HSE outsourcing

Outsourcing is one of the more effective ways of delivering a project: handing tasks to a specialist organisation shortens the timescale, optimises costs and meets the main objective — reaching the agreed goals quickly and competently. Effective management of health and safety helps not only in meeting legal requirements, but also:

• ensures proper protection of employees' health and safety,
• reduces losses caused by accidents at work, work-related illness and inadequate working conditions, and with that improves the company's reputation,
• ensures proper and responsible management of the risks present in the business,
• helps employees understand the hazards at their workstation and why protective measures are necessary,
• improves productivity and the quality of the work performed.

Every employee, and every subcontractor, must know the OHS rules and the internal procedures in force at the company. Under the Regulation of the Minister of Economy and Labour of 27 July 2004 on training in occupational health and safety (Journal of Laws No. 180, item 1860), all employees are subject to OHS training regardless of position, length of service or form of employment.

Induction training covers a general briefing and a workstation briefing. Because of the number of employees and the rate of turnover, and because rules and working conditions change, the regulation was supplemented in 2007. Among other things, it clarified guided self-study based on materials supplied by the training organiser, in particular using the internet. Part of employee training may therefore be delivered as e-learning: staff can acquire or refresh knowledge at a convenient time, and the employer does not have to pay for individual sessions for single employees.

In addition, an occupational risk assessment must be carried out for every workstation, based on the results of testing and measurement of the physical, chemical, biological and other factors present in the working environment.

What we offer

• induction OHS training,
• periodic OHS training,
• occupational risk assessment documentation,
• fire safety instructions,
• explosion protection documents,
• advisory services in occupational and fire safety,
• support in implementing recommendations following inspections,
• measurement of harmful factors at the workstation,
• noise measurements,
• lighting measurements,
• microbiological testing,
• microclimate testing.

As part of a comprehensive HSE outsourcing service we can also supply hygiene products and personal protective equipment.

International companies with their own internal procedures — which in some cases go considerably beyond local statutory standards — place much higher demands on an HSE outsourcing partner. Drawing on experience gained while providing environmental and HSE services to leading fuel and construction companies, Vicesima built a tool that makes it possible to train and verify the knowledge of an unlimited number of employees in a very short time.

The VITRIX platform is one element of our HSE outsourcing package, adapted to the client's visual identity.