Site inspections

Site Safety Inspection Service

NHBC's Site Safety Inspection Service helps site managers to meet the latest health and safety regulations, by setting and maintaining consistently high standards on building sites.

Monitor your performance

NHBC's pro-active inspection service enables site managers to monitor their sites for health and safety performance. Our team of qualified health and safety advisors are trained to carry out safety assessments on a nationally consistent basis.

Full inspection

A typical NHBC site inspection begins with a review of statutory documentation followed by a physical evaluation of current site activities. Inspections are undertaken with the site manager or other authorised persons. Our advisors use an 'arm around the shoulder' approach rather than simply conducting a policing exercise.

Each observation is recorded and allocated a priority rating of either a, b, c, or d, depending on the severity of the problem. Our observations are discussed with the site manager and timescales allocated to resolve the problem areas. The site manager is then able to prioritise issues and deal with the most urgent matters first.

Trained professionals

We maintain a directly employed workforce to carry out site inspections. This ensures continuity of service and the highest professional standards.

Site inspection reports

A site inspection report is sent to the customer within 2 working days of the inspection having been carried out. The report can be posted or emailed, if preferred. As well as conducting a site safety review our advisors also record details of visits made by enforcement agencies and information about accidents and their causes.

NHBC's Site Safety Inspection Service can be carried out in conjunction with other NHBC health and safety services.

Management reports

Our management reports provide a concise, authoritative interpretation of your health and safety performance, based on a consolidation of data gathered during regular site inspections.

The main body of the report comprises an average-weighted quantitative assessment of performance over an agreed period of time.

This summary of information enables you to identify your main areas of risk as well as benchmark your health and safety performance against the sector of the industry that we inspect. NHBC Health & Safety services currently undertakes around 19,000 site inspections annually.

The report includes conclusions and recommendations that address the main areas that need to be monitored to help you improve your overall site health and safety performance. Reports can be prepared quarterly, half-yearly and annually or for a specific time period.

Over time, the reports will build a picture of health and safety performance on site, enabling you to monitor progress in managing health and safety.

For further information and advice please call Gordon Halfacre on 01908 746986 or email ghalfacre@nhbc.co.uk.