Risk Assessment

Risk Assessment

Cold Weather at Work

Jan 8, 2026

The law does require employers to provide a reasonable working environment, including temperature, as part of their health and safety duties

What is a Risk Assessment and how is it Carried Out?

Dec 11, 2025

A risk assessment is a structured process to help you identify and manage health and safety risks in the workplace

Supporting Compliance During Business Growth for a Food Supplement Manufacturer

Jul 24, 2025

As part of their business expansion, a food supplement manufacturer needed to review and strengthen their Health & Safety and Fire Safety compliance, including updating their risk assessments, and reviewing and refreshing existing Health & Safety policies.

Firefighter says e-bike battery blaze could have been ‘much worse’ as calls grow for regulation

Dec 5, 2023

A firefighter has spoken of the moment he arrived at a property engulfed by flames after an e-bike battery exploded, as calls grow for the government to crack down on the devices.

Fire Risk Assessment, Fire Evacuation and Fire Marshal Training for Sawmill

Nov 1, 2021

The Timber saw mill company had only an in-house Fire risk assessment and understood that it didn’t adequately cover the fire risks of the business. They contacted Safewell for a Fire risk assessment from a competent Fire Risk assessor to identify what they needed to do to ensure the premises and also staff training was compliant for the fire risks that they had.

URA, Safety policy and employees instruction manual for a wine and alcohol bottling and wholesale company

Oct 19, 2021

The company were not impressed with the lack of information, commitment and effort they were receiving from their previous H&S provider. They wanted someone to work with them closely and understand the needs of the company.

Coronavirus: Lone Working

May 15, 2020

If you are still working during this period, you must still follow government guidelines around social distancing. Ensure you carry out a risk assessment and take reasonable measures to protect lone workers!

Pneumonia from welding and Metal fumes

Nov 18, 2019

A continuation of the Safewell article “Are welding fumes cancerous?” article: the HSE has issued further guidelines on Pneumonia vaccinations to help prevent and control exposure to welding fumes and related respiratory conditions.

Manual handling solutions for a National Luxury Furniture Retail Company

Jul 15, 2019

A Furniture Retail Company requested Safewell to carry out showroom risk assessments. Safewell identified potentially high manual handling risks for staff making/receiving deliveries and organising shop displays.

What are Hazards in the workplace?

Jul 1, 2019

Hazards are things that have the potential to cause injury or harm to people, or damage to the workplace. Understanding what hazards in the workplace are and how to protect people from them is fundamental to sensible health and safety.

What is Health and Safety in ICT?

Apr 2, 2019

Health and Safety in ICT (Information and Communications Technology) is mostly about understanding how to work safely with computers and environments with lots of technology equipment.

Are Welding Fumes Cancerous?

Mar 18, 2019

If you do any sort of MIG, TIG, oxy-acetylene or other types of welding then please read this article!

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Georgina Williams

April 20, 2022

John Williams Heating Services Ltd

We have worked with Safewell for many years and are retained clients, so we have developed an excellent working relationship with the team. However, this really came into its own when Covid 19 appeared.

As a Plumbing and Heating business, we were able to carry on working during the lockdown but only for responding to emergencies. We were obviously very concerned about the health and safety of our employees and before we even had chance to get in touch with Safewell, they had emailed us offering their assistance. It is hard to put down on paper how that made us feel - we like everyone else felt totally at sea, which way to turn, what to do? But Safewell were there guiding, supporting and being totally brilliant. Their attention to detail is very impressive and reassuring and we feel able to ask lots of questions without feeling silly.

During the pandemic Safewell helped us to write risk assessments, safety procedures and protocols. They kept in touch regularly, issuing new guidance as soon as it appeared and checking in with us. They held group Q&A sessions over Zoom which were helpful, and knowing other businesses were facing the same challenges and having the opportunity to discuss issues was invaluable. Their help during the preparation for a full return to work was brilliant, they enabled us to be fully prepared and feel in control, and when we had our first case of Covid within the team, because we had planned our response it felt ok.

I think our team felt very reassured by our robust approach and that our office was Covid secure.
We are extremely grateful to all the team at Safewell