Annual health and safety audit
An annual audit to help identify health and safety priorities. We agree the audit scope and coverage for your school or trust in your proposal.
Competent person support for schools and academy trusts.
An annual health and safety audit and a named consultant. Practical support to help your school or trust understand its priorities and make informed safety decisions.
Request a competent person quoteStart with a free, no-obligation Teams call. Scope and cost agreed before work begins.
YOUR LEGAL DUTY
Competent health and safety assistance is a legal requirement.
The employer responsible for your school or trust must appoint one or more competent persons to help it take the measures needed to meet its health and safety legal duties. This duty is set out in regulation 7 of the Management of Health and Safety at Work Regulations 1999, which applies in Great Britain.
If a serious incident happened tomorrow, could you demonstrate that you had competent advice and acted on the risks?
Don’t wait for an incident to expose gaps in your arrangements. Be clear about who provides competent support, what needs attention and what action has been taken.
HSE guidance on appointing a competent person · Read regulation 7
THE BASIC PACKAGE
Annual audit. Named consultant.
Our basic competent person package brings together these two elements. Your proposal defines the schools and sites covered, audit arrangements and consultant support.
A named consultant
A named professional to discuss your health and safety questions and help identify appropriate next steps. Contact arrangements and the scope of support are agreed in your proposal.
From around £100 + VAT per school per month.
For multi-school trusts: the basic annual health and safety audit and named consultant package. Contact us for a tailored quote.
Request a competent person quotePractical expertise for school leaders.
Our approach is led by Mark Ardron, a Chartered Safety and Health Practitioner and OSHCR-registered consultant. We help school and trust teams connect professional advice with practical decisions, clear responsibilities and follow-through.
About our approachFor an individual school or a wider trust.
Individual schools
Support for headteachers, school business managers and premises teams. Tell us about your school, existing arrangements and the issues you want to address so we can agree the right scope.
Academy trusts and MATs
Support for central teams and school leaders across your trust. We agree which schools and sites are covered and how the audit and named consultant arrangements fit your organisation.
Explore academy trust supportRemote support is available nationally. Site visits are easiest to arrange in the South East and Cumbria, with delivery and travel arrangements agreed in advance.
Make safety management easier to organise.
Policies, incident records and outstanding actions can become another workload alongside budgets, staffing and premises. We can help you organise the management system and follow-through, so it is clearer what needs doing, who is responsible and what has been recorded.
A connected management system
Bring policies, procedures, responsibilities and actions into a consistent structure. Link documents to the way your school works and make ownership and progress easier to review.
Accident investigations
Get support gathering the facts, examining immediate and underlying causes, and identifying corrective actions. Connect findings to action owners and follow-up rather than leaving the incident report as the end of the process.
RIDDOR management support
Help assessing whether an incident is reportable, identifying the responsible person, understanding the reporting process and keeping appropriate records. Reporting responsibility remains with the relevant responsible person under RIDDOR.
Management-system work, accident investigations and RIDDOR management support are scoped and quoted in your proposal as needed, separately from the basic annual audit and named consultant package.
Request a competent person quoteWIDER SERVICES AVAILABLE
More support when you need it.
Alongside the basic package, we offer the services below. Additional work is scoped and quoted as needed; it is not automatically included in the basic package.
Fire risk assessments
Fire risk assessments and practical fire safety support for school premises.
Explore fire safetyPolicies and safety management
School-ready policies, procedures and practical templates linked to your arrangements and responsibilities.
Explore safety managementIncident investigation
Support with assessing incidents, investigating causes, reporting questions and learning from findings.
Explore incident supportSchool safety training
Training for leaders, managers and staff, with content and delivery agreed around their roles.
Explore trainingLeadership support
Reviews of safety governance, responsibilities, oversight and the evidence of follow-through.
Explore Leadership ProtectionHOW TO GET STARTED
A clear scope before you commit.
1. Tell us about your organisation
Share your school or trust name, number of schools or sites, locations and current support arrangements.
2. Discuss your priorities
Start with a free, no-obligation Teams call to discuss the basic package and any wider services you need.
3. Review your proposal
Review the audit coverage, consultant arrangements, any additional work and cost before work begins.
Know what your package covers.
What is included in the basic competent person package?
An annual health and safety audit and a named consultant. Your proposal defines coverage, audit arrangements and the scope of consultant support for your school or trust.
Does a trust package cover every school?
We agree which schools and sites are covered in your proposal. Tell us the size and locations of your trust so we can scope the arrangements appropriately.
Can we add fire safety, training or other services?
Yes. We can discuss the wider services shown above and scope and quote additional work as needed. Your proposal distinguishes the basic package from any additional services.
Does appointing a consultant transfer our responsibilities?
No. External advice supports your organisation’s management of health and safety. It does not transfer the employer’s responsibilities.
How much does it cost?
Contact us to discuss your school or trust and the support required. We provide a proposal with the scope and cost agreed before work begins.
LET’S TALK
Request a competent person quoteDiscuss competent person support.
Tell us about your school or trust and the support you need.