• Targets and objectives
• Risk profiling – including helping the organisation to develop a bespoke business risk register
• Development of company specific health and safety risk registers
• Policy development
• Defining Roles and Responsibilities at all levels of the organisation

For any organisation that wishes to develop new safety management systems or revise current arrangements, the starting point is to review the activities and scope of the business. From this, the organisation can start to look at operational health and safety risk areas arising from its activities.

By using a risk register or similar risk evaluation tool, organisations – including the automotive retail market – can begin to identify risk areas which could result in the greatest harm to people/assets. They can also understand what control measures are in place (or should be) to reduce the potential for harmful events/incidents to occur.

Understanding who is responsible for what, coupled with strong leadership commitment, is critical to managing health and safety effectively. The organisation’s safety policy should clearly set out the roles and responsibilities framework for managing health and safety.

Once the organisation has assessed what stage of development it is at in relation to the safety management system, it can develop a health and safety improvement plan to take it to the next stage of development. The plan will develop targets for leaders, managers and supervisors to implement. This enables performance improvements to take place at all levels of the organisation.

At Regency Consultants, now incorporating Canham Associates, we can provide support to automotive retail and other companies in facilitating;

• Risk evaluation of work areas
• Developing the health and safety policy documentation
• Helping to develop a health and safety improvement plan and associated targets
• Development of the operational health and safety risk registers
• Benchmarking organisational arrangements against the OHSAS 18001, ISO 14001, ISO 45001 and ISO 45003 standards
• Preparing for the transition towards the new ISO45001 standard