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Ensuring the safety of the public and your staff on your premises
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Ensuring the safety of the public and your staff on your premises
There are many issues at stake in the health and social care sector, governed by major scientific and societal developments. Tackling health risks is at the top of your priorities, and has gained momentum in recent times.
The intensity of activity has an impact on your staff. Staff recruitment and retention are becoming increasingly complex. Motivating them and ensuring their well-being are top priorities. At the same time, the need to train staff is increasing.
Maintaining your buildings and renovating or even transforming your wards and departments also play a significant role in the life-cycle of your establishment, along with the development of health care real estate, for example.
Your establishment falls into one of the following categories:
• Public hospitals
• Private clinics
• Residential care facilities for the elderly (nursing homes, senior service residences, etc.)
• Practices (medical, dental, veterinary, physiotherapy, radiology, etc.)
• Specialist establishments
• Laboratories for medical analyses
• Pharmacies or dispensaries
• Home health care or nursing services
Apave can help you manage the health, human, technical, environmental and digital risks that you face.
Operating and maintaining the equipment and installations in your establishment
Ensuring the compliance of your equipment and installations by carrying out regulatory and non-regulatory inpsections:
• Electrical installations
• Fire safety systems
• Semi-automatic doors and gates
• Lifts
• Pressure equipment, particularly refrigerating equipment
• Machinery, stacker cranes, cobots
Manage your inspection data easily and securely with our digital Pilot exploitation application specially designed to help you manage your inspection data online.
Developing the skills of your staff
Face-to-face, blended learning or 100% digital: develop your staff’s skills with innovative formats based on active learning:
• Virtual classrooms
• Fire simulators
• Virtual reality
The Apave group adapts to the specific constraints of your activity, particularly with regard to training times, according to the availability of your trainees.
Constructing and maintaining your buildings
Enhance your property assets:
• Manage your building sites and monitor construction work with technical building controls
• Optimise the management and control of your property diagnostics with our digital solution, Check Immo
• Assess the risks associated with exposure to lead, asbestos and termites
• Measure your energy consumption as part of the Energy Performance Diagnostic (EPD)
Preventing malicious acts
• Assess your establishment’s vulnerability to security risks
• Control the risks associated with malicious acts by drawing up your Site Safety Plan
• Obtain ISO 27 001 certification dedicated to information security management systems
• Perform intrusion simulations on your IT systems
Controlling the risks associated with ionising environments
Ensure the safety of your staff and patients when using equipment emitting ionising radiation:
• Outsource mandatory regulatory inspections to a radiation protection competent body such as Apave
• Have these checks carried out directly in-house, by offering your staff training as Radiation Protection Officers (RPO).
Offer your patients and your teams a quality medical imaging service based on the 10 commitments of the LABELIX label.
Protecting the health of the general public and your staff in your establishment
• Monitor and measure the Indoor Air Quality on your premises in real time with permanently connected sensors
• Ensure the effective ventilation and sanitation of your premises
• Prevent the risk of Legionella contamination
• Control exposure to radon
• Assess the quality of residential care facilities for the elderly
• Establish a relationship of trust with users, by obtaining the Etablissement Bien Traitant or Crèche Bientraitance label
• Initiate a health and safety approach with the Single Risk Assessment Document (DUER) and the Pilot Santé Sécurité digital solution
• Improve your staff’s working conditions by implementing a quality of working life (QWL) approach:
- Reduce stress in the workplace by tackling the psycho-social risks
- Focus on tackling musculoskeletal disorders (MSD)
- Promote the right practices and postures by addressing ergonomics in the workplace
• Undertake regulatory monitoring with our digital solution Pilot Veille.
Why choose Apave to support you?
Sound understanding of the challenges facing your sector
• A dedicated team technical experts with a thorough understanding of the needs of health and social care establishments.
• A dense regional network enabling us to be as close as possible to you: 17,500 employees distributed around our 130 branches and 170 training centres.
• Timetables and service formats adapted to the constraints of your activity and your staff.
• Specialised trainers who understand the conditions and constraints involved in working in your sector.
High-level radiation protection expertise
• Complementary skills thanks to a strategic partnership with a major stakeholder in the field of medical physics to provide you with a complete range of radiation protection services, from regulatory inspections to training for your staff.
• Apave’s certification as a Radiation Protection Competente Body, to help you prevent the risks risks associated with exposure to ionising radiation.
Development of our activities to meet all your project needs
• Development of numerous online services, enabling you to oversee your projects remotely and in real time, in order to control all your risks
• A global approach towards addressing all the challenges you face through the Apave group’s 5 business activities: Inspection, Training, Tests & Measurements, Consulting & Technical Support, Certification & Labelling.
• Comprehensive support for both regulatory and non-regulatory services to manage all your risks.
• Ability to assist in all situations: during operations, and following incidents or accidents.
