Hire Association Europe Safe-HIRE Scheme
Safe-HIRE is the HSE recognised hire industry standard for high levels of health, safety and customer service provision.
For builders, contractors, local authorities or any hire customer, it helps to:
- Identify those hire companyies who achieve a higher than average standards across the hire role – in safety, training and equipment.
- HAE, as the leading trade association for the hire industry, consider Safe-HIRE to be the ultimate in hiring and a target that all hire companies aspire to achieve.
- For customers looking for the cream of the hire industry, they look for those with a Safe-HIRE certification.
Safe-HIRE helps hire companies:
- Establish a clear safety drive across the entire operation. Safety when hiring has become more and more important with new legislation and commitments to improve safety of staff, customers and the public alike, from efforts geared around safety for example electrical testing of equipment right through to provision of certificates for movements of goods.
Safe-HIRE members highlight the benefits, with their customers assured that good safety practice is adhered to throughout the hire company.
- Safety principles outlined in the scheme have been developed in conjunction with HSE and many other bodies to meet the highest levels of performance.
- Safe-HIRE certificated companies are automatically entered onto the CHAS database (The Contractors Health & Safety Assessment Scheme).
Safe-HIRE certified companies will have:
- A high level of health and safety knowledge and procedures.
- A good level of advice and service.
- Strict procedures to implement the best health and safety practice
- Well trained staff to support the customer
- H&S policy documents, injury reporting systems (RIDDOR), First Aid, Risk Assessments, staff and customer training matrix, staff induction forms, employee handbooks.
Safe-HIRE does just what it says in the name, it offers customers the safest possible hire available from professional hirers.
