Staff Training

Training your employees helps to keep your business compliant and your employees competent.

Competence can be described as the combination of training, skills, experience and knowledge that a person has, and their ability to apply them to perform a task safely. Other factors, such as attitude and physical ability, can also affect someone’s competence.

As an employer, you should take account of the competence of employees as this will help you decide what level of information, instruction, training and supervision you need to provide.

At Positive Safety Solutions we pride ourselves on our service delivery and attention to detail, ensuring that our Clients achieve and maintain legal compliance, so that their staff and others are kept safe in the workplace and throughout the life of their projects.

Our CDM, Fire and Health & Safety Professionals are experienced across a range of industry sectors
including construction, heavy industry, oil and gas, energy generation, food manufacturing and pharmaceuticals, for private organisations, local government, and national government agencies.

Operating out of Cardiff, we cover all areas up to Birmingham in the West Midlands, down to Plymouth in the South West, from Pembrokeshire in West Wales and East along the M4 corridor to service your business needs efficiently and keep costs to a minimum.

Positive Safety Solutions offer:

Regulated qualifications from a number of awarding bodies such as ProQualAB and QNUK
Bespoke training courses in a variety of safety related topics
Online and face-to-face training delivery
A high-quality service delivered by a very experienced team of Health & Safety professionals, providing a wide range of knowledge and expertise

Fire Safety

Health & Safety

L1 Award in H&S in the Workplace
L2 Award in H&S in the workplace
L2 Award in Principles of Workplace Risk Assessment
L2 Award in Principles of Manual Handling
L2 Award in Principles of COSHH
L2 Award in Manual Handling of Loads at Work

Construction Safety

Course delivery

Managing Health & Safety is a necessity for your business’ moral, financial and legal reasons. However, having a robust and effective Health & Safety training policy can help reduce staff turnover, insurance premiums, lost time, lost contracts and damage to your reputation; it can increase morale, reduce absences, result in greater productivity and ultimately, profitability.

If you know what training you require and we offer what you need, that’s great; however, if you’re not sure what training course(s) your employees should complete, we can help with that by assisting you to complete a training needs assessment.

We offer both regulated qualifications that are recognised nationally and which will require some form of formal assessment to be successfully completed by the participants, and bespoke courses that will cover similar content to the regulated qualifications, but which are not ‘recognised’ and are not usually assessed, unless this is requested by you to help determine your employee competence.

Training course options:

Regulated qualifications (Levels 1-3)
Bespoke training courses to suit your specific business needs
Carried out at our training centre near Cardiff
Carried out in your chosen venue
Carried out online
Training date(s) to suit you
A range of open courses that you can book for individuals or groups
Open course dates are here.

If you are unsure as to what you require, book a consultation with one of our H&S professionals for a quick review of your current training needs situation relevant to your industry.

CDM CONsultancy

The Construction (Design and Management) Regulations 2015, also known as The CDM Regulations or CDM 2015, are regulations governing the way construction projects of all sizes and types are planned in the UK. Replacing Construction (Design and Management) Regulations 2007, CDM 2015 is the latest update to the regulations that aim to improve the overall health, safety and welfare of those working in construction.
CDM 2015 places legal duties on all involved in a construction project; duties which are enforceable by criminal law; however, statistics published claim up to 85% of businesses affected by the regulations do not consider themselves to be in the construction industry.
The scope of what constitutes ‘construction work’ (which is found here) is quite broad under the regulations. If you believe the project you are planning is subject to CDM 2015, please see below for the services we offer to help you ensure your compliance.

CDM Advisor

A CDM Consultant/CDM Advisor is a construction health and safety professional who provides advice, assistance and guidance to statutory duty holders (Client, Principal Designer, Principal Contractor, Designers, Contractors), under the Construction (Design & Management) Regulations 2015 (CDM 2015), to ensure they comply with their statutory duties and that health and safety is an integral part of the project.

The CDM advisor role can range from being one of purely providing advice and clarification of the requirements of CDM, to undertaking some of the duties on behalf of the duty holder.

There is no specific scope for this role as this will depend on what is required by the duty holder

Principal Designer

The Principal Designer is a statutory duty holder as defined in CDM 2015 and as such, must be appointed in writing by the client. The Principal Designer undertakes the duties as detailed in CDM 2015 which includes:

Planning, managing, monitoring and coordinating health and safety in the pre-construction phase
Working with designers to eliminate, or otherwise reduce foreseeable H&S risks to anyone affected by the work
Assisting the Client to fulfil their statutory duties including:
- Identification and gathering of pre-construction information for designers and contractors
- HSE notification (F10)
- Construction phase plan review
- Conducting site H&S/CDM compliance inspections during the construction stage
Drafting and developing the H&S file
Liaising with the principal contractor, keeping them informed of any risks that need to be controlled during the construction phase

Further information about CDM 2015 and duty holders can be found here.

CDM Compliance Inspections

CDM 2015 Regulation 4 places duties on the client to ensure that suitable H&S arrangements are

both made and maintained throughout the life of the project; during the construction stage this duty

translates into on-site H&S and CDM documentation compliance inspections. Where you do not

have ‘in-house’ Health & Safety competence to do this yourself, and as experienced CDM and H&S

consultants with many years’ experience working in construction and as CDM advisors and

appointed Principal Designers on many projects, we can undertake these inspections on your behalf.

As part of these regular, usually monthly, CDM Compliance inspections, we will visit the construction

site unannounced, carry out an inspection of CDM documentation which should be available at all

times on site, and conduct a rigorous Health & Safety site inspection. A detailed report with

prioritised, recommended remedial actions (where applicable), and photos of good and poor

practice will be provided for your records, helping you to ensure this duty is complied with and

giving you peace of mind.