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Pick up the phone whenever a question lands — a tricky risk assessment, an awkward contractor, a new process. Practical answers in plain English, with no meter running.
Service
Your named Competent Person.
Every business in Great Britain is required by law to appoint one or more competent persons to help it meet its health & safety duties. Make that person Safepippin — a Chartered (CMIOSH) professional on the end of the phone, keeping you legal, confident and audit-ready all year round.
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The legal duty
A legal requirement — not a nice-to-have.
Regulation 7 of the Management of Health & Safety at Work Regulations 1999 requires every employer to appoint one or more competent persons to assist in complying with health & safety law. It sits on top of your overarching duties under the Health & Safety at Work etc. Act 1974 — and it isn't optional.
The Regulations are clear that you should look inside your own organisation first, but where you don't have someone with the right skills, knowledge, experience and training, you must bring in external competent advice. That's exactly where we come in. Appoint Safepippin and you have a Chartered safety practitioner formally named as your competent person — the source of advice the law says every business needs, without the cost of a full-time hire.
Your advice is provided by Dominic Gibbons CMIOSH, a Chartered Member of the Institution of Occupational Safety & Health. That Chartered status is the recognised benchmark of competence — it's the difference between a tick-box template and genuinely defensible advice if the HSE ever comes knocking.
What's included
Everything a safety department does — for a fraction of the cost.
One fixed, predictable retainer puts a Chartered professional in your corner. Here's what being our competent-person client looks like in practice.
Document & RAMS review
We review and sign off your risk assessments, method statements (RAMS), COSHH assessments and safe systems of work against COSHH 2002, PUWER 1998 and the standards that apply to your trade.
Attending site
When something genuinely needs eyes on the ground — a new site, a near miss, a concern raised by staff — we come out, walk the job and give you a clear, prioritised view of what to fix.
Audit support
Internal audits and gap analysis to keep you aligned to ISO 45001 and ready for client, insurer or accreditation audits — Constructionline, SafeContractor, CHAS and Achilles.
Your named contact
We're the competent person named for your clients, insurers and principal contractors. When a main contractor's PQQ asks who your H&S adviser is, you give them us — Chartered and verifiable.
Legal year-round
Legislation shifts and so does your business. We keep your policies, assessments and RIDDOR 2013 reporting current — so compliance is a steady state, not an annual panic.
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Who it's for
Built for businesses without H&S in-house.
You don't need a safety department on the payroll to be safe and compliant — you need the right advice at the right moments. This is for two kinds of business in particular.
SMEs with no in-house H&S
Growing firms where the directors are wearing the safety hat alongside everything else. We take it off your plate and give you a Chartered professional on call — proportionate to your real risks, never gold-plated.
Contractors told to appoint one
A main contractor or principal contractor has asked you to name a competent person before you can start on site under CDM 2015. We become that named, credible appointment — and get your RAMS and paperwork over the line.
How it works
Up and running in three steps.
Appointing your competent person is quick and painless. We do the heavy lifting so you can get back to running the business.
01Step 01
Understand
We sit down with you, learn your sites, trades and real risks, and review what you already have in place — a clear-eyed picture before we touch a thing.
02Step 02
Plan
You receive a prioritised action plan mapped to the legislation that actually applies to you, and we're formally appointed as your named competent person under Reg 7.
03Step 03
Embed
Proportionate systems go in, your team knows who to call, and we stay on hand all year — reviewing, advising and keeping you compliant as you grow.
The law doesn't ask you to become a safety expert. It asks you to have access to one. That's the whole job — being the competent voice our clients can call before a decision, not after an incident.Dominic Gibbons CMIOSH · Safepippin Compliance
Works hand in hand
Often paired with
Competent-person clients frequently lean on these alongside their retainer — all from the same Chartered source, all joined up.
Risk Management
Hazard identification, risk assessments and control measures kept current and aligned to your ISO 45001 management system.
Accident Investigation
Root-cause investigation and RIDDOR 2013 reporting support when something goes wrong — so it doesn't happen twice.
Supplier Onboarding
Get accreditation-ready for Constructionline, SafeContractor, CHAS and Achilles — with your competent person on record.
Appoint your competent person
Compliance without complexity.
Tell us about your business and we'll show you exactly how a Chartered competent person keeps you legal, confident and audit-ready — no obligation, no jargon.