Risk Management Services

Trust leads to more trust

James Hallam is an independent Lloyd’s broker with a dedicated team of experienced insurance professionals who care about protecting your business.

Trust leads to more trust

James Hallam is an independent Lloyd’s broker with a dedicated team of experienced insurance professionals who care about protecting your business.

Risk
management
services

From one-off consultations to comprehensive, ongoing compliance support, we offer a full range of risk management services to businesses of all sizes. We will tailor our risk management service to meet your unique business needs, helping you to manage both everyday risks and exceptional challenges more effectively.

Our services include

Our auditors are a team of highly experienced risk management and health and safety professionals from a wide variety of industry backgrounds. They offer expert auditing and inspection services in accordance with global best practice guidelines, all meeting the latest ISO and industry standards.

Whether you need a one-off inspections or regular ongoing audits, we can help you reach and maintain compliance across your organisation. We can design our audits and inspections to meet your own management requirements, yet we can also provide you with industry-specific audit and inspection templates based on industry best practice, standards and legislation.

We can work with you to develop a comprehensive and fully documented and integrated business continuity management system that complies with ISO 22301.

Alternatively, we can review your current arrangements to help you transition from BS 25999 to ISO 22301. We can also put your plans and people to the test with engaging training and testing, involving engaging exercises based on real-world scenarios.

Our expert services include:

  • Business continuity planning
  • Crisis management
  • Business impact analysis
  • Emergency planning and emergency exercises
  • Training, including resilience training
  • Audits
  • Helpline

Our specialist CDM team includes highly experienced health and safety professionals with extensive construction expertise and experience. They offer tailored CDM consultancy services in accordance with the latest regulations.

Our CDM support includes:

  • CDM coordinator services
  • Planning, managing and monitoring health and safety in the pre-construction stage of projects
  • Ensuring that duty holders, in particular designers, apply the general principle of prevention
  • Identifying client information relevant to health and safety
  • Providing:
    • Relevant information to duty holders
    • Information to the principal contractor to help them plan, manage, monitor and co-ordinate health and safety in the construction phase
    • Construction phase plans
    • Health and safety files
  • Monitoring ongoing health and safety design
  • Preparing health and safety files
  • Drawing up notification calculations and F10 submissions

We provide a comprehensive range of ROSPA and IATP-approved e-learning training courses. These will provide your staff with the opportunity to learn approved educational subjects in their own time and at their own pace, outside of the traditional classroom environment.

E-Learning courses

  • Food safety
    • Levels 1 and 2 Manufacturing
    • Levels 1 and 2 Catering
    • Levels 1 and 2 Retail
  • Fire
    • Basic fire awareness
    • Fire extinguisher
    • Fire marshall
    • Fire marshall care homes
  • Display screen
    • Equipment awareness
    • Assessor training
  • Emergency first aid at work
  • Manual handling
  • Abrasive wheels
  • Work at height
  • Basic Legionella management
  • Asbestos awareness for architects and designers
  • Working safely

We have many years’ experience of delivering bespoke fire risk assessments across a huge variety of sectors and buildings. Our national fire risk assessment team offers a comprehensive and cost-effective service to help you follow best practice guidelines and meet your legislative requirements.

What a Fire Risk Assessment offers your business

  • A meticulous assessment of fire risks at your premises, undertaken by one of our highly qualified assessors
  • A realistic overview of compliance in your business at a moment in time
  • A clear action plan for making improvements and recording progress
  • The peace of mind of knowing that your premises’ fire risks have been thoroughly appraised and that they meet legislative requirements.

We work with food suppliers and manufacturers of all sizes, from national and international chains to local cafés and takeaways.

Let us manage all the stress and hassle of food safety audits for you. Our specialist food safety team will advise on the best and most appropriate policies, procedures, and systems for your business. We’ll also train your team in the safest and smartest ways to work with food.

Our auditors are committed to clear communication, so your team will know precisely what they need to do, and how they need to do it. With our tailored support, your business will achieve the highest hygiene ratings, which can give you a strong competitive edge.

We can provide:

  • Food safety audits
  • HACCP systems
  • Supplier assessments
  • Training courses
  • E-learning courses

We will work closely with you to develop an in-house or external training programme that meets your company’s specific needs.

Our health and safety training support can include:

  • Legionella management
  • Asbestos awareness
  • Abrasive wheels
  • Work at height
  • Emergency first aid
  • Project management
  • CDM awareness
  • Fire safety related
  • COSHH
  • Risk assessments
  • Display screen equipment awareness
  • Data protection – GDPR related
  • Behavioural safety
  • ISO 45001 / 14001 management systems
  • Auditor training
  • Manual handling
  • Food safety and hygiene
  • IOSH and NEBOSH

Safety, health and environmental advice and interim placement

Compliance
We understand how difficult it can be for businesses to keep up with the latest legislation, along with pending legislative changes. Our expert advice can help you stay on top of things. We will help you ensure you meet your legal requirements so you won’t risk steep penalties for non-compliance.

