Architects and Designers | Bernard Sims Associates

The HSE has identified Design consideration - meaning both architecture and project design, as having the greatest potential to affect health & safety. BSA can help ensure that designers identify and manage out risk from the start.

You may need:

Pre Construction Health & Safety Plans

Pre Construction Health & Safety Plans at the design stage. [See Services > CDM Coordinators].

Risk Assessments

Risk Assessments that highlight and enable management of risks for a particular project. [See Services > CDM Coordinators].

Knowledge of risk

Knowledge of the sorts of risk - falls from height, musculoskeletal injury, chemicals etc [See Services > CDM Coordinators].

Insight into HSE expectations

Insight into HSE expectations and your duties as a designer [See Services > CDM Coordinators].

Ideas to help manage risk

Ideas to help manage risk by elimination, reduction, identification and control during construction and use - Coupled with cost saving and quality enhancing - for example prefabrication in a factory can allow better quality assurance control and reduce time on site. Another example is locating or specifying light fittings that can be maintained without recourse to ladders or towers over stairwells. [See Services > CDM Coordinators].

CDM Coordinators

CDM Coordinators when necessary under the CDM Regulations (for construction or refurbishment projects) [See Services > CDM Coordinators].

To alert Duty Holders

To Alert Duty Holders under the CDM Regulations [See Services > CDM Coordinators].

Party Wall surveying services

Party Wall surveying services when the Party Wall etc Act applies [See Services > Party Wall Matters].

Competency assessments

Competency assessments for Designers, Principal Contractors / sub-contractors / client directs [See Services > Assessments of Contractors].

Internal H&S Audit

To ensure your own Health & Safety management systems are robust [See Services > Health & Safety Advisors].

Site Inspections

Site Inspections and reports [See Services > Health & Safety Advisors].

Help with an HSE CDM Compliance Check

Help with a HSE CDM Compliance Check presentation [See Services > CDM Coordinators].

Help with specific incidents

Specific incidents [See Services > Health & Safety Advisors].

Health & Safety Training

Training is a key element of Health & Safety: We offer training from First Aider qualifications and refreshers to Site Inductions, Scaffold Appreciation and Accident Investigation. [See Services > Training].

An early appointment of BSA can increase the options available.

For further information - please call Bernard Sims Associates on 01483 467270 or e-mail bsims@bsims.co.uk