Hospitals
120,000 hospital doctors, 400,000 nurses and 25,000 ambulance staff constitute over 1.7 million people employed by the NHS (the world’s fourth largest employer - behind the Chinese People’s Liberation Army, Wal-Mart and the Indian Railways).
In order to deliver their care, hospitals need to ensure they meet a number of environmental, health and safety standards for the welfare of their employees, patients and the public.
How we can help
ESG has a wide range of services to support hospitals in complying with both general and industry specific health and safety obligations. For example, we offer expertise in:
Health and safety, including:
- Compliance audits and site audit programmes
- Advice on the development of policy and risk management systems
- Provision of a Competent Person to ensure you have the necessary skills, when you need them
- Training
- Occupational hygiene
- Food safety
- Drug and alcohol testing
- Sample collection and UKAS accredited analysis for pre-employment screening, as well as random and post-incident testing
- Policy development and advice
Environmental safety, including:
Specialist chemistry testing for suites of elements in:
- Starting materials
- Intermediates and final product
- Containers (syringes, intravenous and dialysis solutions)
- Dangerous goods safety advice
- Fire risk management
Water safety and hygiene for showers and drinking water:
- Compliance audits, risk assessments, training and on-going monitoring programmes
- Chemical and microbiological, including Legionaella sampling and analysis
- Cleaning, chlorination and remedial works
Asbestos identification and management, including:
- Surveys and assessments (with 24/7 emergency call out)
- Policy advice and training
- Hazardous waste separation, disposal and reuse
- Geoenvironmental advice
- Foundation and materials testing
- Geotechnical site investigation
- Geotechnics and engineering geology design