Safe systems of work
Safe Systems of Work (SSoW) are the detailed instructions you need to give your employees so they can work safely. We will ensure you have appropriate and sufficient risk assessments in place, and help you regularly review and update them. In this way, we will help you develop your SSoW so you can keep your workforce safe.

Inspections/audits
We will undertake pre-emptive and proactive inspections and audits on your behalf. This will equip you to pass HSE inspections and actively engage your workforce in spotting potential risks.

Policy, procedures and standards
We can help ensure that your policies, procedures and standards properly reflect your organisation’s culture, approach, and direction. Our expert advice will help you create and communicate your organisation’s official ways of working. We will also provide written standards, so you can properly measure performance and methodology.

Gap analysis
We can work with your organisation to analyse the gap between where you are now, and where you want to be. We will then provide the expert support and consultancy services you need to create your plan of action, with all the governance you need to get you there.

Project specific
Do you have a specific EHS project you need to implement? As experienced project managers, we will help you ensure your project’s successful and liaise directly with your stakeholders to clearly communicate any resulting changes to working practices your project demands.

Health check
A thorough systems health will highlight any gaps that might leave you open to prosecution. It will also provide you with a corrective or preventative action plan to help you eliminate or mitigate risk.

Interim placement
Finding exactly the right person for a key role can take ages. But it is important not to rush the process. We can supply you with any interim staff you might need, with appropriate skills to cover any role during the transition period.

We can provide a range of surveying services, from remote desktop surveys to full onsite surveys. We will discuss any areas of concern with you, before devising a tailored risk improvement programme for your specific situation.

All of our surveys undergo rigorous quality control checks to ensure they meet the highest possible standards. James Hallam Risk Management are compliant with ISO 27001.

Examples of surveys undertaken:

  • Casualty surveys, including:
    • Employer’s, public liability
    • Products liability
    • Post-loss
  • Property surveys, including:
    • Fire and special perils
    • Business interruption
    • Security
    • Marine cargo.
We are here to help.
Call us on 07532 007584 or email gary.woolam@jhrm.co.uk

Meet your team leaders

Gary Woolam

Head of Risk Management
T: 01417 736290
M: 07532 007584
Email Gary

Jim Nicholson

Risk Manager
T: 07811 456611
Email Jim

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Nigel Roberts

Executive Director – Head of London Markets

Nigel started his career with a traditional Marine Lloyd’s Broker in the late 1970s and with a break of 5 years around 2000 when he worked in the UK Commercial Insurance Retail markets, he has spent the rest of his career dedicated to marine insurance and reinsurance clients. The 15 years prior to joining Everard in March 2021 he held positions as Managing Director and Deputy CEO of two Lloyd’s brokers. Nigel has dealt with all classes of the transportation chain and specialises in Hull & Machinery, Protection & Indemnity and water’s edge industries including Ports, Terminals, Shipbuilding and repair yards.

T: 0207 977 7841
M: 07518 913404
nigel.roberts@everardinsurance.co.uk

Justyn Lemar

Marine Trades Division Manager

Justyn started in the Insurance Industry in 1998 as a general insurance broker before progressing into an account executive. Between 2003 and 2007 he broadened his insurance knowledge and took up an underwriting role. Justyn joined Everard insurance brokers in 2014 as an account executive and was appointed Marine Trades manager in 2017. He specialises in Marine Property & Plant, Marine Engineering, Marine Equipment, Marine Liabilities, Marinas & Harbours. Underwriting renewals and new business for our retail division including referrals. He manages and provides insurance solutions for wholesale brokers. Justyn has overall responsibility for the binding authority and is coverholder on behalf of a leading Marine Liability Lloyds syndicate. Justyn services marine trade clients in the UK, EU and Internationally.

T: 01732 224698
M: 07837 006962
justyn.lemar@everardinsurance.co.uk

Brendon Ladner

Marine Small Craft Division Manager

Brendon has worked in the insurance industry since 2013 when he started at a national brokers servicing private clients. Brendon then went onto work for a local broker in 2016 who specialised in marine insurance, predominantly small craft. Having lived near to the Fishing Port of Newlyn his whole life, Brendon grew up with a passion of the fishing industry and so the new role seemed a perfect fit due to the amount of fishing boats insured. This broker was acquired by James Hallam, the parent company of Everard in May 2021 and combining the knowledge of the two companies was fundamental in creating a new Small Craft Division which Brendon now heads up. His team will look for quotes on any vessel including private & pleasure, fishing, any other commercial, both in the UK and Internationally.

T: 01736 805004
brendon.ladner@everardinsurance.co.uk