene risk assessment carried out by the S2 Partnership will detail all the relevant assets, plant and systems on-site which have the potential to create a risk with regard to the growth and dissemination of Legionella bacteria.

Health & Safety Policies

As a landlord you are responsible for providing your tenant with a safe and healthy property for their peace and quiet enjoyment.

Sections 11-14 of the Landlord and Tenant Act 1985. These require the Landlord to keep in repair the structure and exterior of the property and keep in repair and proper working order the installations in the property for the supply of water, gas, electricity, sanitation and for space and water heating. This is why property inspections must be undertaken on a regular basis.

Fire Safety

Anyone having control of premises or some control over part of them will be responsible for fire safety. If having control, you must:

• carry out a fire risk assessment. Consider the possible risks to anyone who might be affected and keep the assessment up to date
• take steps to prevent fires such as making sure electrical equipment is maintained
• safeguard people using the workplace by taking fire precautions, for example, through escape routes, fire-resistant doors and walls, fire alarms and fire-fighting equipment
• train staff in fire safety

In commercial buildings, these responsibilities are normally shared by the landlord and tenant. For example, in multi-occupied office blocks that house several employers, all tenants have responsibility for those parts of the building used by their employees.

The landlord or managing agent:

• must make sure fire regulations are complied with on common staircases
• is responsible for maintaining and checking shared fire safety equipment covering the whole building

How can PMAN Consulting Ltd help?

The PMAN Consulting team of highly-qualified and experienced consultants undertakes hundreds of risk assessments each year to identify the site, task or organisation-specific risks in order to ensure health & safety and legal compliance.

A General Health & Safety Risk Assessment will be undertaken by a highly-qualified and experienced assessor with a knowledge and understanding of current health & safety legislation, along with good practice guidelines.

Our health & safety consultant will visit and survey the site by appointment and undertake a general risk assessment, including an examination of safety management policies, arrangements and practices. The assessment will include an examination of site safety documentation, a physical inspection of areas under the client’s responsibilities and, wherever appropriate, discussions with the relevant persons regarding health & safety-related issues.

This assessment will be carried out taking into account the requirements of health & safety and occupiers’ liability legislation, and principles of ISO 45001.

A full risk assessment report with digital photographs will be produced, including recommendations for any further action and any relevant monitoring log sheets

What are the benefits?

Risk assessments help to protect people as well as businesses by identifying and controlling hazards and risk which have the potential to cause harm in order to ensure life safety, legal compliance and protection of reputation.