Health and safety |
AXA insurance is a leader in risk management, with many years' experience helping large and small businesses to identify and minimise risks to their operations from start up onwards.
All businesses benefit from effective health and safety policies. AXA's health and safety guides give small business owners vital information about their health and safety obligations. Featuring risk analysis, health and safety training and small business protection, risk management like this could reduce your business insurance costs.
To help you create a safe working environment within your business, AXA has a wide range of practical guidance available to you at the click of a button.
Risk assessment for small businesses
From identifying hazards and risks and the requirements of both, to recording, reviews and consultation, AXA's handy guide gives practical help in the preparation of a risk assessment to ensure heath and safety regulations are followed in your small business.
Preparing basic health and safety policies for small businesses
Thinking ahead about potential accidents in the workplace goes a long way towards helping to prevent them. This guide can help with risk analysis, risk control and gives guidance on completing a written health and safety assessment – a requirement for any business with five or more employees.
Health and safety communication for small businesses
AXA's guide can help you to produce exceptionally clear and comprehensive health and safety information for your small business. In this guide you'll also find useful information about consultation with your workforce, and how to act on any problems identified.
Accident reporting and investigation
Although you take care to prevent them, accidents can happen in any small business premises. The information in this guide can help you report and investigate accidents, giving direction on legal requirements, health and safety regulations, how to maintain an accident book, and more.
Guide to monitoring health and safety for small businesses
Small business owners must be able to measure and assess the effectiveness of their health and safety policy. AXA's guide can help you to monitor the impact on your business costs, employee morale and legal objectives of the implementation of your health and safety policy.
Guide to health and safety training for small businesses
In businesses of any size, all employees need health and safety training. This useful guide from AXA helps small business owners with risk analysis to set out the responsibilities for staff and to assess and provide the training required.
Guide to manual handling assessments for small businesses
The Health and Safety Executive shows that a quarter of all accidents at work happen in connection with manual handling. Proper training in lifting and carrying, risk assessment and risk control can reduce accidents in your workplace.
Hazardous substances
From industrial chemicals to simple cleaning materials, many small businesses are exposed to harmful substances each day. AXA can guide you in understanding the risk, controls and training you need to observe to protect yourself and others.
Health and safety in groundworks and excavations
Useful and informative, AXA's guide can help small businesses with the hazards and risks posed by excavations and groundworks. It provides valuable risk management help on risk assessment, excavation inspections, ground conditions and more.
Personal protective equipment guide
This guide looks at how personal protective equipment should be used to protect employees who are exposed to risks that can't be eliminated or controlled by other means.
Guide to cleaning and housekeeping for small businesses
A practical guide on what steps small businesses can take to ensure the health and safety of all employees and maintain the workplace in a safe condition, which includes adequate cleaning and housekeeping arrangements.
Please note: All guides are to be used for reference only and the information they contain may not be suitable for all businesses.
Business insurance for consultants. Insurance for entrepreneurs, Insurance for professionals. Insurance for small business owners. Whether you're a major company or a micro SME, business insurance from AXA is the easy and affordable way for you to enhance your health and safety policy and help to keep your employees protected and for you to secure your business premises.
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