Case Studies

In the context of an ever-changing retail estate, leading retailer Primark were looking for health and safety assistance with their property refurbishment schemes, and specifically with the provision of principal designer advisor services to help them ensure their projects were carried out safely.

Leading French fashion retailer La Redoute were in need of a ‘competent person’ for health and safety to comply with Regulation 7 of the Management of Health & Safety at Work Regulations 1999. La Redoute engaged Callidus to provide this expertise for them on a consultancy basis, providing technical guidance, competent person service and fire safety training and risk assessments.

Callidus was asked to investigate, provide a gap analysis, advise NHS Estates and support the appointed facilities management provider in developing an action plan for remedial works at one of the NHS Lothian hospitals.

Callidus’ achieved the critical asset management with the additional benefit of improving health and a safety performance and developing a positive cultural change.

We built a strong relationship and created a supportive environment conducive to constructive improvement.

O’Donnell’s Civil Engineers are a civil engineering contractor working primarily on ground works associated with the first phases of construction work such as construction of roads, sewers and excavation of foundations. O’Donnell’s engaged Callidus as their retained competent person for health and safety to enable them to use our specialist advice as and when they needed it.

Templeborough Biomass Power Plant were looking for a competent organisation to undertake the principal designer role as required by the Construction (Design & Management) Regulations 2015 (CDM2015) and to act as a construction health and safety advisor to both CIP and TBPP on a new biomass power plant near Doncaster and other UK projects.

M&S required the services of experienced project managers to assist with the management and implementation of works across a selection of their UK stores.

Across the lifetime of the contract, Callidus has delivered a yearly average of £13 million worth of fabric and plant jobs and have successfully managed multiple land and build projects.

LIFTCo is a PFI project board responsible for a portfolio of healthcare properties in the south of England. The board approached Callidus Health & Safety with a request for a programme of health and safety and fire safety compliance audits to be carried out across its entire portfolio in order to gain an understanding of the levels of health and safety / fire safety compliance in each property.

G4S are a multidisciplinary company who manage a number of assets for major clients nationally. In their capacity as Asset Managers for the Ministry of Justice they are tasked with arranging for a broad range of building improvements across the court and prison sector, working closely with the FM provider at each premises.

To assist them in the fulfilment of this ongoing work stream they have enlisted us as their Health and Safety Advisors, CDMA’s and Project Managers on a variety of projects to provide professional and effective joint support service to Ministry of Justice.

Applied Power Engineering Ltd sought the services of an external consultant to act as their “Competent Person” and assist with the review of their existing health and safety management systems to establish levels of compliance and potential areas of improvement. 

In summer 2018, with another academic year fast approaching, the University of Leicester Leadership Team recognised they had several significant challenges.

In response, Callidus were able to offer a holistic approach and designed a strategic review to assess compliance and management arrangement, a process which identified critical issues.

“In just over a year, Callidus has transformed the H&S strategy at the University.”