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ELEMENT 2

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The purpose and importance of a health and safety policy


The role of the health and safety policy in decision making:
The health and safety policy of an organization is an important document that sets out the
organization's aims with regards to health and safety, who is responsible for achieving these
aims and how the aims are to be achieved.

What are the aims of Health and safety policy?


1. Legal compliance 2. Meeting the requirement of management system standards
3. Clear communication 4. Continuous improvement

What are the three key elements of health and safety policy?
A policy is presenting in three sections:
1. General statement of intent 2. Organization 3. Arrangements

General Statement of intent:


This states the organization philosophy in relation to management of health and safety.
Organization:
This section indicates the chain of commands for health and safety management identifies roles
Arrangements:
This section outlines the arrangements that exist for effective management of health &safety
Note: there is no one correct format or set of content for health and safety policy.

Key features and content ofa health and safety policy:


1. General statement of intent 2. Organization 3. Arrangement
General statement of intent
The statement of intent willusually recognize that manager and workers at all levels within the
organization have a part to play in implementing policy and also state that every person must
comply with the policy and that negligence of policy may be treated as disciplinary offence.
The general statement of intend should signed by the person in charge of overall organization
like CEO, MD. The statement should also be dated. This indicates when current statement was
prepared.

Objectives:
" Meeting legal obligations
Provision of a safe workplace, safe equipment and safe system of work, Information,
training and supervision
Risk assessment of all relevant workplace activities
Performance monitoring

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Provision of adequate resources such as expert health and safety advise


Effective communication and consultation with workers.

Targets:
The statement of intent may also set target for the organization to achieve. Possible targets
might be related to:
Accident rates
Active monitoring
Organization:
It outlines the chain of command for health and safety management and identifies the roles and
responsibilities of staff. It is standard practice for this section to include an organization chart
showing the lines of responsibility and accountability. This chart also show the lines of
communication and the feedback routes that exist within the organization

This section reflects the management hierarchy of organization and allocates


responsibilities
CEO or Managing Director
Is responsible and accountable for the entire organization
Management at AIl Level
Is responsible for ensuring all safety measure are in place and being carried out effectively.
All employees
Are responsible for acting safely at site
Competent Persons
Who have operational duties but are also considered competent to carryout one ore more health
and safety duties like first aiders and fire marshals etc.
Specialist health and safety practitioners:
Responsible for providing advice to support management and employees to achieving safety
General health and safety management Arrangements:
The section deal with general arrangements in policy that exist to manage health and safety
General health and safety management arrangements:
1. Carrying out risk assessments
2. ldentiftying and supplying health and safety information instructions and training.
3. Compliance monitoring including auditing
4. Accident and near miss reporting, recording and investigation
5. Consultation with workers on safety matters
6. Developing safe system of work and permit to work system
7. Emergency procedures and first aid provision.

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Reviewing Policy:
Circumstances which might require a
Policy should be review
regularly so review of policy:
it remains
circumstances
1. which could give rise to
reviews:
current and relevant.
However there are
2.
Changesto key
personnel e.g. new CEO or MD. some
3. A Changes to the
management
management take over structure of the organization
4. Changes to the type of work that the
5.
6. Recommended by safety audit. organization does.
Requested by a third party such as
insurance company or client

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