Our Services

JAD Associates is an IOSH registered consultancy and as a result is accredited to provide health and safety support to most organisations.

If your organisation employs five or more people it must have a written Health and Safety policy and a Health and Safety management system to continually assess and document action on identifiable risks. The JAD Associates' approach to Health and Safety is to create a practical, working system and not to produce a set of files that merely sits on the shelf. We believe that effective Health and Safety systems are those that are integrated with the other aspects of the organisation's management systems such as Quality Assurance, Environmental Management and Human Resources Management.

JAD Associates are able to produce Health and Safety related documents, including project specific Method Statements, Risk Assessments, Operating Procedures and Policies and the on-site training required to support them.

This integrated approach ensures that Health and Safety is taken into account appropriately and managed proportionally as a result of meaningful reviews and targeted auditing.

Our aim is to assist our clients by reviewing working practices, carrying out appropriate risk assessments and by identifying sensible control measures and ensuring compliance with legislation via practical management processes and timely and bespoke solutions.

We can provide a service to independently monitor and audit Health & Safety arrangements at a particular location, facility or site. Inspections generally cover all aspects of operations as they relate to the workforce, contractors and to the general public. Regular site inspections can be carried out using site-specific checklists which greatly reduce the time and cost of the safety inspections needed to cover the requirements of UK safety legislation.

JAD Associates, with the agreement of the client, record inspections and findings, with digital photography for inclusion on reports and close-out presentations. Visual records are an excellent way of monitoring Health and Safety performance and alterations/developments that occur on a site and also provide bespoke material for training and workforce induction.

Following a safety inspection, we will produce a report outlining areas of both good and poor practice and suggested remedies that could assist in increasing Health and Safety performance throughout the company.

The Management of Health and Safety at Work Regulations 1999 requires employers to undertake 'a suitable and sufficient' risk assessment of their operations to quantify the risk to employees and other people affected by the operations (such as contractors, visitors, general public, etc).

We offer a service to carry out risk assessments within your organisation. Effective and meaningful risk assessments are generally produced as a result of observations, interviews and discussions with those involved in activities and documentation reviews such as accident records.

We follow the Health and Safety Executive (HSE) '5 Steps to Risk Assessment' methodology:

• identification of hazards
• identification of persons at risk
• evaluation of risks arising from hazards
• recording of assessment findings
• monitoring and review of assessment.

There may be particular operations or processes carried out on site where, due to the nature of the task, written procedures, operating instructions, method statements, etc, are required. These written statements are used for reference by the work force, line management, and regulatory inspectors or as part of a Health & Safety or integrated management system.

Method Statements may also be used as part of a training process to inform that the right steps are taken to ensure that a hazardous operation is performed safely and efficiently. We can prepare the necessary procedural documentation using easy to follow flow charts and where practical photographs to demonstrate the correct practice.

JAD Associates will assist your organisation in identifying areas where training is needed, developing training modules, and delivering training on your premises to minimise disruption to the working schedule. Training

With legislation relating to employment constantly changing, new case law emerging on a daily basis, the risks and penalties for getting it wrong increasing, can you answer all human resources questions with confidence?

It may be that you do not have your own HR Manager or you may be an experienced HR professional who requires support with a specific Human Resources project:

• Are you facing a downsizing exercise, employment dismissal or a complicated disciplinary?
• Are you fully aware of the latest discrimination legislation?
• Are you managing absence levels effectively?
• Does your maternity policy need updating?
• Do you need to implement a system for managing the annual pay reviews?
• Do your HR policies and procedures require a health check to identify any gaps or risks?

We specialise in helping employers manage all aspects of employment and workplace issues. Whether you have an ad hoc query or require ongoing support and guidance call us for a quote. We tailor our approach to suit your individual requirements.

Team Development

We are accredited to use the Myers Briggs Type Indicator which has been used successfully with teams throughout the world. In our changing world, workplace teams are increasingly varied and complex. The MBTI tool presents a framework designed to cut through this complexity and enable teams to function more productively. The MBTI tool, with its Jungian foundation, is a natural for the job because it is based on the premise that we all have unique gifts to offer and challenges to overcome. In teams we work together, attempting to maximise each member's special talents, thereby minimising gaps in knowledge and skills. Applying the MBTI tool to team and teambuilding provides us with the understanding to make that happen.

Using the MBTI Type Indicator JAD Associates can design and facilitate tailored team development workshops to address six core issues affecting teams today:

• Communication;
• Team culture;
• Leadership;
• Change;
• Problem solving/conflict resolution, and
• Stress.

Management Training

We can assist your organisation in identifying areas for development in terms of management effectiveness training, developing training modules, using psychometric testing tools where appropriate, and delivering training on your premises to minimise disruption to the working schedule. Examples of soft skills programmes include Interviewing Skills for Managers, Personal Effectiveness, Appraisal Interviewing and HR Legal Updates.

Equally, if there are managers within your organisation that have a particular development need that a traditional training course cannot satisfy, then JAD Associates can also offer performance coaching sessions, on either an individual or team basis.

Our intervention can range from ongoing hands-on support to training your employees in quality awareness and management:

• Business improvement tools training
• Quality awareness and system induction training
• Customer complaint management
• Management system auditing.

We specialise in identifying and implementing improvement solutions. We use Lean and 6 Sigma processes where appropriate and can develop quality assurance or environment, health & safety functions.

System Improvement & Business Simplification

• Use of Lean and 6 Sigma process improvement methodologies
• Process mapping
• Waste assessment auditing and 5S facilitation
• Integrated Management Systems deployment.

Management Reporting

• Management system reviews
• Internal and external customer surveys
• Supplier internal and external auditing
• Regulatory compliance gap analysis.

• Development of regulatory compliance frameworks, including core policies and key Management System infrastructure (ISO4001, ISO9001, OHSAS 18001, EFQM and HS(G) 65) and key processes
• Design of forms, templates, standard methods
• Draft of employee safety and quality handbooks.