A health and safety audit answers one question: if an inspector, an insurer or a client walked in tomorrow, would your arrangements stand up? It checks the policy, the risk assessments, the training records, the maintenance and inspection records and the competence behind them against the regulations that apply to your work, and ranks what is missing by risk. York Green audits are carried out on site by a professionally qualified consultant and signed off by a Chartered practitioner, as part of our health and safety consultancy.
Twenty minutes, no charge. Or call 07949 084819.
Fixed quote, agreed in writing
Working across the Midlands, the North West, Yorkshire and North Wales
Professional indemnity insured
What an audit is
The written policy and whether it describes what the business does. The risk assessments, and whether they cover the activities on site as they are actually carried out. The specialist assessments the law asks for separately: fire, dangerous substances, work equipment, hazardous substances and water systems, where they apply. Training and competence: who has been trained in what, and whether the records prove it. Maintenance, inspection and statutory examination records for equipment. Accident and near-miss reporting and what was done afterwards. Contractor management. Consultation with staff. And the competent person arrangement itself.
Before a tender or an accreditation application that asks about your health and safety arrangements. After an incident, a near miss or an inspection. When the person who used to look after it has left. When the folder was built from templates years ago and nobody is sure it still describes the business. And at the start of outsourced health and safety support, where the audit is the baseline review inside Onboarding. A manufacturer came to us after a letter from an inspector requiring improvements. The scoping visit found three assessments that had never been done: dangerous substances, work equipment and hazardous substances. An audit a year earlier would have listed all three.
A written report that lists what was checked, what was found and what to do about it, with each action ranked by risk and given an owner and a timescale. Written in plain English so a supervisor can act on it. Delivered in GreenLight, our client portal, so the actions can be tracked to closure. A debrief with the consultant who did the work.
A professionally qualified consultant who visits the site and walks the work, not a form sent by email. Technical sign-off by a Chartered practitioner. York Green's own management is independently audited by Alcumus every year under SafeContractor, so we are assessed on the same terms we assess you on.
It is quoted on the number of sites, the headcount and the activities, as a fixed figure agreed in writing after a twenty-minute Greenlight Call. For clients on outsourced health and safety support the first audit is the baseline review inside Onboarding.
An audit checks whether your arrangements as a whole do what the law requires. A risk assessment looks at one activity or hazard and sets the controls. If you have never had either, start with the audit; it tells you which assessments you are missing. If you know the gap is a specific hazard, go straight to the assessment: fire risk assessment, DSEAR assessment or PUWER assessment.
How the work is delivered
Support is delivered by professionally qualified consultants working to a single documented method, with technical sign-off held centrally.
The same consultant, who learns your operation, rather than whoever picks up the phone that day.
Documentation is reviewed and signed off by a Chartered practitioner before it reaches you.
Policies and assessments your supervisors can follow, not legalese that sits in a folder.
Manufacturing, warehousing and logistics, trades and construction, and office-based businesses.
What this support is built on
Consultants are professionally qualified and every deliverable is technically reviewed before it reaches you. Registrations and CVs are available on request.
Proof
Straight answers
No regulation uses the word. What the law requires is that your arrangements are adequate and reviewed, and an audit is how most businesses find out whether they are. Management standards such as HSG65 and ISO 45001 do require periodic audit; see our safety management systems service.
Half a day on site for a single low-risk premises, up to two days for a multi-process manufacturing site. It is agreed on the Greenlight Call.
The report tells you what to fix and in what order. Where you want help doing it, the assessments and the policy work are quoted separately, or carried inside a monthly arrangement.
It gives you the evidence those schemes ask for and tells you what is missing before you apply. The scheme's own assessment is separate.
Next step
Five boxes, about a minute. Every enquiry is read by a consultant rather than a call centre, and we come back to you within one working day. If the honest answer is that you need one assessment rather than a monthly arrangement, we will tell you that instead of selling you a package.
Would rather talk now? Call 07949 084819 or email enquiries@yorkgreen.uk.
We reply within one working day.
