About This Sector
Marketing agencies, creative studios, PR firms, and advertising businesses share a common assumption: that health and safety does not really apply to a creative office environment. It does. The same legislation applies to a 20-person agency in Shoreditch as to a 2,000-employee financial institution in Canary Wharf. The difference is that agencies rarely have an internal compliance function to handle it. Arinite provides Chartered health and safety consultants who deliver proportionate, practical compliance for agency environments without the bureaucracy that creative businesses resist.
Sector-Specific Regulations
The Health and Safety at Work Act 1974 applies to every agency employer. The Management of Health and Safety at Work Regulations 1999 require risk assessments for all activities. The Health and Safety (Display Screen Equipment) Regulations 1992 require DSE assessments for all habitual screen users, including remote workers. The Regulatory Reform (Fire Safety) Order 2005 requires fire risk assessments. Agencies that conduct events, photo shoots, or video production have additional risk assessment requirements for temporary activities.
Common Compliance Failures We Find
These are the health and safety failures Arinite's consultants find most frequently in this sector:
No DSE assessments for staff or freelancers working remotely. Agencies rely heavily on freelancers and contractors whose workstations are never assessed.
No health and safety risk assessment at all. Many agencies have never had one.
No fire risk assessment for the office, particularly in converted or shared creative spaces.
No health and safety arrangements for events, shoots, or on-location work.
No competent person appointment. Health and safety is typically nobody's responsibility.
No documented health and safety policy.
Our Services for This Sector
Arinite's agency health and safety services include comprehensive risk assessments for office and creative studio environments, DSE assessments for office-based, remote, and freelance workers, fire risk assessments for agency premises including shared and serviced offices, event and production risk assessments for shoots, launches, and off-site activities, competent person appointment, health and safety policy creation, and health and safety software for simple, low-maintenance compliance management.
Book a Free Marketing Gap Analysis Call
Book a free gap analysis call with one of our Chartered health and safety consultants. In 30 minutes, we will assess your current marketing and agencies health and safety arrangements and identify the compliance gaps that matter most.
