23 March 2017

Is your business safe?

Whether your company has 5 employees or 500, health and safety matters in every business and as an employer, you have a legal and ethical responsibility to protect your employees. We give you access to a comprehensive range of health & safety support specifically tailored for the print industry. From an online suite of products to use within your business to our expert advisers who are just a phone call away.

Not sure where to start? The BPIF Health and Safety Healthcheck offers a quick, pain-free way of assessing your workplace's compliance with health and safety law, and will take you through the areas of legislation, best practice and risk assessing. It is the perfect starting point to help you build and improve on your current processes.
The Healthcheck is delivered in half a day, and you will receive a detailed report highlighting the issues identified as well as advice on ways to comply with these areas. If you don't have the resource to implement the actions developed from the Healthcheck, the BPIF can create a bespoke Health & Safety Management Scheme for your business to enable you to meet the requirements of health and safety law.

Mandy Robson Health, Safety & Environmental Adviser commented,
‘HS&E has become more active in particular in the South Eastern region. With this increase in activity and the cost for HS&E intervention increasing, now is the time to take stock and review your health and safety practices'.

Without H&S Management of machine and process risk assessments, a business is more vulnerable to receiving improvement notices from the HSE and since the ‘Fee for Intervention', was introduced in 2013, this means that the company will be charged £129.00 per hour by the HSE (for each inspector present), for their time on site etc.

At the BPIF we make it easier for you to comply with the law and manage health and safety in your business. To find out more on about the BPIF Health & Safety service benefits click here.