Health and Safety within Motor Vehicle Repair Services
Within the last 5 years there have been over 8000 injuries and 24 fatalities within the Motor Vehicle Repair
industry.
Some of the key areas where these incidents occur include:
- Manual handing of vehicle parts and tyres
- Exposure to hazardous substances such as isocyanates within paints
- Falls from height e.g. into vehicle pits and from the top of commercial vehicles
- Dermatitis from vehicle engine oils and cleaning substances
- Vehicle emissions
- Struck by moving vehicles in the workshop and during roadside recoveries
- Slips and trips of spilt substances and trailing cables
In order to maintain health and safety standards within the Motor Vehicle Repair industry it is important to
identify the most frequent and serious risks and adopt the necessary precautions, taking account of time, money
and resources.
So how can our health and safety consultants help?
We can help your organisation work safely, and reduce the risk of injuries and exposure to harmful substances.
By analysing your work activities our health and safety consultants will be able to ensure that all the
necessary control measures, maintenance procedures, monitoring, and provision of all the relevant health and
safety information, instruction and training are being implemented.
Typical services our health and safety consultants provide include:
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Undertaking risk assessments of the motor vehicle repair and servicing activities that you
undertake.
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Ensuring that health and safety training plans are formulated for high-risk elements of the
business, such as spray painting and welding.
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Provision of Occupational Health services in the form of lung function and hearing tests,
urinalysis, and blood screening.
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Ensuring that all relevant machinery and lifting equipment is subject to any relevant statutory
inspections and routine maintenance, and that all the relevant safety features are in place.
At Mentor our health and safety consultants want to provide guidance and instruction for employers and
employees who run and work within the Motor Vehicle Repair industry. Our intention is to help you manage your
own health and safety arrangements in safer, healthier and more proactive ways.
If you would like to know more about our Health and Safety within Motor Vehicle Repair safety packages then please contact one of
our health and safety consultants on 08444 933 062.