GEM Safety Solutions is a Scottish Agritourism Trade Member
Gillian Mclean of GEM Safety Solutions is a former inspector for the Health and Safety Exec and who acts as a consultant to many businesses in Scotland, specialising in farms, country estates, golf courses and tourism with over 25 years’ experience.
Gillian supported the development of a health and safety toolkit for Scottish Agritourism which can be accessed securely by members in the Member Hub and via the Tayl Digital Training Resource.
How Gillian and GEM Safety Solutions Can Help Your Business
Everyone knows that health and safety is about legal compliance and keeping people safe. But did you know that good health and safety can do much more than this?
It can:
• Make your business run smoothly
• Give you happier, more productive employees:
• Give you peace of mind and reduce stress
• Save you money in the longer term.
What’s not to like!? But how can managing health and safety do this?
Providing Solutions to Health & Safety Problems
Business A – despite running a safety-conscious business with competent staff, they relied on subcontractors, selected by word-of-mouth, for specialised tasks. Unfortunately, a subcontractor’s negligence caused a serious injury to a customer. The aftermath was severe: HSE investigation, reputational damage and immense stress. Critically, the subcontractor lacked appropriate insurance, and the customer pursued a legal case against Business A directly.
The Solution – I help customers like Business A develop and implement proactive contractor management systems. This demonstrates “due diligence”, shows that reasonable steps were taken to ensure safety and compliance and gives peace of mind.
Business B – several minor accidents followed by a serious one, resulted in low staff morale. The serious accident meant that a key employee was off work for weeks with significant replacement labour costs.
The Solution – I work with customers like Business B to proactively identify health and safety improvements. This helped reduce the risks that caused previous accidents, saving money in the longer term. Staff morale improved as they saw concerns being addressed and genuine efforts made to improve their safety.
Special Offer for Scottish Agritourism Members
Gillian is offering £100 off her regular day rate or £50 off a half day, to help you focus on your top H & S priority.
If you want your business to run more smoothly or you need to cut costs in the medium to long term or maybe you want clarity on your legal responsibilities, a H&S audit or a contractor management system that actually works, Gillian can help.
This offer is available until 28th February 2026. Get in touch for an initial chat on the support available.
Examples of what Gillian could do for you include:
• A half day ‘workshop’ for you, and your managers, in what your legal responsibilities are and how to prepare risk assessments: or
• A day spent talking to you, looking around your business and auditing how well you are complying with current law and best practice then giving you a report with tailored, prioritised actions to take
• A day spent developing, and helping to implement, a contractor management system so that you know that the subcontractors you have working for you are competent to do the work safely and that you have all the paperwork you need in place if anything were to go wrong
• A half day’s training for your staff in the main hazards they are likely to face, how you are controlling them (through your risk assessments) and what they should do if they need to carry out a dynamic risk assessment
• A half day where you have the opportunity to chat about any pressing health and safety issue(s) you have, with the aim of helping you find practical, common-sense solutions
• A half day reviewing your paperwork (risk assessments, safety policies etc. to make sure they are suitable and sufficient and reflect how you, and your employees, actually work)
• A half day / day (depending on the size of your business and the nature of your premises) carrying out a fire risk assessment and providing you with a written report showing what you are doing well and what you need to concentrate on, to keep people safe
CONTACT GEM SAFETY SOLUTIONS
07766 689474