Competent Person Services in Derby

Professional Competent Person Services in Derby

Every employer must appoint one or more competent persons to help them meet their health and safety duties. That is a legal requirement, not a recommendation, and for most small and medium businesses the practical answer is an external appointment. We act as your competent person, giving you qualified advice on call without the cost of an in-house appointment.

Based in Coalville, Leicestershire, Integral Safety is ideally positioned to serve businesses in Derby. Choosing a local consultancy means a named consultant who knows your site and can attend when it matters, rather than a call centre and a ticket number.

Derby manufacturers need a competent person who can talk about guarding, isolation, LEV and exposure limits without needing it all explained first. Generic advice does not go far in an engineering environment, and shop floor staff can tell immediately whether the person advising them understands the work.

The other Derby-specific need is having somebody available when a customer audit lands. Those often come with short notice and specific technical questions, and having a competent person who already knows the plant makes that a manageable event.

Derby is one of the country's leading centres for advanced manufacturing and engineering, with aerospace, rail and automotive at its core and a deep supply chain of specialist SMEs feeding them. That supply chain is where most of our Derby work sits: precision engineering, fabrication, surface treatment and assembly firms who face higher-hazard processes and demanding customer audits.

Business parks and estates we work on

Getting to you

Derby is about 30 minutes from Coalville up the A38 or A50. We regularly work along the Ascot Drive and Raynesway corridor and out to Pride Park and Sinfin.

Recurring issues we come across doing this work locally. If any of these sound familiar, they are all fixable.

• Manufacturers with excellent quality systems and no equivalent for safety
• Technical questions from customer auditors that nobody in the business can answer
• Machinery modified in-house over the years with no reassessment
• Health surveillance obligations known about but never actually started

• Meet your duty under the Management of Health and Safety at Work Regulations 1999
• Chartered-level advice at a fraction of an in-house salary
• Someone who already knows your business when something goes wrong
• Insurers and clients satisfied that competent advice is in place
• Keep pace with legislative change without tracking it yourself
• Predictable cost rather than crisis-driven consultancy fees

We provide competent person services throughout Derby and surrounding areas, including:

Why Choose Integral Safety?