About
Safegard
Safegard is a limited company
within the Sodexo Group. It acts as an internal food safety, health &
safety and environmental issues consultancy for the group and its clients, and
offers these same services on the open market to organisations such as schools
and colleges, universities, hotels and restaurants and other commercial
organisations.
Most of Safegard's
consultants have at one time been enforcement officers within local
authorities. All are qualified by examination and are variously members of the
Chartered Institute of Environmental Health (CIEH), the
Health
and Safety Management
Safegard has developed a
wide-ranging, cost-effective health and safety management system that is
applicable to almost all business sectors. It also has meticulously prepared
specialist versions for schools, universities, hotels and restaurants.
It is not just another manual
full of legislation and technical documents but is designed to provide simple
straight-forward practical assistance. It is based on ‘how to do’ rather than
‘what to do’, whether this be risk assessment, safe systems of work or the
inspection of a workplace. The Management of Health and Safety at Work
Regulations 1999 will determine that health and safety cannot be done for you
by an outside organisation but must have internal 'ownership'. This fits exactly
with the 'how to' system created by Safegard in 1994.
Our activities and services
encompass safety audits and inspections, crisis management, helpline and update
facilities. Manuals are available via the Internet making easy access to up to
date information and print-outs, or on-screen use of forms, only a click away.
The 500 page manual has become a thing of the past.
Our health and safety management
system has been examined and approved for the government sponsored Lead
Authority scheme and has received positive comment from enforcement authorities
such as the HSE.
Environmental
Issues
Green issues are becoming
prominent in business activity. It is Safegard’s
contention that good ‘green’ policies and benefits to a company’s bottom-line
are synonymous.
Safegard’s Environmental
Manager, Paul Bracegirdle, is an Associate Member of the
Food
Safety & Hygiene
At the core of Safegard’s activities is its food safety expertise. We look
after over 2500 catering operations in the
We developed a practical food
safety system incorporating the principles of Assured Safe Catering or, as
Regulation would have it, a Hazard Analysis Critical Control Point (HACCP)
system. It’s easy to use by any caterer and meets with the approval of
environmental health officers around the country. It is ‘accredited’ by the
Department of Health’s Home Authority scheme.
As with health and safety our
activities and services include food safety audits and inspections, crisis
management, helpline and update facilities. All manuals are available via the
Internet.
Safegard also provides a comprehensive
food supplier audit service. Certain specialist food sectors require specific
expertise, such as meat hygiene, and we can provide that expertise. In the near
future all third-party inspection services will have to be accredited. This we
wholeheartedly support, having long been advocates of accrediting auditors, not
suppliers, to ensure consistency of inspection standards.
For
more information please contact Safegard
Telephone
number 0161-873-6840 or Fax number 0161-873-6850
or on email: safegard@sodexo.co.uk