Faster health and safety documents, less rejections and a more efficient, compliant business
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Faster health and safety documents, less rejections and a more efficient, compliant business
HANDS HQ IS A RISK ASSESSMENT AND METHOD STATEMENT APP BUILT FOR THE SPECIFIC NEEDS OF THE CONSTRUCTION INDUSTRY.
Huge amounts of time is wasted every day in the UK creating and updating health and safety paperwork, which is often rejected for not being tailored to a project.
HANDS HQ creates project specific risk assessments, method statements and COSHH assessments in minutes - reclaiming lost time and improving compliance for thousands of construction businesses.
Developed with a simple user interface that can be accessed from any desktop, laptop or tablet, HANDS HQ offers a new approach to creating company consistent RAMS documents in 80% less time and with up-to 90% less rejections from clients.
FASTER DOCUMENTS,LESS REJECTIONSSimple enough to create documents in minutes, powerful enough for jobs of any size. By only including what’s relevant to the task at hand, your documents are job-specific resulting in less rejections, and a significant reduction in lost time.
HANDS HQ’S SIMPLICITY, YOUR CONTENTLeverage the efficiency and simplicity of the HANDS HQ platform using your company’s existing risk assessments, method statements and COSHH assessments.
Our onboarding team will help your business upload content and smooth the transition to a better way of doing things.
CERTIFICATION READYTracks changes to documents automatically. See who, when and why changes are made in the document history.
Dozens of companies have already passed ISO 9001 and OSHAS 18001 using HANDS HQ.
APPROVE OR REJECT DOCUMENTSImprove your document quality by implementing an approval process. Documents can be submitted by staff to managers for approval or rejection with comments. Email notifications keep all the right people in the loop.
MULTIPLE DEPARTMENTSOrganise your HANDS HQ account by departments, regional offices or subsidiaries so employees see only what’s relevant to them. Managers can access multiple departments for complete oversight of your business’ operations.
“ HANDS HQ HAS BECOME A VITAL TOOL IN ACHIEVING AND MAINTAINING OUR OHSAS 18001 ACCREDITATION, SIMPLIFYING THE PROCESS OF PRODUCING RISK ASSESSMENTS AND METHOD STATEMENTS WITHOUT COMPROMISING THE CONTENT.” Andy York (Health and safety co-ordinator)
WRITE A RISK ASSESSMENT AND METHOD STATEMENTEasily add activities, risks and sequence of operations from our content library.
IN JUST A FEW MINUTES YOU’LL BE ABLE TO:
ADD COSHH ASSESSMENTS FOR YOUR JOBQuickly find COSHH assessments for all your hazardous substances.
SEND YOUR DOCUMENTS DIRECTLY TO YOUR CLIENTWhen you’re done, simply email a PDF of your combined documents.
FASTER DOCUMENTS,LESS REJECTIONSSimple enough to create documents in minutes, powerful enough for jobs of any size. By only including what’s relevant to the task at hand, your documents are job-specific resulting in less rejections, and a significant reduction in lost time.
HANDS HQ’S SIMPLICITY, YOUR CONTENTLeverage the efficiency and simplicity of the HANDS HQ platform using your company’s existing risk assessments, method statements and COSHH assessments.
Our onboarding team will help your business upload content and smooth the transition to a better way of doing things.
CERTIFICATION READYTracks changes to documents automatically. See who, when and why changes are made in the document history.
Dozens of companies have already passed ISO 9001 and OSHAS 18001 using HANDS HQ.
APPROVE OR REJECT DOCUMENTSImprove your document quality by implementing an approval process. Documents can be submitted by staff to managers for approval or rejection with comments. Email notifications keep all the right people in the loop.
MULTIPLE DEPARTMENTSOrganise your HANDS HQ account by departments, regional offices or subsidiaries so employees see only what’s relevant to them. Managers can access multiple departments for complete oversight of your business’ operations.
