Textile and Clothing Industry

As an organisation with over 90 years experience in safety and health, RoSPA is ideally placed to assist you in tackling the issues that affect your industry. We work within the textiles and clothing industry alongside many organisations, striving to support corporate goals and strategies with health and safety confidence and compliance.

With this in mind, RoSPA has developed a range of specialist courses, audit and consultancy services designed to ensure you manage your health and safety effectively:

Manual Handling and Postural Awareness This course will help to develop an understanding of posture, so that principles of correct moving and handling can be applied in all situations to prevent long term manual handling injuries that cost the individual and the business dearly. Find out more about Manual Handling and Postural Awareness.

Manual Handling Risk Assesment This course is for managers, supervisors and those with responsibility for educating others in the moving and handling of items within the textile and clothing industry. This course trains people to carry out effective risk assessments, thus reducing injury rates. Each delegate learns on the course how to train other colleagues on return to the workplace. Find out more about Manual Handling Risk Assesment.

Workplace Transport Risk Assessment Tackling this HSE key issue must begin with a thorough assessment of the risks. This new course provides a solution by furnishing delegates with the knowledge needed to meet their legal duties to risk assess workplace transport. Find out more about Workplace Transport Risk Assessment

Health Hazards and Control This new course looks at key causes of ill health in the workplace including workstation design, workplace environment, noise, heat, stress and violence. Find out more about Health Hazards and Control

Quality Safety Audit This unique system has been developed by RoSPA to provide a complete health and safety management audit system. Find out more about the business benefits of this system. We also offer the QSA Course where we can train a member of staff to become an approved auditor for your company. The course covers the skills and practices of effective safety auditing including developing an understanding of HSG65. Delegates will also be trained in the use of ORBIT, RoSPA’s new audit software, which is designed to facilitate quick and efficient auditing and reporting upon return to the workplace. Find out more about Quality Safety Audit.

Consultancy Services We can provide bespoke consultancy services in all the topics that concern the textile and clothing industry. These include: Health and Safety Review Noise and Dust Surveys Gas, Dust and Vapour Monitoring Workplace Safety and Welfare View our full range of Consultancy Services.