MHL ensures manufacturing companies run smoothly

Fatal injuries within the manufacturing industry have fluctuated over the past few years, with the most recent findings reporting a 22 per cent decrease in statistics in the past year*.

But, with 3.6 million days being lost each year due to workplace injury, more and more companies are handing over responsibility for health and safety and employment law to independent HR providers.

As the UK's fastest-growing health and safety and employment law specialists, MHL Support provide a service to countless manufacturing companies to ensure they are compliant with all legislation to minimise injury and protect employers and employees alike.

Ian White, Health and Safety consultant of MHL Support, said: "We put the framework in place for each of our clients to enable their business to become complaint with all HSE legislation to ensure they are protected, both from civil liability and criminal prosecution. Once the correct H&S procedures are in place, even if the worst does happen, a company is compliant and protected to that end.

"MHL Support carries out risk assessments, health and safety visits and compiles reports on what needs to be addressed to maintain that compliance at all times. We arrange follow up visits to ensure that everything has been done to the necessary levels," he said.

"One factor that is a major consideration for the industry today is the REACH issue – the Registration, Evaluation and Authorisation of Chemicals in the EU.

"This is something MHL Support is fully versed in, which offers huge reassurance to our clients. Ultimately, their duty is to run their business well and, by entrusting all of their health and safety and employment law obligations to a professional and dedicated service such as ourselves, they can focus their attention on the job in hand," said Ian.

Jacqui Brooks of Jaguar Building Services Ltd said that MHL had made processes at the 100-strong company much easier: "We find the advice line particularly useful. It means that whenever a problem arises, there is someone on hand to talk us through our concerns.

"Moreover, the advice offered is balanced – the MHL team see everything from both the employer's and the employee’s perspective, which is necessary to reach a satisfactory solution. The service is definitely a valuable resource for us.” Russ Arrowsmith of Arrow Engineering said that he valued MHL Support above any other resource.

"The expertise and advice at your disposal is second to none, the team really are superb," he said. "We've had a couple of incidents that could have proved very stressful and in all honesty, MHL Support handled every aspect so that we didn't have to put any time or effort into resolving them.

"There was a redundancy plan that proved very complex, and MHL Support managed the whole workload and came out on top. We even had a case where a new employee had a restrictive covenant in his contract which proved problematic for us, and even though the problem actually related to another company, MHL gave us all of the advice and backing they could.

"I would not hesitate to advise anyone to enlist their services if they want operations to run smoothly and effortlessly with total security," he added.