Solar PV Health & Safety Consultants
Solar Panels Health and Safety Consultants
Universal Safety Practitioners (USP) is a leading health and safety consultancy firm specialising in solar farm health and safety services. Our expert health and safety consultants work across Sussex, Surrey, Oxfordshire, Kent, Durham, London, East Anglia, the Cotswolds and across the UK including Devon, Portsmouth, Brighton, and Worthing.
With our extensive industry experience, including in renewable energy, we are best placed to provide comprehensive, best-in-class solar health and safety support for businesses of all sizes.
Our Solar Farm Health and Safety Services
USP understand fully the challenges and intricacies of planning and managing renewables projects including Solar/PV projects. We are recognised as one of the leading Health and Safety Consultancy organisations when it comes to renewable project Health and Safety management, with over 15 years’ experience in this diverse and growing sector.
Broadly speaking, USP offers a number of professional, industry-leading services to the renewables sector; including Principal Designer and Project Health and Safety Advisor services, ensuring our clients are totally supported across elements of project planning and construction phase Health and Safety management.
More specifically, our core services include:
CDM (Construction Design and Management) Principal Designer services
- Pre-construction phase, planning management and monitoring including the creation of the Pre-construction information pack
- Working with the wider project professional team, creating the Health and Safety Design Risk Registers
- Supporting the professional team where construction phase design changes occur
- Supporting the Principal Contractor during the construction phase on high-level project governance issues
Project Health and Safety Advisor
- Creation of a number of vital documents for the project, including Fire Risk Assessments, Emergency Response Planning, Traffic Management Plans, Environmental Management Plans including Environmental impact assessments Induction Information
- Risk Assessment creation on behalf of the Principal Contractor including, logistics/materials handling, major site hazards GS6 overhead power lines, first aid risk assessments
- Toolbox talk development and roll-out, additional on-site training and support
- Regular site inspection and corrective action close-out
- Investigation and reporting process, as well as support on action close-out
- Administering and management of permit to work systems, including permit-to-dig, electrical isolation permits
- Reviewing of sub-contractors’ risk assessments and method statements
- Occupational health and safety systems including noise and vibration assessments and reports
Our highly professional and experienced consultancy team believe in a ‘hands-on’ and ‘can do’ approach, giving ultimate levels of support to all members of the professional team, ensuring an effective, proactive and pragmatic approach to health and safety management at all times.
When is The Right Time to Engage the Principal Designer?
The truth is, you need to make the appointment of a Principal Designer as soon as the project is given the go-ahead. The Construction (Design and Management) Regulations 2015 (CDM) gives advice on the appointments.
The appointment can either be made direct by the client or on the client’s behalf. Making an early or timely appointment also ensures Principal Designers have the time to gather all required information for the project. They will use this to build several very important controls including ongoing survey for ecology, geology and other important governance points such as unexploded ordnance, overhead and underground service surveys, as well as traffic management plans including routes of delivery and removal where sensitive areas and villages are concerned.
What Does the Design Risk Analysis Do?
The Design Risk Analysis (DRA) process is invaluable to the wider CDM governance and risk management process for the project. The DRA process involves the Principal Designer working with the Architects, Designers and other Engineers to identify risks brought about by the projects design, ensuring that these are tracked and mitigated wherever possible, enabling the project to be undertaken safely and with these risks being effectively managed.
Do I need a Project Health and Safety Advisor for Enabling Works?
Yes! The appointment of a Project Health and Safety Advisor (whether full time or visiting) should always be achieved for the enabling works on projects. Remembering that these works are the very early stages of the project. Efficient, safe and well managed projects invariably start well, which is due majorly to setting good health and safety standards at the beginning of the project, especially during the enabling works.
Are Welfare Facilities Different for Solar PV Projects?
The fundamental principles of welfare provision do not change between Solar/PV projects and any other construction project. However, the positioning and ease of access for effective welfare facilities by Solar PV installation teams and contractors will dictate where these facilities are sited. Remembering that many large Solar/PV projects are remote in their siting, as well as spreading for hectares (hundreds, in some cases), it is vital that all site personnel can access proportionate welfare facilities effectively, sometimes a good distance from the main site compound.
Why Choose Universal Safety Practitioners?
At USP, we pride ourselves on our core principles:
- Dedicated attention to each client’s unique needs;
- Pragmatic solutions to complex safety challenges;
- Seamless integration with your project teams;
- Transparent and responsible consulting practices; and
- Our extensive range of project expertise in some of the most challenging of environments.
Our extensive experience across the renewable energy sector – as well as all other construction industry environments – positions us uniquely as the ideal partner for your Solar/PV project Whether you’re managing a small rooftop installation or overseeing a large-scale solar farm, USP has the expertise, qualifications and organisational capabilities to ensure your projects are safe, compliant, and proportionately managed from a Health and Safety standpoint.
Contact USP today to learn how we can support your solar energy projects with our comprehensive health and safety consulting services.
Speak to Our Expert Team Today
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Central Leisure Developments has worked with USP and in particular with Kevin Kerin for several years now to obtain all of our health and safety requirements across a broad range of exhibition projects from on-site installation to workshop safety. His knowledge and understanding of our practices and working methods ensure that all documentation is not only accurate but informative to all our staff. Time is not always on our side with the projects but we can rely on Kevin and the USP team to produce the documentation we need on time and in full every time, I would highly recommend Kevin and his team at USP to anyone’s business.
Central Leisure Developments Ltd
USP have provided us with Health and Safety advice for many years now, including issuing our Health and Safety Policies and Procedures and carrying out Sit Safety Audits. They have taken the stress out of trying to keep up to date with all new legislations and they always provide us with a common-sense approach to incorporating any changes into our policies.
Kevin does not only cover all matters of Health & Safety; he also helps us generate new business and helps with all the legal jargon that comes with it. We would certainly be lost without his support, and he is always at the end of the phone. Kevin will always strive to assist with whatever the query and is a pleasure to work with.
We are delighted with his endeavours and no-nonsense approach and would happily recommend USP services to others.
Solent Interiors Ltd
We have been using Universal Safety Practitioners Limited’s excellent, efficient and cost-effective services for a number of years. They have provided us with excellent and speedy support and guidance on all matters of Health and Safety and related matters. We would highly recommend to others, their knowledge, skills and application in all aspects of company safety.
