Your appointed competent person
Expert health and safety support on call, without the cost of a full-time hire. One named consultant, SafetyNerd included, from £150 a month.
Every employer shall … appoint one or more competent persons to assist him in undertaking the measures he needs to take to comply with the requirements and prohibitions imposed upon him by or under the relevant statutory provisions.
In plain EnglishYou need someone with the right knowledge and experience helping you get health and safety right. If nobody in the business has that, you can bring someone in. That's us.
What's included
One monthly fee that covers your competent person and SafetyNerd. Anything extra is quoted before we start, so you always know the price first.
- Formal appointment as your competent person under Regulation 7, with an appointment letter
- The same named consultant every time, who gets to know your business
- Unlimited messages, answered by the next working day
- Incident and near miss reporting, with RIDDOR guidance
- Extra help, like document reviews and site visits, quoted before we start
- SafetyNerd software: documents, actions, incidents, COSHH and your compliance calendar in one place
- Optional modules for risk assessments, inspections, training records and assets
- A phone app for your team to do checks, report and sign, £3 per person a month
- Updates when the law or guidance changes
- Support with HSE and local authority enquiries
Not just advice. A system to run it.
Every package comes with SafetyNerd, our health and safety software. You and your team use it day to day; we use it to see what's coming up and help before it goes wrong.
Who it suits
Small and growing firms
You've got a team now, but not enough work to justify a full-time health and safety manager.
Contractors and trades
Clients and main contractors are asking for policies, RAMS and a named competent person.
Firms with an in-house lead
Someone looks after safety alongside their day job and needs an expert to lean on.
Every industry. Here are a few.
Over 10 years in health and safety, across every industry. If people work there, we can help: these are just some of the sectors we work in most.
Building and trades
Builders, plumbers, electricians, joiners and contractors
And everything in between: retail, offices, facilities management, education and childcare, charities and community and more. Tell us what you do.
Food and FMCG
Food production, packing and fast-moving consumer goods
And everything in between: retail, offices, facilities management, education and childcare, charities and community and more. Tell us what you do.
Transport and logistics
Fleets, yards, warehousing and distribution
And everything in between: retail, offices, facilities management, education and childcare, charities and community and more. Tell us what you do.
Manufacturing
Workshops, machinery and production lines
And everything in between: retail, offices, facilities management, education and childcare, charities and community and more. Tell us what you do.
Hospitality
Kitchens, cafés, pubs and hotels
And everything in between: retail, offices, facilities management, education and childcare, charities and community and more. Tell us what you do.
Offices and services
Offices, retail, education and facilities
And everything in between: retail, offices, facilities management, education and childcare, charities and community and more. Tell us what you do.
Honest reviews, not tick-boxes
Send us your risk assessment, fire risk assessment or construction phase plan, and this is what comes back.
These are document reviews. You send us a document you already have, and we check it and tell you honestly where it stands. We don't carry out the assessment itself.
You send us your risk assessment. This comes back.
A real review of a risk assessment a small plumbing and building firm sent us, with their details removed. We don't rewrite it: we check it, with a scorecard, a typical job put to the test, findings, an evidence list and a clear order of next steps.
Common questions
Do I legally need a competent person?
Yes. Regulation 7 of the Management of Health and Safety at Work Regulations 1999 requires every employer to appoint one or more competent persons to help them comply with health and safety law.
Can I be my own competent person?
Yes, if you have enough training, experience and knowledge for the risks in your business. The law actually prefers someone in your own business where they're competent. If nobody is, you can appoint someone external.
How much does it cost?
Core is £150 a month for your competent person and the SafetyNerd software. Add software modules and staff logins as you need them; there's no VAT to add. The builder on our pricing page works out your exact price.
How often will you visit?
As often as your work needs. Site visits are booked when you need them, and quoted before we start.
Do you do one-off consultancy work?
No. We're a competent person service. Extra work like fire risk assessments, audits and new risk assessments is available as an add-on to clients on one of our packages, so it always builds on what we already know about your business.
How does CDM support work?
CDM projects are £195 a month, either added to Core or as a plan on its own if you only need help with a building project.
Will you rewrite all our documents?
Not unless they need it. We start by reviewing what you've already got, keep what's working, and fix or replace what isn't.
What happens if HSE or the council gets in touch?
Call us. As your competent person we'll help you respond, pull together the evidence they ask for and put right anything they raise.
Need a competent person?
Book a free compliance check and we'll recommend the package that fits.
- Same consultant every time
- Software included
- Fixed monthly fee