Independent Health and Safety Consultancy, UK

Silk offers tailor-made consultancy services to seamlessly integrate or update safety management systems into your existing practices and operational risk levels.

Our approach aims to saves you time, trouble, and stress.

Our team of health and safety consultants boasts extensive expertise and in-depth knowledge of relevant legislation. With years of experience, we interpret regulations to make them easily understandable and applicable to your business.

Key Health & Safety Consulting Services at Silk :

• Health and Safety Management Systems: Tailored systems to streamline safety processes and ensure compliance.
• ISO (quality, safety, and environmental) systems – more than a tick box exercise, find out why clients want you to have these. We can show you how to use them effectively and grow your business with a deeper level of understanding.
• SSIP:  We can help if you need to gain accreditation to SSIP schemes including CHAS, etc.
• Occupational Health: Services to safeguard employee health and well-being in the workplace.
• Occupational Health: Services to safeguard employee health and well-being in the workplace.
• Auditing: Comprehensive assessments to identify potential risks and areas for improvement.

Your Safety, Our Priority: Tailored Solutions for Lasting Partnerships.

We believe in solutions that prioritise safety, quality, and sustainability.

Contact us to help navigate the complexities of modern business while staying true to your values and objectives. Ask us about our new Advocate programme. An invaluable support service that will leave your teams more agile to do their work with less complication.

Extensive experience of applying the CDM regulations for all dutyholders.  Whether you’re a client, designer, or contractor, fulfilling these obligations demands ensuing you have the right level of expertise, skills and knowledge.  Following the Building Safety Act this is more important than ever.

By engaging an impartial third-party entity like Silk, you ensure compliance with regulatory requirements without compromise. Our team offers invaluable assistance in navigating your duties, guaranteeing timely and thorough fulfilment of legal requirements.

• Specialist CDM advise and dutyholder support.
• Client CDM Advisor
• Principal Designer CDM
• Designer support
• Principal Contractor support
• Trade Contractor support
• Compilation of construction site packs and construction plans

Whether it’s large-scale frameworks, specialist buildings, or smaller-scale bespoke developments; our experience spans diverse sectors, underscoring our commitment to excellence in construction safety.

Our experience includes working on:

• Large-scale estate redevelopments
• Minor M&E upgrades
• New build industrial data centres
• Listed buildings.
• Aviation frameworks
• Local authority frameworks including NHS estates.
• Energy and renewables commissions such as wind farms and PV Arrays
• Higher education, residential and retail developments
• Demolition and urban and social development programmes

With Silk by your side, you can confidently navigate the complexities of CDM Regulations, safeguarding your business against regulatory pitfalls.

ISO Consultants – Systems Practitioners

At Silk, we understand the importance of Safety, Health, Environment, and Quality (SHEQ) in business operations. Our Lead Auditor qualified consultants are familiar with a fully integrated management approach, this means less time and reduced cost impact on the business.

The Three Most Sought-After Management Systems

The three most sought-after systems are ISO 14001, ISO 45001 (formerly OHSAS 18001), and ISO 9001. By merging these standards, organisations can consolidate their processes into a unified framework, enhancing effectiveness and simplicity. ISO standards provide a structured approach to managing various aspects of business. ISO 14001 focuses on environmental management, ISO 45001 on occupational health and safety, and ISO 9001 on quality management. Each standard is designed to help organisations achieve specific objectives while ensuring compliance with legal requirements.

Benefits of ISO System Integration

Integrating ISO 14001, ISO 45001, and ISO 9001 offers numerous benefits:

• Client appeal: Clients that use your services expect their suppliers to have these accredited standards to protect their business.
• Reduced Redundancies: Streamlining systems eliminates duplication of efforts.
• Cost Savings: Integrated systems require fewer resources for audits and operations.
• Consistency: A unified approach ensures uniformity across all aspects of the organisation.
• Equal Importance: All three standards are equally prioritised, fostering balanced management.
• Improved Communication: Integration promotes better information flow within the organisation.

Training

We are proudly committed to lifelong learning and mentoring within our field of expertise. At Silk, we do this by offering a wide range of industry-recognised accredited training for your organisation.

New training courses are always under development. If you need bespoke training, talk to us, we can help, not all solutions can come from an off-the-shelf package.

Check our training page for access to a range of courses no matter what your business.

Bespoke Services

As a natural extension of our services, we can provide support with audit programmes for UK roll-outs, business and operational level or targeted projects. We can also help businesses meet their KPI’s and SHEQ objectives by developing bespoke audit programmes that are truly functional and specific to business activities and the systems they need to operate within. Dashboard reporting is a regular function of our audits to interpret and demonstrate results and help target areas for improvement or further development.

Safety Schemes in Procurement (SSIP)

Developers, clients, government departments, public bodies, large contractors and others who procure design and construction services routinely prefer to use SSIP accredited providers when making selections for service delivery on projects.

CHAS, Constructionline and Achilles are examples of SSIP member schemes that expect assessments to be completed. SSIP assessments are judged on core criteria approved by the HSE.

Silk Safety Ltd is ideally placed to help businesses gain these accreditations and ensure processes are in place to help maintain them.