“ HANDS HQ HAS BECOME A VITAL TOOL IN ACHIEVING AND MAINTAINING OUR OHSAS 18001 ACCREDITATION, SIMPLIFYING THE PROCESS OF PRODUCING RISK ASSESSMENTS AND METHOD STATEMENTS WITHOUT COMPROMISING THE CONTENT.” Andy York (Health and safety co-ordinator)
WRITE A RISK ASSESSMENT AND METHOD STATEMENTEasily add activities, risks and sequence of operations from our content library.
IN JUST A FEW MINUTES YOU’LL BE ABLE TO:
ADD COSHH ASSESSMENTS FOR YOUR JOBQuickly find COSHH assessments for all your hazardous substances.
SEND YOUR DOCUMENTS DIRECTLY TO YOUR CLIENTWhen you’re done, simply email a PDF of your combined documents.
CASE STUDYALPINE WORKSAlpine Works is an electrical and mechanical services company based in Surrey. Until recently, they were spending a sizeable amount of time on risk assessments and method statements.
THE PROBLEM: 400 HOURS OF PAPERWORKWith 5 project managers, anywhere from 50–100 projects per year, and at least 3–4 hours of health and safety paperwork per project, the company was spending up to 400 man-hours per year on risk assessments and method statements (RAMS). And that’s not taking into account the extra documentation that’s needed for bigger jobs, like paperwork updates, separate assessments for electrical
shutdowns, COSHH assessments and other worksite necessities.
Until March 2014, Alpine Works primarily used an external health and safety advisor to handle their assessment and documentation needs. It involved a lot of copying and pasting, says Jon Elborn, the health and safety manager at Alpine. The process resulted in large Excel spreadsheets that left project managers with only a general idea of the health and safety situation on their projects and spent more time on formatting than considering the site-specific hazards.
THE SOLUTION:HANDS HQSince starting to use HANDS HQ, however, things have changed. Elborn says that they’ve experienced an 80% reduction in the time it takes to prepare RAMS and COSHH assessments. There are a number of benefits to this beyond the obvious direct time-saving ones: now, anyone is able to complete the documentation process, and if one project manager needs to take over another’s project, the transition is much simpler - and completely auditable.
“THE DAYS OF COPY-AND-PASTE ARE OVER. ACCURATE DOCUMENTS ARE SO EASY TO PRODUCE WITH HANDS HQ. AS A RESULT, STAFF ARE TAKING A REAL INTEREST DEVELOPING THEIR RAMS DOCUMENTS NOW.” Jon Elborn (Health & Safety Manager)
EXPERIENCE & RESPONSIVENESSOn the help that HANDS HQ has provided, Elborn was quick to say that HANDS HQ’s simplicity and ease of use was crucial to the success of the implementation, especially when getting buy in from all the project managers. He describes HANDS HQ as “easy...and fast,” with HANDS HQ’s background in construction shining through.
Whenever any new content needed to be added, the support team was quick to respond. As a highly valued customer, Alpine Works was instrumental in helping HANDS HQ to add features to the software that have be useful to all of HANDS HQ’s customers.
BEFORE HANDS HQ
100PROJECTS PER YEAR
4 HRSDOCUMENTATION PER PROJECT
400MAN HOURS PER YEAR ON
RAMS DOCUMENTS
WITH HANDS HQ
80%TIME SAVING
320 HRSSAVED PER YEAR
COMPLIANCE & SAFER WORKING PRACTICESAlpine recently passed BSI 14001 and 9001 compliance testing using HANDS HQ, which Elborn says addresses a core need of Alpine’s business. He and Alpine Works Limited are looking forward to continuing to use HANDS HQ in the future, and making even more strides in creating a more efficient, more effective health and safety division.
With their compliance and best practice issues solved, safer working practices in place, and higher employee involvement in health and safety assessment and documentation, a stronger health and safety culture has been established at Alpine Works, and the future looks bright.
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