Southern Assistance, your Health and Safety Partner

Benefits of working with Southern Assistance

  • Legal Compliance: Ensure your business complies with all relevant UK health and safety legislation, avoiding penalties and legal issues.

  • Risk Mitigation: Identify and mitigate potential risks, reducing accidents and incidents in the workplace.

  • Employee Well-being: Foster a safer and healthier working environment that promotes employee health and morale.

  • Operational Efficiency: A safe workplace is an efficient workplace. By addressing risks proactively, you reduce downtime and improve productivity.

  • Insurance Benefits: Compliant businesses with effective health and safety measures may benefit from lower insurance premiums and improved coverage terms.

  • Reputation Protection: A strong health and safety record enhances your reputation with clients, employees, and regulators, fostering trust and credibility.

  • Onsite or Remote Health and Safety Consultancy. Preparing, Delivering, Maintaining and Advising on Health & Safety policies, Risk Assessments, Procedures, Completing audits and assurance checks including site inspections, Training needs analysis, Incident investigation and Management of Legal Registers as well as any other support that is needed.

    Day Rates typically start from £450

  • Using retained health and safety services enables you to stay up-to-date with burgeoning H&S regulations and ensure your business is fully compliant.

    Here are just a few areas where a retained H&S adviser could help:

    Acting as your named person for Competent advice.

    Ongoing health and safety advice

    Reviewing Risk assessments

    Safety inspections

    Health and safety training

    Developing or reviewing health and safety policies and procedures

    Starting from £90 per month

  • Providing specialist advice to event organisers, promoters and venues to deliver safe events including preparation of Event Safety Plans, Construction Phase Plans, Reviewing Supplier Paperwork, attending Safety Advisory Groups, onsite safety support and collating opportunities for improvement for future events.

  • With qualified Fire Risk Assessors we are able to offer comprehensive Fire Risk Assessments for a wide range of commercial premises.

    Prices start from £500 depending on premise type.

  • Staying on top of compliance is a difficult task with Weekly Fire Alarm Testing, Monthly Emergency Lighting Testing, Monthly & Annual Fire Equipment Inspections, Monthly Water Temperatures and more. Southern Assistance can take this responsibility on and mange these for you.

    Starting from: Weekly site visit £50 per hour

  • Southern Assistance are able to offer a range of training courses including Health and Safety Inductions and Training, Fire Warden Training & First Aid Training.

Some of our available courses

  • Health and Safety Training

    It all begins with an idea. Maybe you want to launch a business. Maybe you want to turn a hobby into something more. Or maybe you have a creative project to share with the world. Whatever it is, making sure you have a good safe footing is key

  • Fire Warden

    Every workplace needs to have trained staff to manage emergencies, do you have sufficient staff? Fire Marshall training will prepare your team to be able to manage Fire Risk before an incident and confidently manage an incident should the worst occur

  • First Aid

    First Aid - the skill that quite literally saves lives! Do you, does your team have the skills to save you or someone else? From a 1 day Emergency First Aid course through to a 5 day First Responder course we can deliver training to support you and your organisation.

  • Custom Training

    Custom training packages to meet your bespoke needs for your business and budget,

  • Manual Handling

    Poor Manual Handling is one of the leading causes of preventable Workplace injury. Through well delivered Manual Handling training this risk can be reduced significantly, contact us to discuss your needs so we can deliver the right course to your team

  • Evacuation Chair

    Fire & Equality legislation require those responsible for premises to be able to ensure all persons onsite can evacuate safely. Through the use of an Evacuation Chair persons of reduced mobility can be assisted to safely with relative ease. This training ensures those responsible have the competence to use an Evacuation Chair safely.

Contact us for prices and availability

Testimonials

  • James is an excellent trainer, knowledgeable and made the course interesting

    Graeme - Regional Operations Manager
    Health & Safety Training Course 2025

  • Southern Assistance supported us in achieveing 5*'s for our Food Safety Rating - Thank you!

    Fakrul - Restaurant Owner
    H&S Consultancy

  • With a pragmatic approach, we were able to safely deliver our event knowing we were supported along the way.

    Karen - Event Planner
    Event Safety Advice

  • The trainer was very good and supportive with in-depth subject knowledge throughout.

    Steve
    First Aid Course - August 2025

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