Competent Person Services in Leicester

Professional Competent Person Services in Leicester

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 Leicester. 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.

Regulation 7 of the Management of Health and Safety at Work Regulations 1999 requires every employer to appoint one or more competent persons. A great many Leicester businesses are unaware of this, and a good number of those who do know it have quietly nominated somebody internally who has no relevant training.

For a business without genuine in-house expertise, an external appointment is usually the practical answer. It gives you somebody to ring when something happens, which is worth considerably more than a folder of policies.

Leicester is the largest city in the East Midlands and its economy is unusually broad. Textiles and garment manufacturing still employ thousands across the north and east of the city, sitting alongside food production, plastics, printing, logistics and a large public sector anchored by two universities and the hospital trust. That mix means a consultant walking into a Leicester business could be looking at industrial sewing machines one day and a commercial kitchen the next.

Business parks and estates we work on

Getting to you

Leicester is about 20 minutes from our Coalville base on the A50 and M1, so we can usually offer a same-week site visit and, for urgent work, often next-day. We cover the city centre and every one of the outlying business parks.

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

• A nominated internal person with no training and no time allocated to the role
• Businesses unaware the appointment is a legal requirement at all
• Policies bought years ago from a template provider and never revisited
• Nobody available to advise when an incident happens out of hours

• 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 Leicester and surrounding areas, including:

Why Choose Integral Safety?