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IF YOU…
- are a small or medium sized business and your health and safety effort is becoming an effort
- need help with your SSiP accreditation
- now have 5 or more employees and need to develop written policies and procedures
- are simply too busy to maintain your health and safety responsibilities
- are worried about health and safety compliance
- require retained on non-retained health and safety advice
THEN…
- UK Health and Safety Solutions could be the solution you seek.
- We like to apply a “COMMON SENSE” approach to health and safety. It doesn’t need to be, nor should it be complicated.
- If you need help or support with your health and safety effort, then an informal, no obligation chat with one of our consultants could help.
- We understand that you and your business is unique, so our solutions reflect you and the needs of your business, providing common sense tools to make health and safety manageable.
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If you would like to know more about how we can help, use the contact page here or call us on 08000149139.
LINKS
The links below provide a snapshot of health and safety topics, some of which your business will need. Either in-house or external advice can help a business meet it’s legal responsibilities for health and safety. Take a look at the KEEP IT SIMPLE links for advice on these everyday topics and how we can help.
Health and Safety Policy
Protecting You with UK Health and Safety Solutions
Whether you have an existing policy that needs revision or simply need to create a new one, UKHSS can help you meet your legal requirement. Your business must have a health and safety policy, and if you have fewer than five employees, you don’t have to write anything down.
A simple way to plan your policy is to set it out in three sections:
The statement – sets out your commitment to managing health and safety effectively, and what you want to achieve. This is signed and dated and often displayed on the office wall
The responsibility section – sets out who is responsible for specific actions and could consider specific health and safety roles. It considers your management hierarchy and the responsibilities of directors, managers, supervisors and operatives
The arrangements section contains the the nuts and bolts and detail of your health and safety effort. It will set out in some detail the requirements for various health and safety topics and how you are going to achieve the aims set out in your statement.
It might outline your procedures for vehicle safety checks and the way driving licenses are periodically checked if your business uses vehicles. It might outline how hazardous substances are selected, stored and used if your business uses such substances.
In essence, the arrangements section should consider all the hazards or hazardous processes within your business and consider what should be done to maintain the health, safety and welfare of people at work or others affected by work procedures.
It is natural to think that health and safety policies are complicated and a huge effort. In fact, they can be for very large businesses. Most though are not, they are common sense and the effort needed to develop any aspect of a health and safety system should be commensurate with the size and nature of your business. The bigger the business, the bigger the effort will be. Hence, if you have fewer than five employees, you don’t have to write anything down.
UKHSS has a “simple is best” approach to health and safety policy development. If it’s kept simple, both the employer and it’s employees will benefit from an easy to read, easy to understand and easy to maintain policy that is used for the right reasons. We see so many complicated, over the top policies on a shelf in the office which have never been read or even updated, many having employee signatures saying that they have!
So what’s the point of this type of policy?
There is no point. Keep it simple and set out what you want to achieve and how you are going to achieve it. Additional pages DO NOT equal compliance.
