What does a Health & Safety Audit from RB Health and Safety Solutions involve?

A Health & Safety Audit from RB Health and Safety Solutions is a review of your health and safety management system, positioned on the company's site as "an essential part of your health and safety management system." It is one of three core service lines the firm offers alongside consultancy and training, and it is aimed at organisations that need to check how well their existing arrangements are working. If you already have health and safety policies, risk assessments or training in place and want an external check on them, an audit is the relevant service; if you are starting from nothing, consultancy is likely the better first step.

What the audit is for

RB Health and Safety Solutions describes the audit as essential to the management system rather than as a one-off legal requirement. In practice that means the audit looks at whether what you have written down and what you actually do line up, and where the gaps are. The site frames the wider business as providing "high-quality, common-sense Health and Safety Audits, advice and training" to companies, local authorities and individuals since 2003, so the audit sits inside a broader advisory relationship rather than as a standalone inspection product.

Because the site does not publish a fixed audit scope, the practical way to define yours is to agree it in advance. Useful things to settle before booking:

• Which sites or activities are in scope — one office, a theatre production, or multiple locations.
• What you want out of it — a compliance check, evidence for a client or insurer, or a baseline before a larger project.
• Who will be involved on the day — someone who knows how work is actually done, not only the person who wrote the policy.
• What you will do with the findings — an audit that produces a report nobody actions has limited value.

How it fits with the other services

The site presents audits, consultancy and training as complementary, and the audit often identifies which of the other two you need next.

The consultancy side is delivered by a team registered with the Occupational Safety and Health Consultants Register (OSHCR), which the site presents as assurance that you are dealing with a competent consultant. Training is offered both face-to-face and as eLearning, with eLearning covering topics such as Fire Safety, Safe Lifting, Control of Substances Hazardous to Health, Mental Wellbeing at Work and Time Management.

Booking and next steps

The site provides a booking entry point for the audit ("Book now") and a contact route by phone on 0845 257 1489 or by email at [email protected]. There is also a course registration page that is currently open, and a resources section alongside latest news and a blog.

The site does not publish audit pricing, turnaround times or a standard audit checklist, so those are questions to raise directly when you enquire. Ask specifically:

1. What the audit covers and what the output looks like (report, action plan, follow-up).
2. Whether the auditor needs site access and how long they will be on site.
3. What you need to prepare beforehand — policies, risk assessments, accident records, training logs.
4. Whether follow-up support or a re-audit is included or charged separately.

Who this suits

The service is a reasonable fit for offices, theatres and similar organisations that already have some health and safety structure and want an independent review, particularly where the audit will feed into consultancy or training. It is less useful as a first move if you have no management system at all — in that case, starting with consultancy to build the basics, then auditing once they are in place, avoids paying for a review of something that does not yet exist.