Text Box: Q-West Consultants specialise in Health and Safety matters with focus on Safety Audits, Safety Statements, Safety Surveys, Safety Awareness Seminars, Safety Training Courses, Preliminary Health and Safety Plans, Site Safety Plans and Site Specific Safety Statements. We also offer advice on a wide range of safety topics….

YOUR RESPONSIBILITY
Text Box: Back pain in the workplace is an affliction that affects a very large percentage of our population. It is estimated that over 30% of all accidents in the workplace have their genesis in back injuries resulting from improper lifting techniques. Unfortunately, damage to our backs is NOT something that will go away permanently….

AVOID BACK INJURY
Text Box: Safety Statements are working documents and therefore need to be updated constantly and amended to ensure their relevance and timeliness. Safety audits and surveys provide you with an outside, objective assessment of your safety control measures, safety awareness culture and ethos, Resources allocated to accident prevention….

A LEGAL REQUIREMENT
Text Box: The main Act & the Regulations require you, the Employer, to provide a safe place of work. The workplace therefore must be accident and injury free and without risk to health to your Employees. The immediate treatment of the victim of an accident in your workplace could save lives and prevent the results of an accident….

ERGONOMICS, FIRST AID AND MORE . . .
Text Box: To provide your Employees with information in relation to in-Company safety culture, Seminars can be offered on a range of issues. The duration and programme content can be tailor-made to suit your activities and target audience. A Safety Seminar will take your Safety Programme to the next level ensuring that all….

SAFETY AWARENESS
Text Box: In recent years, the two main areas of industrial activity recording most fatalities and injuries were construction & farming. Even with the current downturn in construction activity, Site Safety is of the utmost importance. The Annual Report 2008 of the Health & Safety Authority states that  “a total of 7,019 inspections were carried out….

SAFETY MANAGEMENT

Among our clients are:

 

Galway Bay FM | Galway Airport | Hacketts Bookmakers | Forster Court Hotel | Leenaune Hotel | MMH Ltd. | Cleary’s Loss Assessors | Mil-Tek Ltd | Kelly Display Contracts Ltd | Central Park Nursing Home | Cigna Healthcare | JFC Manufacturing | Spar Supermarkets | CBS Midleton | Colaiste Iosagain | Galway Rural Development | WestCan Developments | Mayo Abbey Community Care | St. Joseph’s Special School | Autism West Ltd | COPE | Abalta |  Team BDS | Galway Stainless Ltd.