Have you ever thought of applying the principle of “Caveat Emptor” when hiring a H&S advisor?

The other day I was chatting with a friend and he was telling me about a business associate who was rather concerned about the amount he was having to pay for his Health and Safety consultant along with the down time he was experiencing having being told that  weekly H&S meetings were essential under the new Health and Safety at Work Act.    Not to do so could see him incur expensive penalties.

What my freind could not understand was that  a colleague of his, who is also a buisness owner, could get away with running just one H&S meeting a month.

It so happened that I was preparing an article on Caveat emptor and how important it is to take heed of this especially it in the area of health & safety. Effectivly he has no come back on the cosultant who prescribed the weekly meeting so enter Caveat emptor.  Take time to work through the H&S swamp of nonprescriptive legislation with your consultant.

So if you are thinking of hiring an external H&S consultant or you already use one, I suggest you follow this link to my article.  Hopefully you will gain from it.

||  A Hasmate release by Gordon Anderson  |  Wednesday  22 March 2017   |||