3Spires Safety Ltd

3Spires Safety consultants provide wind power safety services throughout all phases of wind farm construction both onshore and offshore. Specific phases such as mobilisation to site, installation, commissioning, demobilisation, upgrades and operations & maintenance have ensured we provide experienced consultants across the UK & European wind power sector, and we are now entering the US market.

3spires safety have delivered wind power safety services for global leaders in the wind power sector such as Siemens, Vestas, General Electric, EDF, Orsted and Vattenfall.

Being able to provide Manufacturing safety services have ensured that 3Spires Safety consultants have diversified their skill sets across thriving emerging markets.

If you are a manufacturing company that employ’s over five workers then you have a legal duty of care and an obligation to your workers to provide a safe place of work. The best way of doing this is through creating a safety management system that reflects how your business operates safely.

During our journey providing manufacturing safety services our team have built experience with various heavy duty machines such as metal presses, hydraulic presses, non statutory presses, CNC cutting machinery, and rivet machines.

No matter what the nature and size of your business is, if you find yourself involved in the commercial construction sector you can be sure that the only way to be consistently re-employed is through a positive safety record.

3Spires Safety offer a range of construction safety services that arm companies with the tools to maintain their construction safety compliance at site level and in line with applicable HSE legislation.

To meet the growing demand for site security, we now provide a full CCTV monitoring service. Offering permanent or temporary monitoring solutions using the latest IP technology, our clients can now monitor their site, stock or premises from anywhere in the world.

Our team have decades of experience installing systems into blue-chip companies, and you can be assured of a professional service that is fitting with the range of services available from 3Spires Safety.

3Spires site security products aim to tackle theft in and around commercial construction sites and wind farms which over recent times has become increasingly problematic and troublesome with organised gangs targeting turbines/ cabling/ plant machinery and heavy duty generators.

CDM 2015 advice is something all companies venturing into notifiable projects will need to ascertain before planning can begin. At 3Spires Safety our team are well placed to support with CDM 2015 advice, we aim to first understand why CDM 2015 legislation directly affects you as a domestic or commercial client. It is our primary objective to ensure that the advice we offer is in compliance with CDM 2015 law, and make certain that you are given the correct advice as to adhere to your affiliated roles and responsibility’s placed upon you by CDM 2015 legislation.

We have experience in offering broad based advice covering all of the CDM 2015 roles such as the Client, Principal Designer, Principal Contractor, Designers, Contractors and Workers. We have extensive knowledge in implementing site specific construction phase plans capturing the residual risks and foreseeable risks for the impending or ongoing work activity’s.

3Spires Safety offer CDM 2015 advice for the collation of the Clients project health & safety file capturing as built information, the training certificates of project contractors, performing site inspections and audit, ensuring rigid fire safety plans, supporting the client through their technical due diligence process, advising on environmental aspects of the project and any hazardous materials used, reviewing contractor risk assessments and method statements, writing project descriptions, and integral structural information.

3Spires Safety provide a niche skill set in the way of consistently being involved in HSE Procurement Services for various project tenders and service contract negotiations with global leaders in renewables and wind power throughout the procurement phase.

3Spires Safety raise reservations throughout their HSE procurement services for turbine supply agreements and service warranty agreements for potential offshore wind farm locations around Europe as to determine whether the construction contractor our team are working with accept the client’s site specific demands, rules, HSE policy’s legally binding health and safety requirements, and additionally we advise on any potential cost implications that we feel may arise from accepting the Clients conditions.

The role entails suggesting modified wording, determining compliance with applicable legislation such as the CDM regulations 2015 for the U.K, BSH Requirements Germany, Royal Decree Belgium, and ARBO Netherlands all but to name a few. In addition raising awareness to other departments such as legal, technical, quality and sales if we feel legislation for the country the tender applies to harbours hidden cost we need to account for.

3Spires Safety offer a meticulous and structured approach to offshore & onshore safety audits across various workplace environments such as commercial construction sites, onshore windfarms, offshore vessel audits, offshore wind farm audits, jack up rig audits, onshore component lay down areas, onshore storage facilities, onshore production lines and onshore power stations.

Our attention to detail ensures that all our offshore & onshore safety audits cover specific topics such as HSE documentation ensuring it is task specific, in date, in line with applicable legislation and the client/site HSE requirements. Inspections of plant, ground conditions, security, airborne particles, asbestos, housekeeping, excavations, spill response, sea fastenings,rotating machinery, hand held tools ,work equipment internal/external inspection regimes, welfare facilities and project behavioural safety.

Our organisation offer a conclusive and structured approach to any workplace accident & Incident Investigation, near miss, or dangerous occurrence investigation. Providing quality techniques that uncover causal factors, root cause analysis, and control and mitigation measures to prevent reoccurrences.

Responsive and efficient in collating evidence, with attention to detail to produce a structured report following an accident investigation. 3Spires safety are often appointed to lead workplace accident & Incident investigations. This ensures the development of businesses through analysing the trends and data that led to the incident occurring. If proper techniques are used to collate such data it essentially allows the company to progressively evolve.

Failure to investigate workplace accidents, incidents, and near misses can have severe cost implications for businesses through fines as a result of negligence, court costs, compensation, wages, lost of reputation, increased insurance premiums, impacts on future tenders, and lost time in investigations.

3Spires deliver a specialised service for Health & Safety policy writing with a primary aim of a clear and incisive devotion to the company responsibilities, beliefs, aims, and objectives.

