Ecclesiastical
Understanding your needs
Working with dioceses and parishes for more than 15 years
A positive approach
Good health and safety is a concrete expression of pastoral care.
With roots in ecclesiastical work, we understand the unique challenges faced by dioceses, and places of worship. We combine a friendly, professional style with practical support, working closely with trustees and leadership to equip clergy, staff, and volunteers with the knowledge and tools to keep people and buildings safe.
Benefits
Spend wisely
Good health and safety strategy helps to target your resources where they're needed most.
Share knowledge
Access to a library of resources developed for the church covering a range of topics from general health and safety to flower arranging, votive candles, liturgy and night shelter projects.
Be better protected
Having relevant policies and practices in place gives you greater protection for your people and buildings.
Manage other duties
Our online system makes easy work of managing other aspects of your operations such as property you rent out, building projects and diocesan or parish events.
Delegate with confidence
A better understanding of health and safety issues gives greater autonomy to individual parishes.
Gain control
Have a clear understanding of health and safety across your diocese, engage people in good health and safety habits and benefit from our friendly, experienced approach.
Strategic Support
We work with your diocesan management team to develop your health and safety strategy and identify resources needed to implement it.
Audit
We can review your existing policies and procedures to prepare a gap analysis and structured action plan across your diocese, to promote your strengths and address weaknesses.
Competent Person Service
Where you don’t have in house expertise, we act as your health and safety competent person.
This service includes providing expert help and support to nominated individuals and an annual review of progress against aims and objectives.
Health & Safety Strategy
We can advise on a practical and proportionate strategy for discharging your health and safety obligations across the diocese.
We would then develop your health and safety policy, and support you to implement your strategy.
Fire Strategy
We can support your diocese to develop a fire safety strategy to comply with legislative and insurance requirements.
This includes defining of roles and responsibilities in the context of fire safety and developing arrangements for the implementation of your fire strategy.
Operational Support
Our expert team of consultants are on hand to support parishes and other diocesan operations in all aspects of their health and safety.
Health & Safety Helpdesk
Our helpdesk is designed to provide expert health and fire safety advice directly to your clergy, paid or volunteer workers when they need it. This service can also be activated to cover periods of absence for your regular support network.
Site Visits
We are experts across a range of areas and carry out site visits and inspections for general health and safety matters or specific projects in areas such as fire safety, accessibility; CDM; feasibility etc.
Fire Risk Assessment
Our expert knowledge of ecclesiastical buildings and activities ensures that our fire risk assessments address the unique features of Catholic premises and provide practical and proportional recommendations for you to take forward.
Fire Assessor Support
We can also provide resources, guidance, and support to your own fire risk assessors. This helps to ensure consistent reporting when engaging multiple assessors, or where your chosen assessors have limited experience in catholic or church premises.