Clear, compliant employment contracts and well-crafted employee handbooks are essential for any organisation that wants to manage people effectively, reduce risk, and build a positive workplace culture. These documents are more than paperwork – they define roles, rights and responsibilities, support onboarding, and help protect your business from legal disputes.
Employment contracts set out the formal terms of the working relationship between you and your employees. They clarify duties, pay, hours, entitlement to leave and other essential elements of employment, helping to avoid misunderstandings and disputes.
Our HR consultants draft employment contracts that are:
We also provide ongoing updates to ensure contracts evolve as legislation and your business change.
An employee handbook is a central reference guide that sets out your company’s policies, procedures and expectations. While not usually a legal requirement on its own, a well-structured handbook helps you communicate workplace rules, support compliance and embed culture across your organisation.
Our handbooks:
These documents work together with employment contracts to create a cohesive HR framework for your business.
Our approach goes beyond generic templates. We work closely with you to understand how your organisation operates and ensure that every document is:
We pride ourselves on delivering HR documentation that works in practice, not just in theory.
Employers in the UK must provide employees with a written statement of terms and conditions as part of the contract of employment; comprehensive contracts help meet this obligation and establish certainty from day one.
Having documented policies in a handbook also supports compliance with statutory obligations such as disciplinary and grievance procedures, health and safety practices, and equal opportunities commitments.
Together, these documents:
Need support with contracts or handbook development?
We work with you to produce tailored employment contracts and employee handbooks that reflect your organisation, meet legal requirements, and give your team clear, practical guidance.
Whether you’re updating your employee contracts and handbooks, or are building them from scratch, our professional HR consultants can help.
We offer a range of HR services to keep your operations running smoothly. Take the complexity and uncertainty out of human resources and explore our service range below or get in touch with our team for more information.
Don’t just take our word for it! We love hearing form our clients, if you would like to provide us with a new review to be featured on this page or want to voice your experience, we would love to hear from you!
Great, informative course. Tutor was keeping us involved and made sure we understand all material.
It definitely helped me see Health & Safety from different perspective and realise importance of this sector.
IOSH Managing Safely Training.
"I am in no doubt that AW Safety 's continued support has strengthened and developed our business and therefore I would highly recommend them to any company or individual."
Having considered our quick growth I was concerned about the level of support we were receiving from our Health and Safety company. With that in mind and the fact that I had heard of the excellent support that AW Safety provide to their clients, I made contact with Adam. At our initial meeting we discussed my plans, requirements and expressed my support for continuous improvement in health and safety. He suggested various short term changes including for example, regular site audits and a number of long term changes, including, a training matrix and training plan for Staff and Operatives. From the outset I was very impressed with the extent and flexibility of services provided and therefore we agreed terms to commence.
Site Audits have been found to be really positive and embraced by both our Management and Operatives.
As AW Safety work for a wide range of clients in various sectors and various size of businesses it is really positive that they adopt and share new and good practices, including passing them on to support and develop our business further. As they also offer in house training that has been found to be really beneficial.
I am in no doubt that AW Safety’s continued support has strengthened and developed our business and therefore I would highly recommend them to any company or individual.
I have had nothing but good reports back from the attendees.
They were particularly complimentary about your techniques and the way you put things across.
Certainly if I have any further needs you are on top of my list.
I think the whole process of getting the course done from start to finish was easy and well managed.
I am delighted with the support I have received from AW Safety. They have provided first class support for our UK wide engineering business that operates 24/7, 365 on life safety systems.
All of our queries from navigating complex construction protocols and support with bids and tenders to coordinating nationwide mandatory training was done to a high standard within our time critical environment. I will continue to recommend AW Safety to any business.
Health & Safety can be a minefield
We are here to help you see the wood from the trees.
Let's start a conversation
