Here at Groundwork we realise that companies using our legislation update service tend to do so as part of an environmental or health & safety management system like ISO 14001 or BS OHSAS 18001.
We also know your time is precious, and whilst the Legislation Update Service is an excellent time saving tool, support with legal audits, completion of the legal registers and implementation of other elements of a management system are all areas that Groundwork can help with.
As a national organisation we are well placed to provide consultancy support for all elements of your systems implementation, maintenance or auditing.
Legal Review
In order to ensure that your register of environmental or health & safety legislation contains all the relevant laws to exactly match the requirements of your activities, products and processes, we can arrange a site visit to take you through all applicable legislation in your legal register.
This will provide you with the confidence to know that your legal register has been reviewed by a competent professional, and give you the knowledge to manage your own legal register in the future.
Even if you are new to the Legislation Update Service, or have an existing legal register that you would like to upgrade to our online service, our team will provide you with advice, guidance and confidence that your legal register meets yours and your auditor’s requirements.
Legal Compliance Audit
As more companies look to implement management systems for environment and / or health & safety, the sections covering legal compliance can often be a daunting one. In addition to our legal update services, we can also provide a full onsite legal compliance audit service.
Having a compliance audit by an independent third party will enable you to identify any areas of improvement and give you the opportunity to work on them prior to a certification audit.
Certification bodies are placing increasing importance on how a company can demonstrate compliance of legislation, rather than just awareness. A legal compliance audit will give you the reassurance to know that you are complying in all areas of applicable legislation.
Aspects / Impacts and Hazard Identification Registers
For organisations implementing, or with an established management system like ISO14001 or 18001, one of the most fundamental steps of a system is to identify your organisation’s environmental aspects or health and safety hazards. It is the basis of this that allows you to set your objectives, targets and programmes which form the core of your system.
Our legal register tools allow you to easily build these aspects into a register which links to applicable legislation, but if you would like further assistance with the identification of aspects or hazards, Groundwork can offer this onsite service.
We will determine based on a site visit where your organisations aspects or hazards are, then formulate these into an aspects register – linking in applicable legislation that relates to these aspects.
Management Systems Implementation
We recognise that for the majority of companies looking to produce an environment or health & safety legal register, this is just one cog (albeit an important one!) within the larger wheel of a management system.
Groundwork has many years experience of helping to implement management systems for environment and health & safety like ISO14001 or BS OHSAS18001 into companies of all sizes.
Our philosophy is to guide you through the implementation process, rather than provide you with an ‘off the shelf’ system, so that on completion you have full ownership of your own system and fully understand the steps that have been taken to achieve it.
For a quotation or more information about our consultancy services, please contact us on 01254 265163 or business.services@gwpl.co.uk.