It’s October – and that need not be scary! The spooky season is nearly upon us, but nothing is more frightening than how quickly this year seems to be speeding by – but that’s probably because we’ve been so busy!

We’ve been lucky enough to work with some great UK companies over the years, but our client base also sees us venture abroad as well. We recently took (and enjoyed) business trips to Ireland and Amsterdam where we delivered some support, fire risk assessments and general risk assessments for a Europe-wide retail client. EU laws have a similar focus on safety, managing risk to life, safe systems of work and best practice.

A lot of the support packages that we offer companies in international locations is based on those same approaches that we adopt to our UK clients, though with due diligence paid to EU specific legislation where appropriate. Not only can HSM bring safe systems of work and competent advice for UK companies, we can help those organisations operate internationally with a core H&S set of policies and procedures – making it easier for these kind of retailers, or organisations keep up to date with health and safety compliance.

In this instance, in Southern Ireland & Amsterdam this meant we were able to successfully roll out our Health and Safety in Retail package which has been developed by working closely with retailers over many years. It gives them peace of mind that all staff are fully covered and that we are on hand if we’re needed.

Cerith Brawn, Director at HSM said: “Southern Ireland’s health and safety legislation is very similar to the UK and we work hard to support companies that care about their staff and customers. We make sure they feel supported with competent safe systems of work, fire safety, safe customer handling, hazard management, integrated risk assessment, periodic training and critical support when they need it.”

Our Health and Safety in Retail packages cost £1,600 +VAT for a single site and covers everything from manual handling to slips and trips to fire safety.

Contact us today for more information.