Health & Safety as vital as essential business insurance

South Coast Port Services Ltd provides Southampton Container Terminal and Tilbury Container Terminal with stevedores – machine drivers, lashers, riggers and shipwrights. The company also provides a complete mooring and unmooring service within the Port of Southampton for which they operate five launches and teams of riggers. All operations provide coverage 24 hours per day.

The Challenge

Managing Director at South Coast Port Services Steve Pearce says, “Because of the safety and critical nature of this work, health and safety is paramount. Having the correct level of protective insurance for our employees together with the necessary business cover is vitally important.”

“The every day workload of managing a business with more than 450 employees leaves little time for dealing with the complexities of the various corporate insurances that are needed today, which is why we need professional expertise from our insurance Broker.

The Solutions

Noyce conduct annual Business Insurance Reviews to ascertain be uptodate with the current business practices and run through our risk history to define a complete insurance protection package. With health and safety as one of the major risks with in the business we had to advise on how to reduce this risk as well as mitigate it. This length process is vital to get the right protection at the right price. As Steve put it “With premiums totaling over £500,000 per year it is crucial that we have complete trust in our broker’s ability. This is certainly the case with Noyce Insurance Solutions.”

The Result

“The working relationship between South Coast Port Services and Noyce Insurance Solutions is so good that it is almost like having our own insurance department. I think that this has developed because Tom Noyce and his team took enough time initially to fully understand every aspect of South Coast Port Services’ business as well as our insurance needs and, unlike some larger insurance companies, ensuring that regular contact is maintained throughout the year and not just at renewal rime.”

“Recommending particular people or companies is not always easy but I have absolutely no hesitation in recommending Noyce Insurance Solutions as I have done on numerous occasions,” added Mr Pearce.