Retail, Leisure & Hospitality

Areas of particular risk for the retail, leisure and hospitality sectors are swimming pools, showers and hot and cold water distribution systems, with Legionella bacteria able to easily multiply in water between 20 - 45^oC. Drinking water, swimming pools, public showers and spas require constant vigilance to maintain quality and meet the relevant regulatory standards for both chemical content and hygiene. 

SOCOTEC offers a wide range of services to support your organisation’s water safety and hygiene requirements, including compliance audits, advice on policy development and system management, Legionella risk assessments, sampling and training, chemical and microbiological sampling and analysis, cleaning, chlorination and remedial works and ongoing monitoring programmes. To find out more, click here.

Additional services that SOCOTEC’s Environment & Safety team can provide include:

• Contaminated land assessment, remediation and regeneration 
• Asbestos identification and management 
• Surveys and assessments (with 24/7 emergency call out) 
• Hazardous waste separation, disposal and reuse 
• Fire safety and arson investigation. 

Health and safety relies on practical and appropriate risk management to protect your employees and members of the public. Employees working in the retail, leisure and hospitality sectors are prone to a variety of hazards, from manual handling, slips, trips and falls to fire, hazardous substances, all of which SOCOTEC can provide training for.

SOCOTEC can support your business in the training of a Competent Person to ensure that the necessary skills in place to safeguard your business, as well as advise on the development of adequate health and safety policies and procedures. We also offer sample collection and UKAS-accredited analysis for pre-employment screening, random and post-incident testing, corporate compliance audits and site audit programmes.

Other areas where SOCOTEC can assist with ensuring the health, safety and welfare of your employees includes but is by no means limited to:

• Risk assessments and risk management advice
• Training and ongoing monitoring programmes 
• Occupational hygiene 
• Food safety 
• Drug and alcohol testing. 

Click here to find out more about how SOCOTEC’s Health & Safety consultancy can support you, or alternatively, visit our online Shop to check out our range of health and safety training courses. 

SOCOTEC provides a variety of testing, inspection and compliance services to support you with a host of environmental-related issues, including:

• Environmental testing and monitoring 
• Dust/air quality monitoring and testing 
• Stack emissions testing 
• Waste management and landfill expertise 
• Industrial effluent monitoring, analysis and advice 
• Environment due diligence
• Environmental chemistry expertise. 

SOCOTEC’s Infrastructure division is best placed to advise on a host of structural and geotechnical concerns, such as:

• Ground investigation 
• Geotechnical testing and monitoring 
• Geophysical, hydrographic and topographic land surveys 
• Foundation testing 
• Geotechnical and environmental advice 
• Materials testing (including road pavement, concrete, aggregate and in-situ lime and cement) 
• Structural investigations 
• Material compliance testing for chemical and physical properties 
• Proof loading for staging, crash barriers, crowd crush barriers 
• Pressure testing of fire extinguishers and burst testing of pipes 
• Lubricant and fuel analysis.