Health & Safety

Your responsibilities as an employer regarding Blood Borne Pathogens (BBV)

Under the Health and Safety at Work etc Act 1974 and the Management of Health and Safety at Work Regulations 1999.
• You have a legal duty to protect the health of your employees and anyone else, for example the public, who may be affected by your work, or who may be on your premises at any time.
• You must have a safety policy and you should consult your employees and safety representatives on the risks identified and the measures needed to prevent or control these risks.
• You must also ensure employees are familiar with the safety policy. Specific legislation on hazards that arise from working with biological agents such as BBVs is contained in the Control of Substances Hazardous to Health Regulations 2002 (as amended) (COSHH).
• Under COSHH you have a legal duty to assess the risk of infection for employees and others affected by your work.

Disposal of Waste:

• A risk assessment, as required by COSHH, should be carried out on any waste generated.

• Certain waste is classified as clinical waste and its collection, storage and disposal is subject to strict controls & licensing.

Clinical waste includes waste consisting wholly or partly of blood or other body fluids, swabs or dressings, syringes, needles or other sharp instruments, which unless made safe may be hazardous to any person coming into contact with it.

Our Commitment to Health & Safety

HBA Specialist Cleaning is committed to providing the best and safest service possible. Health and safety is of paramount
importance due to the type of work we undertake.
We proactively work in accordance with the following regulations and guidelines:

• The Health and Safety at Work Act
• The Control of Substances Hazardous to Health Regulations
• The Reporting of Incidents, Diseases and Dangerous Occurrences
• Personal Protective Equipment at Work Regulations

We have a full Health and Safety Policy and for all work carried out we can provide both a risk assessment and a method statement.
All waste transferred and disposed of is recorded in line with current legislations.

HBA Health & Safety Services

Recent figures show that an average of 250 employees and self-employed people are killed each year as a result of accidents in the workplace. A further 150 000 sustain major injuries or injuries that mean they are absent from work for more than three days. Over 2.3 million cases of ill health are caused or made worse by work.
According to the Labor Force Survey, over 40 million working days are lost through work-related injuries and ill health, at a cost to business of £2.5 billion.
HBA H&S services Carrying out your health and safety investigations will provide you with a deeper understanding of the risks associated with your work activities. Blaming individuals is ultimately fruitless and sustains the myth that accidents and cases of ill health are unavoidable when the opposite is true. Well thought-out risk control measures, combined with adequate supervision, monitoring and effective management (ie your risk management system) will ensure that your work activities are safe. Health and safety investigations are an important tool in developing and refining your risk management system.

Clearly, there are good financial reasons for reducing accidents and ill health. Costing show that for every £1 a business spends on insurance, it can be losing between £8 and £36 in uninsured costs.
The same accidents happen again and again, causing suffering and distress to an ever-widening circle of workers and their families. The investigation and analysis of work-related accidents and incidents forms an essential part of managing health and safety. However, learning the lessons from what you uncover is at the heart of preventing accidents and incidents. Identify what is wrong and take positive steps to put it right.
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HBA offer an effective investigation with a methodical, structured approach to information gathering, collation and analysis. The findings of the investigation will form the basis of an action plan to prevent the accident or incident from happening again and for improving your overall management of risk. Our findings will also point to areas of your risk assessments that need to be reviewed. This link with risk assessment(s) is a legal duty.

HBA H&S specialists will help you to adopt a systematic approach to determining why an accident or incident has occurred and the steps you need to take to make sure it does not happen again supported with a full accident investigation report with corrective actions and root cause analysis and close out procedure,

HBA have the added bonus of being able to offer our clients a qualified health and safety specialist to cover all aspects of their health and safety needs to ensure they are fully compliant with all current law and legislation.

Additional services
Pivotal system design and recommendations in the approval in gaining ISO 19001, 14001, 18001 & Pass99.
Design and implement a system to safely control all contractor’s on site.
Implementation of work permits system (Hot working, Hazardous substances and working at heights).
Competent in Risk assessments and Risk management.
Accident reporting systems and management, visibility, monitoring and root cause analysis to reduce reported accident levels.
Create and administer a successful visual Matrix system covering all legal requirements for a hazard free and compliant business including periodic inspections.
Controls whilst operating under a PPC permit for emission. Design robust documented systems to ensure full compliance of all permit conditions
Designed developed and administered a full waste management system which generated positive financial returns to 80% of materials used via effective recycling.
Manual handling training.
Create an accident investigation procedure fully commended by both the HSE visiting body and also the BSI audit team, administering a thorough investigation including root cause analysis with full corrective actions and close out procedure.
Total building risk assessment.
Fire risk assessments as required under the fire reform act 2005

HBA offer a 24 hour service in the event of accident or injury reportable under RIDDOR.