3Spires safety consultants ensure HSE policies can be easily communicated to internal and external company employees, covering a range of topics such as applicable HSE laws, zero harm to employees, drugs and alcohol, training and competency, management review, accident investigation, internal audit regimes, implementation and maintenance of a safety management system, proactive implementation of safe working procedures, installing HSE committee’s, energy efficiency, and attentiveness to environmental awareness.

Our health & safety consultants implement effective Health & Safety policy writing by understanding how businesses will manage health and safety in the workplace. Ensuring that all staff and interested stakeholders understand the companies commitment to health and safety. The health and safety policy should clearly say who does what, when and how. A health and safety policy should give an initial short business overview stating how many employees it has and their roles, who the managing director is, and the business opening hours.

As an established alliance 3Spires provide workplace risk assessments & method statements as a service across a plethora of industry sectors, ensuring that documentation is task specific, informative yet simple to read, highlighting existing hazards in the workplace, a step by step guide of how to complete the work safely, control measures, matrix score charts, start and completion dates, emergency contact numbers, the document author, the HSE contact and the reviewing stakeholders and risk assessment definitions.

Additionally the communication of the completed workplace risk assessments & method statements to the work force with group discussions and actively involving the various trades and subject matter experts appointed to complete the work to ensure the delivery of a task specific document that gives the work force that vital involvement to strengthen HSE culture.

To implement a successful safety management system 3Spires Safety adopt the plan, do, check, act stance. Workplace method statements & risk assessments go along way to achieving that success and come under the HSG65 guidance of “how we do it” for safety management systems. A structured work method statement often referred to as a “safe system of work”, is a document that highlights the way a work duty or procedure is to be concluded. A method statement should specify the hazards related to the nature of the work scope and include walk through guidance on how to complete the job safely. Our workplace risk assessments & method statements cover paramount detail on which control measures have been established to safe guard the personnel appointed to perform the work task.

We prioritise a comprehensive and thorough service for auditing safety management systems against the international standard 45001. Our Auditors service provides a gap analysis that highlights areas of needed improvement for various businesses across multiple industries to implement the required framework for a robust OH&S management system.

OHSAS 45001 is the world’s leading health and safety international standard and it outlines the requirements for designing and maintaining a suitably effective safety management system. Our 45001 Auditors help all kinds of companies put in place conclusive sound occupational health and safety performance through internally auditing their health and safety processes. Our auditors are trained and competent in identifying gaps in safety management systems, therefore, allowing our customers to proactively prepare for external audits to ascertain 45001 accreditation.

As a health, safety & security company dedicated to HSE distinction we offer a range of different health,safety & security procedure writing services that can be engineered to suit the needs of the customer yet remain legally compliant to the country of origin , be easily communicated to work place employees whilst ensuring so far as reasonably practicable that health and safety at work is a part of the everyday practice.

Our team offer structured health,safety & security procedure writing services based on lessons learned across various industries and our due diligence on our potential clients. Implementing visual pictures and task specific methods for various work place environments and HSE topics such as emergency response, working at height, lock out tag out, lifting operations, manual handling, confined space, access and egress, accident investigation, fall protection, fire safety & PPE, tool box talks and equipment use, ladder use, office safety, safety inspections, management of change, and personnel transfer.

Having workplace emergency response training implemented at the worksite is in the more developed countries of Europe a legal requirement as per relevant health and safety law. Additionally collating proof of emergency response training is also a requirement under laws, H&S regulations and recognised international HSE standards.

The 3 main purposes for workplace emergency response training are to further develop employee competencies to ensure they are practised in their roles and responsibilities should an emergency arise, validation of the plan to ensure it works and to test established emergency procedures. Planning for any emergency can not be considered reliable until it is evaluated through a drill, this eliminates any false dependence on an untested written plan.

3Spires as a health and safety group provide practical offshore and onshore training exercises. Ensuring that company’s endeavour to meet the need for continual improvement and comply with their associated commitment to training and their HSE policy statements. We have previously provided man overboard drills, wind turbine evacuation, SKED stretcher training for internal turbine rescue, onshore fire musters, safety fire solutions, and even how to deal with the arrival of the press in a developing emergency scenario.

3Spires Safety offer occupational health and safety induction training practically and via PowerPoint presentations for various industry sectors with the aim of ensuring the induction is site specific, visually stimulating, informative, and easily deliverable.

3Spires aim to capture all area’s of critical HSE information in order to give client employee’s the best possible start on site. Such as site overviews, organisational structure, company OH&S goals, applicable legislation, site compliance, incident/accident reporting, welfare facilities, hazardous substance control, environmental focus, emergency instructions, competency requirements, disciplinary actions, named first aiders, risk assessment and method statement emphasis, weather conditions and parameters, designated waste areas, drugs and alcohol, vehicles on site, working at height, manual handling, and personal protective equipment.

Our firm provide extensive experience in onshore and offshore Emergency Planning & Preparedness ensuring emergency response plans are user friendly and in line with applicable health, safety & environmental legislation. The initial actions taken in an emergency scenario can be pivotal to the preservation of life, minimizing property damage and curtailing environmental impacts.

Pragmatic Emergency Planning & Preparedness can guide employees under your responsibility as a business to raise the alarm to external emergency services providing precise information so the dispatcher can methodize the correct equipment and trained responders to the unfolding emergency scenario.