Health & Safety Recruitment Support in Gloucestershire

The heart of Safety Hands Plus is our enthusiastic team, who feel more like a natural part of your business than traditional, dull consultancy services. Our professional Health & Safety support for employers could be exactly what your organisation needs. With Safety Hands Plus, you can avoid the cost of recruiting extra staff for this responsibility and instead benefit from fixed-fee external consultancy from as little as £7.67 per week.

Outsourcing your required Health & Safety support to Safety Hands Plus can reduce costs, save time, and remove the pressure and resource burden from your business. We help you get back to enjoying why you started your business in the first place—focusing on operations, keeping customers satisfied, and driving revenue.

Safety Hands Plus takes the weight of regulatory compliance off your shoulders by delivering high-quality, proven, and tailored health and safety advice and support to directors, employers, business owners, and managers.

Entertainment Sector Health & Safety Support

At Safety Hands Plus, we offer a tailored service of health and safety support, advice, and training specifically designed for the entertainment sector. Our team integrates seamlessly with yours, allowing you to focus on the creative side of productions while we ensure legal compliance and operational safety. We help keep your productions on schedule, within budget, and protected from fines, delays, legal issues, or harm to cast, crew, staff, and the public.

We can support all or part of your production needs, including:

• Comprehensive H&S services throughout production—from pre-production, location recce, rigging, shoot, to de-rig.

• Full production risk profiling and operational risk management.

• Risk management for remote locations or challenging environments.

• Acting as your UK legally required ‘Competent Safety Advisers’ with production team responsibilities.

• Health and safety guidance during initial production planning, either remotely or on-site.

• Enhancing safety for legal and insurance compliance.

• Checking competence, RAMS, and safety standards for contractors, crew, riggers, stunt performers, pyro technicians, SFX specialists, armourers, and other high-risk personnel.

• Location and set safety assessments.

• Developing or reviewing risk assessments for high-risk stunts, pyro, SFX, armourers, and other hazardous activities.

• Coordinating and managing high-risk operations and performers.

• Rigging and set construction inspections and assessments.

• Emergency planning advice, including liaison with emergency services.

• Recommendations for appropriate first aid and medical cover based on location and activity.

• On-location and on-site training.

• Equipment and PPE advice, including supply recommendations.

• Guidance on specialist requirements such as child protection, safeguarding, persons with special needs, animal welfare, and environmental protection.

• Remote health and safety advice.

• Retained H&S services tailored to your organisation.

• Custom hazard identification.

• Health and safety training.

• Development of policies, procedures, risk assessments, and method statements.

• Unique specialist advice for the entertainment industry.

Health & Safety at Work Enforcement

Workplace health and safety enforcement is carried out by two main authorities, depending on the type of business: your Local Council or the Health & Safety Executive (HSE). While these organisations may occasionally collaborate or provide mutual support, only one authority will take any enforcement action it considers necessary.