Using the Online Service and Managing your Risk Management

Getting Started

Click on the Members Log on button on the left hand side of the page.

Enter your unique username & password and click on Log on

Once inside the Members Area, you can make use of the various helpful features of this service.

Self-Assessment Questionnaire

Ideally if this is your first visit you should begin by auditing your current Health & Safety/HR management procedures. Begin with the Self Assessments and follow the simple instructions (this is your legally required overall risk assessment of your workplace, and will help you to understand what problems you have and how to remedy them).

Follow the questionnaire process step by step, answering all the questions, you may pause and save to file at any point, however we do recommend you take time out to complete the assessment in one go. It is very likely you will be pleasantly surprised at how much you already have in place.
Once you have completed all the questions, you will be able to print an action plan in the form of a ‘To Do list’ of all the things you need to do to improve workplace safety and achieve compliance with the law. The ‘To Do list’ will also guide you and point to areas within the website to achieve, on occasions an immediate remedy.

A-Z Guidance

The aim of this section is to provide you with a single stop health and safety reference area, and with the linked downloadable documentation, to enable you to provide a quick and effective means of demonstrating compliance to any enforcement officers.
This Section aims to:

• Provide you with a health and safety reference system.
• Help you to produce a coherent record-keeping method.
• Provide you with a quick and effective means of demonstrating compliance to any enforcement officers.

Complying with Health & Safety Law in all its guises is not an option, but a demand of law. Ignorance in a court of law is not a defence.

Health and Safety Management Area

To keep up with legislation and set up a health and safety system that protects you and your company you should introduce a management system that can reduce the risk of accidents, litigation and downtime.

We continually refer to Health & Safety "being a journey not a destination" this area provides the procedures to help maintain and improve the health, safety and welfare of your workplace.

Ask the Expert service

Our “Ask the Expert” feature provides you with direct access to a Risk Management Consultant who would be happy to provide guidance on any risk management related concern or issue that you have, within a 24 hour service level guarantee. (In the case of the HR Expert Service this is a 24 hour response Monday to Friday).

Please keep any documentation that you use the site to produce (e.g. risk assessments, checklists) safe and together for future reference. They will help to defend you against prosecution or claims, and help protect your business. The document manager mentioned below is the place to store your documentation and create a health and safety file.

Download Area

Each Download Area provides you with all the key documentation, forms and guidance, which you can view, print out or use as templates to adapt to your organisations requirements. We also have a section of requested popular HSE documents that provide additional support to our users. Recently we have added a foreign language area.

Document Management System

Here you can back up and store all your Health and Safety and HR management documentation. Simply Download a Blank Version (right click and Save as...) of the selected file to your hard drive, edit and save. Then Upload to the relevant section. Using this service will enable you to provide documented evidence of compliance and create an online Health and Safety File. Should you have any difficulty at all, contact us through the Ask the Expert service.

Industry Specific Areas

If you operate within a specific risk industry, we have grouped information, guidance and direction by sector in order to help you. It is designed to address those areas where specific regulations have been put in place governing the particular risks the particular industry may encounter. Here issues are addressed not just the Rules.

HR Management Section

Use our HR Life Cycle.  This covers 5 areas of the employment cycle:

• New Employee’s
• During employment
• Training and Development
• Discipline and grievance
• Leaving Employment

Click on the relevant section of the Employment Cycle for a list of issues, key regulations and policies. From within the selected section you can then click on the individual headings to access further information and guidance on your chosen area.

Business Continuity

Business Continuity Planning encompasses the management processes that identify potential threats that will impact on a business' ability to provide its customers with its products or services and the actions needed to ensure the immediate future following any major disruption.

Business Continuity can often be taken for granted. Business managers invariably believe that they have everything covered because to date nothing has gone seriously wrong. Most likely nothing will.  But, what if there was a fire, not necessarily a big one, just sufficient to stop your business for a few of days. Would you manage?  Would you survive?  What if construction work in your area cut through your telecommunication cables, how would you operate until lines where repaired?  Do you have back up contact systems, alternate contact records that are not ‘trapped’ inside your pc?  A mobile phone pre loaded with all your important contacts?

Here you can assess your emergency procedures and using the download documents create an important and integral document to keep your business running under difficult circumstances.

Your membership:

Regular and good use of our Risk Management service should enable you to effectively manage your risks and enjoy a safer and more productive working environment. It will provide you with documentary evidence of your journey to compliance for any insurance or inspection requirements.
It should also help to protect your assets, give you greater peace of mind and enhance your ability to mitigate rising commercial insurance costs.