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If you’re looking to outsource your Health and Safety Competent Advice in 2023, there are a number of reasons why you should pick Walker Health and Safety Services Limited:

• We provide a full health and safety management system, including a policy, risk assessments and safe systems of work
• We post blogs on a weekly basis of informative information
• Tailor made Risk Assessments
• Help filling out PQQ’s (Health & Safety advice)
• Advice and support reporting any RIDDOR accidents or incidents to the Health and Safety Executive (HSE)
• Ability to gain expert reliable advice via email or the telephone
• Fire risk assessments, legionella risk assessments and training on request

Have a look at our testimonial page, click here!

If you think we may be able to help you on a monthly basis please get in touch.

Contact us if you would like to discuss a contract.

Merry Christmas

This holiday season, we at Walker Health and Safety Services Limited pause and take advantage of the season to express our gratitude and appreciation to you for doing business with us.

Wishing you a year full of happiness and success.

All the best for 2023!

Christmas is a time when your home is likely to be full of people, and it’s in the excitement of the season that accidents can easily happen.

In this infographic we look at the 12 facts of Christmas showing how easy it is to have accidents at home in some of the strangest of ways!

Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!!!

Contact us for health and safety advice.

Workplace temperature checklist

This checklist will help you carry out a basic risk assessment of workplace temperatures.

If you answer ‘yes’ to at least two of these questions you should assess the risks and find out how you can protect your workers.

What your workers think

• Have your workers complained about temperatures in your workplace?

Air temperature

• Does the air feel warm or hot?
• Does the workplace temperature change during a normal working day?
• Does the workplace temperature change a lot during hot or cold weather?

Radiant temperature

• Is there a heat source in the environment, for example machinery?
• Is there any equipment that produces steam?
• Is work being done outdoors?

Humidity

• Are your workers wearing personal protective equipment that allows air to flow through?
• Do your workers complain that the air is too dry?
• Do your workers complain that the air is humid?

Air movement

• Is cold or warm air blowing directly into the workspace?
• Are employees complaining of draughts?

Workers’ metabolic rate

• Is work rate moderate to intensive in warm or hot conditions?
• Are workers mainly seated in cool or cold environments?

Personal protective equipment (PPE)

• Is PPE being worn that protects against harmful toxins, chemicals, asbestos, flames, extreme heat etc?
• Can workers make changes to their clothing in response to high or low temperatures?
• Is respiratory protection being worn?

Contact us for further information.

Stress affects different people in different ways, and everyone has a different method of dealing with it. The chemicals that are released by your body as a result of stress can build up over time and cause various mental and physical symptoms.

Stress is an unfortunate but often unavoidable side effect of our busy lives. Having on-hand methods for managing stress is a good way to combat its physical, mental, and emotional impact. Click here to read our employee fact sheet on stress in the workplace.

During COVID many people were stressed about the pandemic, their work, their families and friends. Click here to read our blog published at that time.

Employers need to be proactive with employees to help understand what steps they need to take to proactively support their mental health so that you can focus on growing the business.

Contact us should you require advice or assistance.