Whether you need a bespoke service for individuals, or a tailored package for a whole organisation, CDM Scotland Ltd can deliver a professional and personal service to meet your requirements.
Health and Safety Management:
In order to best comply with the mass of health and safety legislation CDM Scotland Ltd can provide guidance on company policy, advice to executives and board members, strategic planning and safety management system production, implementation and review.
Project/ Site Audit:
A system of site audits is becoming increasingly useful to our clients. Being more extensive than a site inspection these audits aim at reviewing the management procedures on site, ensuring all works are being monitored and carried out safely, all method statements are adequate and being followed, the Construction Stage Health and Safety Plan is adequate and that solutions are provided to any problems highlighted. These audits are tailored to suit the individual needs of your company.
Site Inspections:
Our specialist consultant team can conduct health and safety inspections at regular intervals during a project and provide reports highlighting issues that need to be addressed and recommendations on how to achieve compliance. Our team takes great pride in providing solutions to problems and not simply finding faults.
Risk Assessment:
We can provide expert guidance and assistance in producing risk assessments in line with the Management of Health and Safety at Work Regulations 1999.
Contractor Selection:
With the requirement to ensure that you are using competent contractors, it is essential to ensure that a rigorous selection procedure is adopted. CDM Scotland Ltd can provide tailored solutions to assist in contractor selection.
We can carry out a full audit of contractors and sub-contracted designers and ensure that they are competent to carry out the envisaged role. We can either carry this out as a one off request of we can create and manage an 'Approved Contractor Database' system which is reviewed on an annual basis to ensure that the information contained is up-to-date and relevant.
Accident and Incident Investigation:
An accident or incident investigation could provide you with valuable defense evidence should you need to defend your organisation in a Criminal or Civil court. It is increasingly becoming a condition of insurance companies that all accidents or incidents are investigated. A thorough investigation will demonstrate a commitment to reducing the occurrence of accidents and a pro-active approach to the management of health and safety.
Emergency Call Out Service:
A member of the consultancy team can provide advice and recommendations whenever they may be required. We can also visit on an emergency basis.
Safety Policy Preparation and Review:
We can provide your company with a bespoke health and safety policy that is specific to the requirements of your organisation. We are increasingly adapting our methods of delivering policies and can provide it in either hard, electronic, or interactive. We can also review policies on an annual basis or as and when required to reflect changes in legislation, guidance and company structures.
Company Procedures:
We can provide your company with detailed and company specific policies and procedures covering a wide range of activities from working at height to working in confined spaces. Polices and procedures are structured to allow them to be integrated within an overall management system to compliment your health and safety policy and provide guidance on safe working practices to those on site.
Competent Person Service:
The Management of Health and Safety at Work Regulations 1999 state that:
"Every employer shall appoint one or more competent persons to assist him in undertaking the measures he needs to take to comply with the requirements and prohibitions imposed upon him"
CDM Scotland Ltd can act as your appointed ‘competent person’ and provide you with a full safety support package. CDM Scotland Ltd can also provide an additional specialist back-up to your existing in-house safety person(s).
Our service is structured around your requirements and provides comprehensive, on-going support by personal visits, advice and support via phone or e-mail.
Project Safety Management:
We can provide in-house safety advisor to manage your project needs. With certain projects requiring a full-time or frequent safety advisor to be on site, CDM Scotland Ltd can place an advisor to manage all health and safety requirements of the project as required.
All safety advisors are full time employees of CDM Scotland Ltd and can demonstrate the necessary competencies to undertake the required role.
