Fabrication and process: safety record

The record

What Stephen has delivered in fabrication and process

Health and safety support to fabrication and process operations as part of a client base spanning construction, retail, fabrication and process.
Site and premises inspections with reports and closeout, compliance auditing, policy and procedure review, and incident investigation for fabrication and process clients.
Qualsafe-accredited and bespoke training in risk assessment and COSHH.

Disciplines

The disciplines applied here

Risk assessments and RAMSSuitable and sufficient risk assessments under regulation 3, safe systems of work and method statements for high-risk work, and COSHH training.Read more Inspections and auditsSite and premises inspections with reports and closeout, compliance auditing and gap analysis, for construction, retail and process clients since 2011.Read more Accident investigationInvestigations led and managed through to closeout, RIDDOR reporting, and the evidence a business needs when the regulator or an insurer asks.Read more Competent person and policyWorking with directors and senior management on statutory compliance, policies and procedures, and the strategic guidance of director and safety meetings.Read more Training and coursesCITB, IOSH and NEBOSH courses delivered, from the Directors’ Role and SMSTS to Managing Safely and the NEBOSH Certificates, plus bespoke training.Read more Contractor managementAssessing subcontractor competence, supporting subcontractors on live sites, and the pre-qualification, induction and monitoring behind contractor control.Read more

Places

Where fabrication and process work was done

Guides

Guides that apply

ManagementThe health and safety policy: what the law requires and what a good one containsSection 2(3) of the 1974 Act, the five-employee threshold, the three parts of a policy, the arrangements section inspectors read first, and who signs it.Read more IncidentsAccident investigation: finding the root cause, not the person to blameThe HSG245 four-step approach, immediate, underlying and root causes, what RIDDOR requires and when, and the evidence to secure in the first hour.Read more

Questions about fabrication and process safety

How often must lifting equipment be thoroughly examined?

Under LOLER 1998, every six months for equipment that lifts people and for lifting accessories, every twelve months for other lifting equipment, or in accordance with a written scheme of examination drawn up by a competent person. The examination is separate from routine inspection and maintenance.

When is health surveillance required in a workshop?

Where a risk assessment shows that workers are exposed to a hazard that could cause an identifiable disease or adverse health effect, that valid detection techniques exist, and that surveillance is likely to further their protection. Welding fume, noise, hand-arm vibration, respiratory sensitisers and skin irritants are the usual triggers.

What are the noise action values?

The lower exposure action value is a daily or weekly personal exposure of 80 dB(A); the upper is 85 dB(A). Above the lower value hearing protection must be made available; above the upper it must be worn and the area marked. The exposure limit value, which must not be exceeded, is 87 dB(A) taking protection into account.

Fabrication and process operations

Health and safety in fabrication and process

What Stephen has delivered in fabrication and process

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Where fabrication and process work was done

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