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A unique approach to Health & Safety management
At Ascend, our risk management capabilities will assist you with the ongoing management of your company. We will seek to find new ways of reducing your exposure to risk and will implement the most cost–effective programme, backed by our liability/fleet and safety consultants and a select number of specialist third party providers.
The following services are available to our clients, delivered by a team of qualified industry-trained and experienced professionals:

Health & Safety
Tiered Service Model
COSHH Assessments
RIDDOR Management
Training Programmes
Toolbox Talks
CDM Regulations
Commissioning of New Equipment
Face Fit Equipment
Health & Safety Advice
What we do best…
Expert consultancy firm based in Chelmsford, specialising in HR & Health and Safety. We are a business orientated consultancy, with almost 20 years’ experience of providing effective solutions for businesses across the UK.
We will visit you onsite to review your processes, documentation, management and systems and help you have a robust and compliant policy that is adopted across your business.
All of our clients have a dedicated Health & Safety consultant who can be contacted by telephone or email 7 days a week.
Contact us for a consultation
Your dedicated Health & Safety department

We work hard to secure your trust – now your Health & Safety management is in safe hands.
We are all on-hand after office hours, as we know accidents can happen at the most inconvenient times.
In a world where businesses are centralising to call centres hundreds of miles away from your business, or, even worse, removing this vital function – we buck the trend.
No two clients are the same, which is why we provide you with a unique choice on the service you require from us – our tiered service proposition.
This is backed by our Ascend Risk Index – a market leader in providing insurers with the confidence that you have the Ascend Risk standard.

Ascend Risk clients benefit from
Reduced insurance premiums
Health & Safety Service
- Onsite project work*
- Tiered monthly subscription service*
- H&S documentation
- H&S risk assessments
- H&S Services
- H&S COSHH queries
- H&S RIDDOR queries
- H&S audits & evaluations
- Fire risk assessments
- Asbestos assessments
Health and Safety
- Corporate reviews
- Compliance audits
- Policy drafting
- COSHH assessment strategies
- Conduct accident investigations
- Health and safety training
- Assistance in avoiding civil claims
Environmental
- Devise and implement environmental management strategies
- Conduct workplace assessments including noise, vibration, lighting and others
Liability & Property Site Surveys
Liability & Property on-site and desktop surveys completed by a qualified Liability or Property Risk Consultant to assess risk and potential risk, provide underwriters and your key stakeholders with an understanding of the risks posed, and give a summary review on how well these are currently being managed.
Liability: Bespoke Risk Consultancy
Our services include:
- Liability Risk Health-check
• Review of central health and safety documentation and current management procedures
• Surveys of identified sites to review current health and safety documentation and complete site assessment
• Risk rating methodology implemented for individual sitesSoil pollution - The Ascend Risk Rating Tool
• Individually weighted risk areas assessed
• Individual risk areas and overall risk rating generated for organisation/ location assessed
• Best Practice
• Suitable
• Requires Improvement
• Poor
• Summary report provided for each survey
• Risk improvements provided
• Serious
• Significant
• Advisory
• Access to Ascend Contractors Connections for risk improvement actions
• Data and trend analysis from survey data collected - Air pollution
- Water pollution
- Offensive odour
- Oil storage pollution
- Noise pollution
- Damage to natural resources
- Other pollution and environmental damage

We will:
- Review central health and safety documentation and current management procedures
- Survey identified sites to review current health and safety documentation and complete site assessment
- Implement risk rating methodology for individual sites
The output will include:
- Summary report outlining
- Risk rating score for each site visited
- Prioritised risk improvement actions to improve risk
This will include:
- High level claims analysis of all EL claims to understand trends, specific high risk areas or locations
- Deep dive EL claims review for sample of claims as agreed to understand the root causes, loss
lessons and potential risk improvements to be implemented - Loss lessons and positive actions identified
The output will include:
Output:
Summary report outlining:
- High level claims analysis
- Risk improvements based on loss lessons
- Facilitated Workshop
- Identify lessons and build action plan to implement risk improvements
Demonstrate to insurers that you are aware of the risks and are mitigating the risk and impact of claims by:
• Protecting the workforce and boosting productivity by reducing accidents and work-related illnesses
• Proactively mitigating organisational disruption which is costly and poses a risk to your brand and reputation
Motor Fleet
Our consultants can help eliminate nasty surprises, so your business keeps moving. Our service covers two vehicles, to two thousand.
Examples of how we can help include:
- Driver training
- Claims trends reviews
- Implementation of cameras
- Monitoring systems
- Enforcement
- Document checks
- Dangerous goods
- Fleet management
- Collision investigation
- Small business risk management
- Fleet auditing
- Risk management

Bespoke Risk Consultancy
Our bespoke consultancy can provide:
- Business Interruption and Continuity Review
- Training Solutions
- Managing Contractors Safely
- Motor Risk Review
- Site Specific Environmental Risk Assessment
- Business Financial Health Check
Business Interruption & Continuity
Business Interruption and Continuity Review
This would involve:
• Consultation meeting in order to understand the business, and current perceived key insurable risks where business
interruption covers might apply
• A review of your current business interruption cover against accounting information
• Day workshop in order to discuss risks perceived by the business, with a focus on business interruption and business continuity.
Training Solutions
Managing Contractors Safely
Motor Fleet Review
Site Specific Environmental Risk Assessment
Business Financial Health Check

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Cameras in Vehicles
We can help fleet operators to reduce claims cost and claims frequency by arranging a programme that enables the installation and real time recording of your vehicles, at a discounted rate to you.
Free telephone consultation
01245 449 060
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Paul Bailey
Please contact Paul Bailey, who heads our Health & Safety division, Paul’s contact details can be found below or, if you would prefer, please complete the contact form at the bottom of this page and Paul will contact you at your convenience.
Health & Safety Executive
M: 07909845720 E: paul.bailey@ascendrisk.co.uk
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