Construction Site Safety Consultancy | UK Health & Safety Services

Expert Construction Safety Management Solutions

SafetyRAC provides expert health and safety consultancy services for construction businesses across the UK. Our team delivers practical guidance, innovative strategies, and tailored solutions to help companies meet their statutory health and safety obligations and achieve compliance with the CDM Regulations 2015.

Overview of Health and Safety in the Construction Sector

The construction sector is regulated by the Construction, Design and Management Regulations 2015 which serves as the principal legislation governing the activities of construction sites. The Building Safety Act 2022 introduces additional requirements for buildings exceeding 18 meters in height. These regulations and the Health and Safety at Work Act 1974 establish clear statutory obligations that must be complied with by all businesses and employers.

The construction sector continues to be a significant risk industry. The Health and Safety Executive (HSE) data for 23/24 reveals 51 fatal injuries to workers, which represents the highest number across all industrial sectors. Falls from height remain the leading cause of death. The data also shows that being struck by moving vehicles (25 deaths) and moving objects (20 deaths) were other significant causes of fatal accidents, followed by entrapment incidents involving collapsing or overturning structures (15 deaths).

How SafetyRAC can Support your Company

Making Sure Your Company Follows the Rules!
We help businesses understand their statutory construction health and safety obligations so they can be confident they are complying with the law.

Finding and Fixing Problems
We help businesses identify significant health and safety hazards and non-compliant practices before they cause an accident, injury, or enforcement issue. We review your records and wider health and safety framework to ensure the required information is available, suitable, and sufficient.

Teaching Your Team
We provide a range of training solutions to help employees enhance their knowledge, behaviour, and attitude toward health and safety.

Construction Safety Services

SafetyRAC offers a range of consultancy services designed for the construction sector:

Risk Assessments: we can help develop and review construction risk assessments to ensure they meet the threshold of suitability and sufficiency.
Policy and Procedure Development: we create and review construction policies and standard operating procedures to ensure they are fully optimised.
Site Inspections: we undertake a range of proactive and reactive construction health and safety inspections that identify hazards and propose remedial actions.
Accident Investigation: we provide comprehensive support in the event of an accident to identify the root cause(s) and any associated learning.

Enforcement Support: we assist with HSE visits or enforcement actions, including notices to the required level of compliance is reached.

Safety Audits: we conduct comprehensive audits that evaluate the overall effectiveness of your health and safety management framework.

Already have Health and Safety Resource?

Even the best professionals sometimes need additional support or a second opinion. SafetyRAC can work alongside existing health and safety resources to provide a range of solutions where there are internal capacity issues or where projects or other issues would benefit from an independent opinion.

Don’t have an internal safety team? Our subscription health and safety advice line may be just what you need. It offers:

Unlimited phone and email support
Help with reviewing your safety documents
Quick answers when you need them
Expert guidance on safety issues

Free Construction Safety Tools and Resource

Navigate to our resources page, where we have a range of free tools and calculators to help make achieving compliance easier. Our free tools include:

F10 Notification Calculator: This tool helps determine whether a construction project needs to be notified to the Health and Safety Executive (HSE).
RIDDOR Notification Checker: This tool helps identify whether certain types of construction related accidents and incidents are RIDDOR notifiable to the HSE.
Hand Arm Vibration Calculator: This calculator helps establish hand arm vibration levels to ensure users are not unduly exposed to vibration levels that exceed the exposure limit value.
Whole Body Vibration Calculator: This calculator helps establish vibration levels to ensure users are not exposed to whole body vibration levels that exceed the exposure limit value.