Employing over 3.2 million people and contributing around 14% to the country's GDP, it goes without saying that manufacturing in the UK is big business. Naturally, due to the nature of the work involved, health and safety is a massive concern to the industry as a whole; especially when you consider that in 2007 and 2008 alone, the sector reported 5,200 major injuries - 35 of which proved fatal.

As such, leading players in the industry are taking active steps to improve safety records and protect workers' long-term health and wellbeing.

Why choose HSL?

A safe, healthy workforce is a productive workforce; so investing in proper health and safety management doesn't just save lives - it saves money too. HSL can help you do just that, by:

• Reducing hazards: As the UK's leading industrial occupational health and safety research/consultancy facility, we can pull together a team from over 350 specialists, who will help you to make your manufacturing plant as efficient as it possibly can be.
• Preventing incidents: Our experience of incident investigation - from train crashes to collapsed bridges - enables us to apply valuable knowledge and lessons to help prevent incidents in your industry.
• Improving health and wellbeing: We can help you to meet legal requirements for employee care, improving staff wellbeing - and at the same time, your organisation's reputation for excellence in employee care and health and safety practices.

How can we help?

Here at HSL, we can tailor our health and safety solutions to the individual needs of each client. This means we can:

• Develop strategies, systems and policies for managing health and safety in your organisation, suggesting possible routes for specialist referral if required.
• Test flooring, contaminants and safety footwear, and advise managers on how to reduce the likelihood of slips, trips and falls.
• Interpret, manage and take important lessons from the data you collect after accidents (or near-miss incidents).
• Offer bespoke health and safety training packages.
• Give advice on fatigue in shift-workers, or those who are particularly at risk in their jobs.
• Run 'behavioural change' programmes designed to prevent accidents by raising workers' awareness and co-operation with safety initiatives.
• Visit you at your site to measure and analyse the ergonomic environment and suggest improvements if necessary .
• Assess the levels of noise and vibration in your workplace.
• Advise on any protective equipment needed for workers (and how to use it safely).
• Help you to monitor occupational hygiene.

For more information on our work in the manufacturing sector, take a look at our case studies, listed below.

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