PHS Group launches new safety compliance company

2 July 2010 – Workplace services provider, the PHS Group has launched a new company to offer a multi-disciplinary service that delivers complete legislative compliance.  The new company,

PHS Compliance, is formed from the merger of two market-leading specialists in the safety area; Epsilon Test Services (acquired April 2008) and CLM Compliance (acquired March 2010), who are merging under the new name.

PHS Compliance will offer services for electricity, gas, fire and lighting.  In each of these disciplines, the company will focus on legislative and ACOPs (Approved Codes of Practice) compliance and claims to offer the most efficient and effective process to achieve it.  This, the company says, would include the most appropriate mix of safety inspection, testing, remedial repair work, planned maintenance and emergency repairs required to meet individual customer needs.

Explaining the rationale for the new company, PHS Group chief executive, Peter Cohen, commented, “We always strive to proactively predict and deliver what the market will require and in the traditionally diverse and disparate safety arena, this means creating the powerful simplicity of one single name that can deliver on all levels.  From a client’s point of view this creates one point of contact and one route to achieving their legislative safety compliance, whatever the specific needs of their site or sites.  This makes great sense in terms of cost-efficiency and streamlines the process in a singularly tailored approach.”

The new PHS company pulls together the combined forces of Epsilon and CLM and provides a national network of more than 500 safety engineers.  Expertise within this workforce will include both specialists in specifics, such as electrical safety, and also multi-skilled engineers who are qualified to deliver services for more than one of the disciplines the company now covers, from electricity and gas to fire and lighting.

Leading PHS Compliance will be ex-Epsilon managing director Tim Beardsmore, who takes the role of commercial director, and ex-CLM managing director Paul Caddick, who becomes operations and technical director with the new company. 

Commenting on the newly formed partnership, Paul Caddick said, “Together we bring over 20 years of experience and market-leading technical expertise to this alliance with an enviable reputation for great customer service and innovation. We plan to create an unbeatable force for excellence in workplace compliance provision.”  Tim Beardsmore is similarly positive, “There is nothing out there to match the scope and specialism of PHS Compliance.  We are very excited about this launch and look forward to demonstrating how compliance is most intelligently dealt with by addressing all disciplines with one complete service.”