Health and safety

We advise businesses on health and safety law and practice, and therefore have a responsibility to match the advice we give to clients with our own performance. To that end, we have a formal health and safety policy, signed by the chief executive, demonstrating our commitment to maintaining a healthy and safe workplace.

We are committed to training all our people in the key risks affecting their health and safety at work – manual handling, use of display screen equipment, first aid, fire and emergencies.

Health and safety in London

In London, our health and safety committee includes representatives from each practice group and from business services, and operates an online consultation service. The committee consults on anything the firm does that affects health and safety. We investigate all accidents to identify trends and prevent recurrences.

We also have three full-time health and safety professionals with experience and qualifications in all aspects of health and safety risk management. This includes supervising internal construction projects and carrying out risk assessments and audits on a range of topics, including the most recent requirements for assessing fire precautions and working at normal height.

Accident trends

We are looking to establish a process that will enable us to gather consistent data on accidents and other aspects of health and safety from all our offices.

In London, the number of reported incidents has reduced since 2006/2007 and we hope to see this trend continue.