As a Payaro customer you can benefit from Harrier’s expertise and Health and Safety knowledge too.
Harrier is a health and safety organisation that offers bespoke services to small businesses, sole-traders and venues. The Harrier team offers a face to face service and on-site support alongside online training and event documentation and planning. Harrier simplifies Health & safety and strengthens businesses as a result.
Why is safety important?
People are the lifeblood of every business, keeping your people, staff, employees safe and healthy has numerous benefits including staff retention, fewer sick days and less time off due to injury or illness. The benefits keep coming, health and safety can increase efficiency, lower costs and overall contribute to a happy and healthy workforce. Happy and healthy staff are very likely to be more productive. Increasing knowledge and skills and improving working practices has many benefits. Good Health & Safety can strengthen your business.
There are a number of reasons to ensure that the Health & Safety aspects of your business are up to date, relevant and understood:
Moral reasons
- Keeping customers safe
- Keeping employees safe
- You’ll want your workplace to be somewhere you would feel comfortable to send your friends and family to work in
Financial reasons
- Makes your business more efficient
- Helps to defend personal injury claims (claims can increase insurance premiums)
- Reduces lost working time, sickness absence
Legal reasons
- Everyone has duties under health and safety regulations
- Good policies and procedures can help with compliance
- You can be investigated by the HSE, Local Authority or Fire Service
People often ask how to ensure they can be profitable while enlisting health and safety, some envisage restrictions and regulations will impinge on productivity or a great experience. Sometimes people ask what should I focus on? I can’t take my eye off the bottom line. Experience shows us that doing the right thing by staff and customers results in a more efficient business, a safer environment, lower staff turnover, happier customers and increased revenues.
Who is responsible?
A key thing to remember is that safety is everyone’s responsibility, it’s the responsibility of the business owner, management and employees.
What does my business need?
Health & Safety policy – this sets out how you are going to manage Health & Safety in your business
Risk Assessments – they identify hazards within your business and what you are going to do to reduce the risk of them harming your employees and customers
If you have more than five employees you must write down your policy and risk assessments. They still need to be put in place if you have less than five employees. It is always good practice to have them written down.
Fire Risk Assessment – if you have premises (leased or owned) you should have a fire risk assessment completed by a competent person
Training – you should make sure your staff have suitable training to complete their roles safely this should include fire safety and manual handling as a minimum
Proactive Safety Monitoring – check sheets or safety inspections to monitor the safety measures you have put in place
Why work with Harrier?
We firmly believe in putting people first and enjoy creating spaces where people can work, be entertained and have fun safely. Our team will work with yours to jointly pull together a bespoke plan to ensure your office, workspace, building, venue or facility has the health and safety of your employees, staff and customers at its heart.
Paperwork is not just a tick box exercise; we make sure that it accurately reflects your business and is operationally useful. It will help implement procedures and processes that in turn will help to reduce the risk of harm or ill health to employees, customers and the public. Harrier will work with you to ensure that your paperwork is correct for your business and adds value.
Exclusive packages for Payaro customers
As a Payaro customer you are entitled to excusive Harrier packages at reduced rates. These packages include many of the Health & Safety essentials to strengthen your business.
| Gold | Silver | Bronze | |
| Bespoke health and safety policy | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Template pack* | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Health & safety support via telephone and email (8.30am – 5.30pm, Monday – Friday)** | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| 10 x risk assessments | Yes | No | No |
| Fire risk assessment | Yes | No | No |
| Discount for online training courses | 25% | 15% | 15% |
| Workplace inspection with follow up report | 1 per year | No | No |
| Newsletter with safety updates and changes to legislation | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Site visits to proactively or reactively manage safety issues | POA | POA | POA |
| COST | £XX | £XX | £XX |
*Includes risk assessments template, COSHH assessment template, DSE self-assessments, standard check sheets, fire evacuation plan. All templates to be completed/amended by client to be suitable and sufficient for their business
**Support is limited to advice only, with a 15 minute maximum time limit per query. Additional time or work required will be charged at the additional consultancy rates.
Additional consultancy costs
Day rate £450 per 8-hour day
Hourly rate £65 per hour, minimum 2 hour call
Travel charged at 45p where applicable
All rates are exclusive of VAT.