Routine, documented health & safety inspections of your premises and sites — the regular set of competent eyes that finds hazards before an incident or an HSE inspector does. CMIOSH consultants, monthly or quarterly, UK-wide. Since 1984.
A workplace inspection is a physical, observational check of your premises or site — walking the workplace, watching how work is actually done, talking to staff and examining equipment to spot hazards and unsafe practice. It is distinct from an audit: an inspection looks at physical conditions and behaviour on the day, while an audit examines the management system behind them.
There is no law that names “inspections” as a specific duty — but Section 2 of the Health and Safety at Work etc. Act 1974 and Regulation 5 of the Management of Health and Safety at Work Regulations 1999 require every employer to proactively monitor their risk controls. Routine inspections are the standard, practical way to discharge that monitoring duty — and to find problems while they are cheap and easy to fix.
KeyOstas delivers scheduled inspections — typically monthly or quarterly, set to your risk profile — each one a structured walk-through producing a documented Site Inspection Report: findings benchmarked against the relevant legislation, with prioritised, owner-assigned actions.
Section 2 of the Health and Safety at Work etc. Act 1974 and Regulation 5 of MHSWR 1999 require employers to monitor and review their health and safety arrangements. Routine, documented workplace inspections are the recognised method of meeting that proactive monitoring duty.
A structured, repeatable inspection programme — delivered by a CMIOSH consultant on the frequency your risk profile demands.
A systematic walk of your premises or site against an inspection schedule built for your operations.
We watch how tasks are actually performed — not just static conditions — to catch unsafe practice.
Plant, access equipment, welfare facilities, housekeeping, signage and fire precautions reviewed on each visit.
Short discussions with people on the floor to surface near misses and concerns that paperwork misses.
A written Site Inspection Report — findings benchmarked against the relevant legislation, scored and prioritised.
Each finding becomes a tracked action; the next visit checks that the last visit's actions were closed out.
Four reasons UK employers put KeyOstas on a routine inspection schedule.
Five CMIOSH-grade consultants — Chartered Members of IOSH, the highest grade IOSH awards. Most one-person UK consultancies hold no Chartered grade at all.
Our lead consultant is listed on the Occupational Safety and Health Consultants Register — the cross-body register endorsed by HSE, IOSH and IEMA. Verify us directly on OSHCR.
No junior account managers, no offshored advice lines. The Chartered consultant who scopes your engagement on the free call is the consultant who delivers it.
Findings closed, not just listed. Documents your team will actually use. The benchmark is whether this made your business safer.
From first call to delivery, the Chartered consultant you meet is the consultant who does the work — no handoffs, no junior advisors.
Talk to a Chartered consultant. We map your current state, your regulatory exposure and your priorities. No obligation, no pitch.
Written scope, deliverables, the named consultant who will lead, and a fixed fee or retainer rate — in your inbox within one working day.
Site work, documentation and ongoing competent-person support if you need it. The consultant who scoped the work is the consultant who delivers it.
A one-off inspection is fixed-scope project work; a routine inspection programme sits naturally inside a retained advisory package.
A standalone workplace inspection with a documented Site Inspection Report and prioritised action plan. Written proposal within 24 hours of the scoping call.
A scheduled inspection programme — monthly or quarterly — plus ongoing competent-person support, inside a retained package. Silver tier and above include Competent Person nomination.
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An inspection is a physical, observational check — walking the workplace to spot hazards and unsafe practice on the day. An audit is deeper and systemic: it reviews the management system behind those hazards, including policies, procedures and records, against current law. You need both; they answer different questions.
There is no law that names “inspections” as a duty. But Section 2 of the Health and Safety at Work etc. Act 1974 and Regulation 5 of MHSWR 1999 require employers to proactively monitor their risk controls — and routine documented inspections are the recognised way to meet that monitoring duty.
Frequency should be set by your risk profile. For most organisations a monthly or quarterly schedule is appropriate; higher-risk sites may need more frequent visits. Your own risk assessments should inform the interval.
A competent person — with sufficient training, knowledge and experience for your hazards. That can be a suitably trained internal person or an external H&S consultant. KeyOstas inspections are delivered by CMIOSH (Chartered) consultants for an independent, credible result.
A KeyOstas Site Inspection Report records what was found, benchmarks it against the relevant legislation, scores it and lists prioritised actions — each with an owner and a target date. The following visit checks that the previous visit's actions were closed.
HSE inspectors look for evidence that you are managing risk — suitable risk assessments, effective controls, a clear H&S policy, training records, and proactive monitoring. A routine inspection programme both prepares you for an HSE visit and demonstrates the monitoring HSE expects to see.
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