HEALTH AND SAFETY POLICIES

WHAT IS A HEALTH AND SAFETY POLICY?

A health and safety policy is a legal requirement for every organisation that has five or more employees. A health and safety policy is a document that sets out your organisations general approach to health and safety. It explains how your organisation will manage health and safety and states who is responsible. The policy must be readily available to all employees and they should be updated of any changes made to it.

WRITING YOUR POLICY

One of our professionals will look at your current organisations set up and review any current policies that you may have in place. Once we have done this we will develop a policy that is specific for your organisation. Your new policy will contain a statement of intent, responsibilities for health and safety and your health and safety arrangements.

HOW WILL MY POLICY BE IMPLEMENTED?

Once your organisations policy has been written we will then help you to implement it. Your organisations policy will be implemented using Plan, Do, Check, Act. We have already carried out the 'plan' part by highlighting each employees responsibility in the policy. The 'do' part will be ensuring that each employee with a responsibility is aware of their role, and to make sure they are competent to carry out their responsibilities. The 'check' part is done by constantly monitoring your policy to ensure that it is relevant and still effective to your organisations needs. As time goes on changes may need to be made to your policy this is called the 'act' part. This is a continuous cycle and will ensure your policy remains up to date.