Housing.
We understand the risk profile of the housing sector. Whether it's building related compliance with the 'big six' through to ensuring the safety of your frontline teams, procuring and maintaining crucial relationships with contractors, delivering supported housing or community work. We're here to help.
A sample of some of the housing specific work is outlined below, whether it's one off project work to support your internal health and safety/learning and development/risk teams or a longer term relationship - we're here to help.
Create Safe Ltd
ADVICE AUDIT CONSULTANCY TRAINING SUPPORT
First Aid for Trades
We offer a half day First Aid for Trades which covers:
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Incidents likely to be encountered when working in peoples homes.
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Self treatment if you are working alone.
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Basic first aid skills for others.
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Dealing with an unresponsive casualty.
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CPR skills.
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Use of a defibrillator.
Sessions are for up to 12 delegates and delivered by our qualified First Aid Trainer & Assessor.
For further information, please contact admin@createsafe.co.uk
45001 Internal Audits, Supplier Audits and Gap Analysis
We can support organisations at every stage of their ISO 45001 journey, from initial gap analysis and system development through to implementation, internal auditing and ongoing improvement. Our ISO 45001 services can help you establish a practical, proportionate Occupational Health & Safety Management System, prepare for certification, maintain compliance and ensure your system delivers meaningful improvements in health and safety performance.
Inspection & Audit
Some examples of our audit and inspection services for our housing clients:
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Regular H&S Inspections of office and/or depot buildings.
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Health & Safety Audits on topics (e.g. lone working, personal safety, training, risk assessment) or on the entire health and safety management system.
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Active monitoring of contractors or in house teams working on empty homes or refurbishment projects.
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Active health and safety monitoring and inspections on development projects.
Policy & Procedures
We can help housing associations to develop and review health and safety policies, procedures and forms - essentially any element of your health and safety management system!
Recent examples of work with our clients includes:
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Onboarding process for new assets/developments to ensure building compliance data is captured at the handover stage.
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Development of a building compliance matrix.
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Overhaul of health and safety policy and supporting suite of procedures.
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Construction (Design & Management) procedure.
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Development and implementation of a health and safety training matrix.
Whatever your needs, we are flexible and solution focussed, so please do get in touch to discuss further.
Face Fit Testing
We can help our housing clients or their contractors to ensure that respiratory protective equipment is achieving a suitable seal, and therefore providing the intended level of protection from respiratory hazards.
We use a qualitative kit to help ensure that the mask is fitting appropriately. This test is only suitable for those who are clean shaven.
We offer face fit test prices per person or we can run group sessions or we can work with you to operate a regular programme to ensure new starters are captured at the beginning of their employment, please get in touch to discuss further.
For further information, please contact admin@createsafe.co.uk
Health & Safety Training for Board Members
Our Director & Founder, Emma works in collaboration with the Board Development Agency who have been working with the housing, and the not-for-profit sector across the devolved regions of the UK since 2004 to
· transform governance services and culture
· deliver support and training that meets your needs
· empower leadership teams of boards, staff and customers to learn and develop solutions which work for your organisation
BDA hold regular Health & Safety For Board Members Training led by Emma and further information can be found here https://boardagency.org.uk/
