20 | UK Transport Awards 2022 Based in Llanelli, RHN Consultancy provides reliable transport consultancy services, including tachograph analysis, to clients across Wales and the UK. Its team has extensive knowledge and experience in all aspects of compliance and can support client companies in a range of services including training, health and safety, and more. Rick Nugent founded RHN Consultancy on a basis of 36 years’ experience within the transport industry. He started as a mechanic, working through the industry as an HGV driver, and took part in European work, driving articulated, refrigerated and general haulage vehicles across the UK and Ireland. This included a period as an owner driver within the aggregate industry. Rick has been involved in operator licensing compliance since 2001 and is qualified and experienced in all aspects of operator licensing, driver training, health and safety, and transport management. He has supported operators at numerous public inquiries throughout the UK and has been registered as an expert witness in his field. RHN Consultancy is now a family-run business with a focus on providing a professional service to all its valued clients. The UK road transport industry, both goods and passenger, has a requirement for professional support in several key areas – RHN Consultancy’s team of experts offers a range of services to fulfil that requirement wherever and whenever necessary, including transport analysis, compliance audits, fright operator recognition scheme (FORS), external transport management, public inquiries, health and safety, and training. RHN Consultancy has been an agent for and a user of the TruTac “TruControl” analysis software for over 14 years, which enables its team of analysts to provide analysis solutions to meet clients’ needs through professional reports. They can also offer the supply, installation and sale of all peripherals associated with an analysis solution, and can accommodate digital, analogue, and mixed fleet environments for analysis. Transport Consultancy of the Year - UK & Ireland Alongside this, the consultancy can offer a board range of audit undertakings sufficient to meet the client’s needs as an operator within freight or passenger environments. Its audit reports have been utilised at public inquiries and as compliance with regular auditing requirements from an operator specific undertaking. Having an external audit review of your compliance procedures offers an insight into your existing position and can allow you the opportunity to direct your attention towards specific areas as required. An audit by RHN Consultancy will encompass all areas as necessary, including driver’s hours and tachograph compliance; vehicle maintenance procedures and records; working time directive compliance; operator licensing; driver management, licensing and training; and health and safety. Following any audit, the consultancy will provide a structured and detailed report, assisting the operator in developing and implementing remedial measures to rectify any identified shortcomings or areas of potential enforcement exposure. RHN Consultancy has over seven years’ experience of working within the Fright Operator Recognition Scheme (FORS) framework and requirements, having successfully assisted operators in reaching bronze and silver accreditation levels in annual re-audits and implementation of FORS requirements. It has completed the FORS Practitioner courses and can assist in the provision of the required driver training modules within the FORS requirements. If you are considering entry into this standard, or it is a requirement to gain contracts or remain within a contract, then RHN Consultancy can assist in the necessary process to do this. Additionally, RHN Consultancy’s team of NEBOSH and IOSH qualified health and safety professionals with many years’ experience are on hand to support clients. The client will be provided with the systems and records to allow them to fulfil their legal requirements relating to all aspects of health and safety in the workplace. All risk assessments will be undertaken, along with safe systems of work and method statements, and preparation of documentation and records. Its team will ensure that all risks are minimised to a controlled level and will deal with preparing their health and safety compliance in advance. The consultancy can also support businesses by providing training in the form of driver training, transport manager refresher courses, forklift and HIAB training, TM CPC training, and inhouse direct training courses. Drivers must undertake a minimum of 35 hours’ training every five years for legal continuation of their driver CPC cards, and transport managers (and responsible persons for restricted operators) are expected by the traffic commissioner to undertake refresher training at a minimum of every five years. Ultimately, it’s easy to see how RHN Consultancy has achieved such success within the UK Transport Awards 2022, with its full range of services being delivered by such a reliable and competent team and ensuring the safety and compliance of transport companies. So, if you are looking for professional compliance support within the HGV and PSV transport industry, get in touch with RHN Consultancy today. Company: RHN Consultancy Email: [email protected] Website: www.rhnconsultancy.co.uk Jan22704
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