Everyone would agree that maintaining a safe and healthy working environment is important. Not only is it a legal requirement under the Health and Safety at Work etc. Act 1974 but it is also commercially and morally the right thing to do. Work related injuries and illness cost money and increasingly contract tender conditions require that health and safety requirements are met.

As part of our determination to provide valuable services that members need, we at the Liverpool Chamber have arranged for members to have access to ChamberH&S from October 2007.

ChamberH&S has been developed by Qdos Consulting to provide members with a comprehensive health and safety solution delivered via a dedicated health and safety advice line and web site.

Specifically ChamberH&S offers:

• A Compliant Health and Safety Policy.
• Template organisational responsibilities and structures.
• Downloadable health and safety arrangements.
• Regular health and safety updates.
• Access to over 150 downloadable policies, forms, documents, templates and fact sheets.
• Unlimited access to a 24/7 health and safety advice line.
• Locally delivered on site health and safety training and consultancy.

It mirrors the readily available ChamberHR offering and is complementary to the existing Chamber Legal Expense scheme, therefore providing additional legal compliance “peace of mind” to subscribing members in the health and safety arena.

Members will be able to access the service utilising the existing ChamberHR username and password via the ChamberHR Website www.chamberhr.co.uk or direct www.chamberhs.co.uk.

Over the next few weeks, prior to the launch, we will be publishing a series of articles regarding Health & Safety including:

• Getting Started with H&S
• Slips, Trips & Falls
• Working At Heights
• Organisational Arrangements.

We will also publish full details of the H&S Service nearer to the launch.

If you have not received your ChamberHR website log in details or you are a new members and would like to register to use the service please contact the membership team by email at membership@liverpoolchamber.org.uk or by telephone on 0151 227 1234.