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For managing directors and operations leads weighing a hire against an external team. What outsourcing covers, what stays your legal responsibility, and what changes when Opus is your competent person.
What's included in this service
Everything an inspector would ask to see, kept current by the consultant who knows your sites. Opus is appointed as your competent person, and the appointment covers three things: the assessments and surveys your sites need, the audits and reviews that keep them current, and the support to call on if something goes wrong. Your documentation, actions and renewal dates sit in Compliance Cloud, so you can see what is in place and what is due without asking anyone.
What's included in this service
Everything an inspector would ask to see, kept current by the consultant who knows your sites. Opus is appointed as your competent person, and the appointment covers three things: the assessments and surveys your sites need, the audits and reviews that keep them current, and the support to call on if something goes wrong. Your documentation, actions and renewal dates sit in Compliance Cloud, so you can see what is in place and what is due without asking anyone.
Assessments and surveys
The assessments and surveys your sites are expected to hold, from fire risk and COSHH through to asbestos, noise and DSEAR. Your consultant carries out or organises them, and keeps them current as the work or the law changes.
Audits and oversight
The checks that keep it all working between assessments: where you stand against the law, what your policies and procedures say, who still needs training, CDM support where you have construction work, and what changes when the regulations do.
When something goes wrong
If there is an incident: investigation, RIDDOR reporting where a report is due, and support through any enforcement action, including dealing with the enforcing authority.
Two ways to work with Opus
Book a one-off service for a specific need, or take on a partnership for ongoing support. Either way, the work gets done by the same team.
Book a service
For a specific need - a single assessment, audit, or
on-site service with a clear deliverable.
Opus Safety Partnership
Ongoing support and consider-it-done compliance. For businesses that want compliance off their plate, not on their to-do list.
Not sure which fits? Speak to a consultant - no commitment required.
Alsford Timber
Outsourced health and safety by sector
Warehousing & Logistics
Keeping people apart from materials handling equipment, racking damage, loading bays and agency staff starting on a Monday. The assessment is revisited as the operation changes.
Manufacturing & Engineering
Machinery guarding, local exhaust ventilation, noise and process-generated exposures, assessed by a specialist with hands-on experience in your sector.
Garden Centres
Seasonal staff, the public walking past working forklifts, a wide chemical range and legionella in the water systems. We keep induction, training records and assessments aligned across the season.
Metal Stockholders
Welding fume and metalworking fluid mists, noise from cutting, hand-arm vibration and overhead lifting. The assessment follows the material through the yard.
Education & Nurseries
Asbestos in older buildings, evacuating young children, science lab COSHH and lone working early and late.
Hospitality & Catering
Extraction canopies, fryers and hot surfaces next to combustible stock, wet floors through service, agency and under-18 staff, and guests on site late.
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Petrol Forecourts
Often three businesses on one site: DSEAR zones around the pumps and tanks, fire risk across shop, canopy and car wash, and lone working at 2am.
Tell us the size of your business and what is already in place. We will tell you honestly which of the two fits, including when a hire is the better answer.
Frequently asked questions
Does outsourcing transfer our legal responsibility?
Is outsourcing cheaper than hiring?
What does a competent person actually do?
Can you work alongside our existing H&S team?
What is the difference between the Partnership and a one-off service?
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