Health and safety training

Birchtree Consultants can provide training in safety management for staff at all levels of your organisation; we specialise in health & safety training for the research environment.

General training in health and safety management is often unhelpful in the context of scientific research. Whilst regulations have to be observed in all workplaces, guidance is usually based on industrial situations which may be very different from those in a research laboratory or field site. For example, an industry is likely to use a few substances in large quantity whereas laboratories might use many more substances but in very small amounts. Procedures in industry may stay largely unchanged over long periods whereas scientific research will, by definition, be opening up new procedures regularly.

We have wide experience in the research environment and extensive experience in training scientific management in the requirements of health and safety. We specialise in streamlining the risk assessment systems to enable scientists to work safely with focused, relevant risk management.

Birchtree Consultants have developed a series of courses based on HSG 65 - Successful Health and Safety Management.

• Safety for Directors in a Research Environment, and
• Safety Management in a Research Environment

are accredited by IOSH and are of one and, two and a half days duration respectively.

• Safety Responsibilities for staff in a Research Environment, and
• Risk Management for staff in a Research Environment

are not accredited and are each of four hours duration.

Birchtree Consultants have developed further courses entitled:

• COSHH Assessment in a Research Environment
• Understanding and use of Safety Data Sheets
• Manual handling awareness

For information on standard IOSH courses, such as, Working Safely and Managing Safely please go to www.healthandsafetysolutionsltd.co.uk