Hospitals

120,000 hospital doctors, 400,000 nurses and 25,000 ambulance staff constitute over 1.7 million people employed by the NHS (the world’s fourth largest employer - behind the Chinese People’s Liberation Army, Wal-Mart and the Indian Railways).

In order to deliver their care, hospitals need to ensure they meet a number of environmental, health and safety standards for the welfare of their employees, patients and the public.

How we can help

ESG has a wide range of services to support hospitals in complying with both general and industry specific health and safety obligations. For example, we offer expertise in:

Health and safety, including:

• Compliance audits and site audit programmes
• Advice on the development of policy and risk management systems
• Provision of a Competent Person to ensure you have the necessary skills, when you need them
• Training
• Occupational hygiene
• Food safety
• Drug and alcohol testing
• Sample collection and UKAS accredited analysis for pre-employment screening, as well as random and post-incident testing
• Policy development and advice

Environmental safety, including:

Specialist chemistry testing for suites of elements in:

• Starting materials
• Intermediates and final product
• Containers (syringes, intravenous and dialysis solutions)
• Dangerous goods safety advice
• Fire risk management

Water safety and hygiene for showers and drinking water:

• Compliance audits, risk assessments, training and on-going monitoring programmes
• Chemical and microbiological, including Legionaella sampling and analysis
• Cleaning, chlorination and remedial works

Asbestos identification and management, including:

• Surveys and assessments (with 24/7 emergency call out)
• Policy advice and training
• Hazardous waste separation, disposal and reuse
• Geoenvironmental advice

Construction

• Foundation and materials testing
• Geotechnical site investigation
• Geotechnics and engineering geology design