H&C News meets with suppliers regularly to keep up to date with the latest product and service innovations, aiming to get the inside track on what companies offer to the market and how it is delivered.
This week, we met with Simon Hoe, Head of Digital Marking of Shieldyourself at their offices in Manchester to gain a better understanding of the business. Shieldyourself is the UK’s leading health and safety, fire safety and food safety innovator — providing regulatory compliance for a range of businesses in the retail and hospitality sector.
Simon Hoe, Head of Digital Marking of ShieldyourselfToday you are the UK’s leading compliance specialist, but where did it all begin?
Shieldyourself was born out of a desire to provide a hassle-free solution to regulatory compliance that could easily be applied and tailored to the needs of individual organisations throughout the retail and hospitality sector. Founded in 2003 by Mark Flanagan, who remains managing director of the business, Shieldyourself has garnered a reputation for exceptional quality standards — something that is reflected in our numerous awards and accolades, including a Commendation for Excellence awarded by the British Quality Foundation in 2014.
Thanks to our experience and expertise as qualified Environmental Health Professionals, we’ve generated a unique approach to health and safety, fire safety and food safety that has enabled the business to grow exponentially over the past decade — creating an adaptive platform in which to innovate, improve and develop our knowledge base.
What kind of compliance services do you offer and how can these help businesses to remain safe and legal?
Through our comprehensive approach to compliance regulations, we offer both turnkey and bespoke compliance services to a variety of businesses and organisations across the retail and hospitality industry. After carefully assessing a business’ individual compliance requirements, we’ll suggest the best and most suitable service for them depending on what is required to attain complete legal compliance.
For the majority of our clients, we carry out across-the-board audits that provide useful insight into the suitability and effectiveness of existing management systems, training and staff procedures. Our team of experienced Environmental Health auditors visit prospective clients individually, providing bespoke and flexible auditing and guidance services that are useful in highlighting areas of the business that require improvement to attain compliance and legality.
Aside from our comprehensive auditing process, we also offer a complete range of services that are specifically designed to help businesses improve their existing processes, in the view to achieving full compliance as quickly as possible. These services include overseeing a client’s policy documentation to ensure it is all up to date; providing management and staff with comprehensive training in health and safety, fire safety and food safety through our My Training Academy programme; carrying out intensive risk assessments, and providing 24-7 access to our special Compliance Centre platform — which allows businesses to monitor and oversee their on-going compliance measures via a personal, interactive dashboard.
Businesses in the retail and hospitality sector may be unsure of the steps required to achieve full compliance — what steps do Shieldyourself take to ensure businesses invest in the appropriate compliance services?
Thanks to our flexible and bespoke compliance services solutions, we’re able to work closely with businesses to ensure they obtain the relevant services that can set them on the right path to achieving full compliance. From the initial enquiry to a visit by one of our professional health and safety experts — our team are dedicated to creating tailored compliance services that adhere to a business’ individual requirements.
What makes Shieldyourself’s compliance services offering different from your competitors?
Combining our integrity, flair and creativity with the very latest technology and innovation; Shieldyourself offer a unique approach to compliance and safety that’s both comprehensive and highly effective. Through the on-going integration of our knowledge management cycle of improvement, businesses will see rapid improvement in their compliance procedure — helping them to not only attain compliance, but also retain it and improve upon it in the future.
By offering a complete range of compliance services in health and safety, fire safety and food safety, Shieldyourself are well placed to take the hassle out of a businesses’ compliance management.
H & C News comment
Health and safety, fire safety and food safety are all areas of vital importance to all businesses within hospitality and catering. So it was enlightening to hear from Simon how working with Shieldyourself can help hospitality and catering businesses ensure they are on top of all three.
For more information on our complete range of compliance services, contact the friendly and helpful Shieldyourself team using any of the methods listed below…
Address: 12 Little Lever Street, Northern Quarter, Manchester M1 1HR
Tel: 020 3740 3744
For our Website click here
E-mail: hello@shieldyourself.co.uk