Warrings dry cleaners insurance, provides optimum cover for you and your customers
Warrings provide a specialist insurance service for dry cleaners in the UK. Established in 1999, Warrings have since developed a good technical understanding of dry cleaning businesses and the inherent risks involved in running operations using the cleaning chemicals and substances required by the industry.
This knowledge also allows us to give practical help, advice and pointers as to best practice to minimise risks and help reduce the chances of causing harm or putting yourself and others in danger.
Dry cleaning businesses can now arrange their liability insurance by completing the details of their business operation on our website. Once this information is received by us, we can provide you with a quotation for insurance to cover the aspects requested for your dry cleaning business.
We will always do our best to find you the most economical insurance policy but one you may consider will serve to adequately insure your dry cleaning business. Business owners can also help themselves a great deal in reducing premiums by taking a responsible approach to manage risks. Ultimately, this will reduce claims against the business and leads to cheaper insurance cover.
The process of risk assessment, whilst it might sound complicated, is actually very straightforward. Businesses are responsible for the health and safety of those that come into contact with them; this includes their employees, the general public and any suppliers that frequent their business premises. Risk Assessment is about taking time to consider all areas of potential danger and hazards within your business and making a decision as to whether adequate precautions are in place to prevent accidents, injury or harm. There are five very basic steps which anyone can follow to help reduce risks.
These are:
- Carefully identify any areas where there may be a risk of a hazard or danger to workers/the public/suppliers
- Identify who might be in danger/injured/harmed in some way, and how/by what
- Decide what can be done to avoid this happening, plan what precautions need to be considered and what action needs to be taken
- Record your findings, whatever they might be, and take action immediately to implement the precautions you decided upon
- Review your procedures regularly, update your findings and take appropriate actions to implement better precautions where necessary/as appropriate
The Health and Safety Executive has produced a helpful guide for Dry Cleaners, to assist in reducing risk and operate your business safely. This is available as a PDF by clicking here.
The Guild of Cleaners and Launderers also gives useful advice on handling and using solvents and cleaning agents and also provides helpful guidance on training and qualifications to assist Dry Cleaners to comply with the Pollution Prevention and Control Act 1999. They have some very information pages on their website which can be found at http://www.gcl.org.uk/solventemissions.htm.
The Citizens Advice Bureau (CAB) also produce a leaflet for the general public which is a useful reference for Dry Cleaners as this document details the public’s rights if they have a complaint or claim against a Dry Cleaner. Click here to view the CABs document.
The above information is given as a guide only to assist you in making informed judgements about reducing risks in your Dry Cleaning business.
Contact Warrings and we will be delighted to assist you with your Dry Cleaners insurance requirements. You can either submit your details using the online proposal form, submitting an enquiry form to ask us to phone you back or by telephoning us to speak to one of our professional account managers.