Hendy celebrates with xCenta

Issued to Automotive Media

As new health and safety legislation comes into force, Hendy Group, one of the south’s largest automotive retailers, celebrates four years of using an online health and safety system to reduce risk to its customers and employees. Hendy, whose franchises cater for the Ford, Honda, Mazda, Kia, Iveco and LDV marques, amongst others, has been working with xCenta Solutions, the UK’s leading provider of online health and safety solutions to the automotive retail sector, to manage health and safety consistently across its dealerships.  

The family-run Hendy Group boasts 23 locations across the south, from West Sussex to Cornwall and employs more than 800 staff. Across its facilities, health and safety is paramount to the business as John Hendy, director of systems and resources, explains:

“The xCenta solution is vital in helping our managers to monitor health and safety as closely as possible. Our commitment to the process is total and the software solution has really helped us when it comes to health and safety inspections and audits. It’s also appreciated by the inspectors!

“We try and make improvements to our processes and endeavour to minimise risk – and the system plays a vital role here. Health and safety is paramount for us and for all our stakeholders – both employees and customers.”

He concluded: “I’ve got nothing but praise for the team at xCenta. The solution gives us complete control, is totally consistent across our locations and means that as and when we take on other sites, we are able to roll out our health and safety systems seamlessly.”

Hendy Group utilises the xCenta solution to prepare documents, audits and risk assessments as they are needed, while using the system to keep abreast of latest legislation and risk and ensure that health and safety-related actions are completed as they need to be.

Peter Purdom, managing director at xCenta Solutions, said: “We have a very special relationship with Hendy Group. The automotive retail environment is a fast moving sector, facing its own unique challenges. However, one of the key constants is the need for a total commitment to health and safety for dealerships. Our offer helps retailers to deliver from a health and safety perspective, enabling them to concentrate on their core of total customer service.”

To find out more about xCenta, visit www.xcenta.co.uk

Notes to editors:

• xCenta provides internet-based health and safety solutions to the retail automotive sector
• The web-hosted system provides step by step guide to health and safety in an automotive environment including prepared risk assessments, audits, statutory documents and action tracker to ensure actions are completed
• The xCenta health and safety management system is used at around 270 dealerships throughout the UK

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