OPTIMUM Launches Online Health & Safety

This month sees the launch of OPTIMUM’s new online “Health & Safety Manager” - providing affordable expertise to protect businesses from the increasing pressures of Health & Safety law and its spiralling cost of training and administration.

OPTIMUM’s online Health & Safety Manager relieves customers of the burden of trying to keep up to date with Health and Safety regulations, by providing businesses with their own professional expert in the form of regular emails and updates. The online service will email you with updates regarding any changes that you need to be aware of, and filter Liverpool based Health and Safety Enforcement Agency, Manchester based Health and Safety Compliance Agency and Health and Safety Registration Enforcement Division in Rochdale, have contacted organisations across the UK demanding payments of up to £249 to ensure they comply with H&S law. The HSE have advised any companies receiving such literature to ignore it, stating there are no legal:

• Providing a stencil written H&S policy
• Providing a continuous risk assessment check list
• Ensuring fire regulations are met by providing the correct information
• Giving you the tools to ensure employee welfare needs are considered
• On-going advice and support
• News bulletins

For more information on OPTIMUM’s Health and Safety Manager call our adviser on 01244 342133 or fill in the form on our contact page.

HSE Warns of Hoax Health & Safety Organisations

Three North West companies have been falsely claiming to regulate H&S legislation.

Liverpool based Health and Safety Enforcement Agency, Manchester based Health and Safety Compliance Agency and Health and Safety Registration Enforcement Division in Rochdale, have contacted organisations across the UK demanding payments of up to £249 to ensure they comply with H&S law. The HSE have advised any companies receiving such literature to ignore it, stating there are no legal requirements to purchase any such literature or services from these companies.

Justin McCracken, HSE’s Deputy Director General, said, “None of these companies are connected to the HSE. Organisations should be very wary of any approach from these firms, or any company ‘offering’ similar services. All three firms use wording suggesting they are not. HSE never writes indiscriminately to firms seeking advance payment for services which it has not provided.”

If you receive any such information, please contact our office as OPTIMUM are assisting the HSE in the collection of data relating to these companies and others. If you are unsure of any literature received please contact our office for a free confidential discussion and advice.

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