Health & Safety Support That Protects Your People and Your Business
Sensible Health & Safety, Without the Bureaucracy
Health and Safety tends to go wrong in one of two directions. Some businesses do too little – risk assessments are missing or out-of-date, no-one is clearly responsible and there’s no plan for when something goes wrong. Others do too much – drowning staff in paperwork and procedures that don’t reflect the real risks on-site and that no-one actually follows.
Neither protects your people and neither protects your business.
SME Advisor provides practical, proportionate health and safety support that’s built around how your business actually operates. We help you meet your legal duties, protect your people and operate with confidence, without unnecessary bureaucracy getting in the way.
Book a free, no-obligation Discovery Call to talk through your health and safety requirements.
How We Can Help
Audits and inspections: An honest, practical assessment of where you stand and a clear picture of what needs attention first.
Risk assessments: Accurate, proportionate and specific to your operation, not copied from a template.
Policies and procedures: Documentation that’s actually usable by your team, not written to sit unread in a folder.
Fire safety support: Practical guidance to help you meet your fire safety obligations with confidence.
Competent Person service: Ongoing, named support that satisfies your legal duty to access competent health and safety advice.
Accident investigations: Thorough, objective investigation to understand what happened and prevent it recurring.
Training and training matrices: Making sure the right people have the right training and that you can
RIDDOR advice: Clear guidance on what needs reporting, when, and how.
Management coaching: Building your managers’ confidence and capability to manage health and safety day-to-day.
Not sure where to start? Our Business Roadmap helps you identify the priority actions for your business.
Who We Help
We work across a broad range of sectors, tailoring our approach to the risks that actually apply to your business – not a generic checklist.
- SMEs
- Manufacturers
- Construction
- Engineering
- Retail
- Warehousing & Logistics
- Property
- Hospitality
- Charities
- Office-based businesses
Recognise your business here? Get in touch and let’s talk about what you need.
The Health & Safety Challenges Businesses Bring to Us
Under the Health and Safety at Work Act, every business has a legal duty to have access to competent health and safety advice. Yet many SMEs are left without it, relying on outdated documents or advice that hasn’t kept pace with how the business has grown. That gap is where risk lives – an accident with no proper investigation, an inspection that finds an issue you didn’t know existed, a contractor on site with no clear management process.
These are the issues we’re asked to help with most often:
- Missing or outdated risk assessments
- Compliance concerns
- Improvement Notices
- Accident investigations
- Poor documentation
- Training gaps
- Contractor management
- Fire safety
- Meeting COSHH regulations
- Reporting of Injuries, Diseases, and Dangerous Occurrences RIDDOR
- Lack of competent advice
If any of this sounds familiar, you don’t need to figure it out alone. Book a Discovery Call and we’ll help you get on top of it.
How We Work
We don’t believe in generic checklists or one-size-fits-all paperwork. Every business we work with gets a structured process, tailored to its actual risks.
We start by understanding your business, your sites and your existing arrangements, then assess where the real risk and compliance gaps sit. From there, we agree a clear, prioritised action plan, help you implement it (whether that’s documentation, training or a change in process) and stay close to make sure it’s working and being followed. It’s a process built for confidence, not just a file of paperwork.
Why Businesses Choose SME Advisor
Competent Person support: We fulfil your legal duty to access competent health and safety advice, ensuring you’re covered and can demonstrate it.
Practical, proportionate advice: We focus on managing real risk, not generating paperwork for its own sake.
Genuine commercial understanding: We know how SMEs operate and we give advice that works in the real world, not just on paper.
Clear action plans: You’ll always know what needs doing, in what order and why.
Inspection support: From preparing for a routine inspection through to responding after an HSE or Local Authority visit, we’re on hand.
Flexible ways to work with us: Project-based support or an ongoing retained arrangement – whatever suits how your business runs.
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Health and Safety risk is rarely the only risk. Take a look at our HR support.
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Not sure where to prioritise? Try our free Business Roadmap.
Ready to talk it through? Book a Discovery Call.
Frequently Asked Questions
Can you help with our SSIP accreditation?
Yes. We can support you through the SIPP (Safety Schemes in Procurement ) application and ongoing compliance process.
Can you help after HSE or Local Authority inspections?
Yes. We can help with everything from immediate response through to putting corrective actions in place.
Can you provide documentation?
Yes. We can provide documentation for risk assessments, policies, procedures and training records, all specific to your business.
Do you provide ongoing support or just one-off projects?
Both. We can provide whatever your organisation needs – from a single audit or investigation through to an ongoing retained Competent Person service.
Ready to Improve Your Health & Safety?
Book a FREE, no-obligation Discovery Call to discuss your requirements and how SME Advisor can help. Contact SME Advisor by phone, email or our online enquiry form.
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