Practical health and safety support and consultancy for organisations that need more than paperwork. At Oracle Safety we help organisations develop systems, policies and procedures that work in practice, stand up legally and can be sustained by their own managers and staff. A list of our core services consultancy is outlined below:
Legal compliance, audit and director support
Independent advice to help directors and senior managers understand legal duties, areas of exposure and what needs to change.
- Health and safety audits
- Legal compliance reviews
- Director and senior manager advice
- ISO 45001 gap analysis
- Retained competent person support
- Due diligence and independent assurance
Policies and management systems
Development and review of practical policies, procedures and arrangements built around Plan–Do–Check–Act.
- Health and safety policy
- Risk assessment policy and procedure
- Permit to work procedure
- Contractor management procedure
- Lone working procedure
- Driving for work procedure
- DSE procedure
- Manual handling procedure
- Emergency arrangements and response
- Violence and aggression procedure
- Drugs and alcohol procedure
- Monitoring, inspection and audit arrangements
- ISO 45001 management systems
Risk assessment systems and competence
Helping organisations create risk assessment systems that are practical, legally defensible and capable of being used consistently.
- Risk assessment forms and templates
- Risk assessment methodology
- Risk scoring and ALARP criteria
- Hazard prompt lists and guidance
- Assessor competence standards
- Review of existing risk assessments
- Suitable and sufficient assurance
- Development of action plans and controls
Safe systems of work and permit to work
Clear systems for controlling high-risk work and ensuring critical controls are in place before work starts.
- Safe systems of work
- Method statements
- Permit to work systems
- Hot work permits
- Confined space permits
- Isolation and lock-off procedures
- Work at height controls
- Maintenance shutdown planning
- Simultaneous operations control
- Permit audits and review
Contractor management and CDM
Helping organisations manage contractor risk and meet their duties under CDM 2015.
- Contractor management systems
- Contractor pre-qualification
- RAMS review
- Contractor monitoring and supervision
- CDM 2015 advice
- Client duties
- Principal Designer support
- Construction phase plans
- Contractor interface management
Training and competence frameworks
Training and workshops designed to support the systems and procedures used within your organisation.
- Risk assessment training
- Permit to work training
- Supervisor training
- Manager workshops
- Toolbox talks and briefings
- Competence frameworks
- Bespoke in-company training
While these are our core areas of work, we also develop and review policies, procedures and arrangements for many other health and safety topics, tailored to the needs of each organisation. If you do not see the area you need listed, please get in touch.
Our Consultancy Engagement Methods
Every organisation needs something different. Some need an independent review of a specific issue. Others need help designing and implementing a complete system. We work flexibly, from short, focused pieces of advice through to longer-term projects and retained consultancy support, depending on the scale of the problem and the level of help required.
Our Knowledge Hub pages also set out some of the operational methods, principles, and approaches that underpin our consultancy work, providing practical insight into how we address governance, risk control, permit to work systems, contractor management, and wider safety management challenges in practice, alongside relevant regulatory guidance published by the HSE.
Short engagement
Diagnostic review
Scoped assessment against statutory duties, producing a findings report with clear recommendations.
Project work
System design and build
Permit systems, policies, procedures, risk assessment frameworks – designed to be implemented and maintained by your own people.
Problem-solving
Troubleshooting and recovery
When systems have drifted, failed, or attracted regulatory attention. Stabilise risk, identify what’s broken, rebuild control.
Short-form support
Technical advice and sounding-board
For safety managers and duty-holders navigating a specific problem – HSE enforcement, a contentious risk decision, post-incident clarity.
Who we work with
We work with organisations across manufacturing, construction, engineering, food production, logistics, facilities management, media, consultancy and international operations. Clients typically come to us when they need more than a generic policy or a tick-box audit. They want arrangements that work in practice, can be implemented by their own people and stand up to legal, operational and commercial scrutiny.
Want safety that stands up to scrutiny?
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