HEALTH & SAFETY POLICY (COMPREHENSIVE)

WHEN TO USE THIS DOCUMENT

 This policy sets out the way in which an organisation manages and deals with health and safety. This policy is most suitable for organisations with 5 or more employees. If you have less than 5 employees, please see out other documents.

 All organisations should have a health and safety policy to meet your legal obligations. You also have a legal obligation to provide employees with certain information and you need to be clear about the roles and responsibilities relating to health and safety issues. If you employ 5 or more people this must be a written health and safety policy and you must have a record of your health and safety arrangements.

 All of our policies combine professional legal and personnel / HR knowledge with practical experience in business to provide an easy to use policy which meets with legal responsibilities and obligations.

 A written policy like this one helps employees to understand health and safety in the workplace and also explains the procedures to be followed. It contains basic health and safety rules. Although overall responsibility always remains with the employer this policy allows you to delegate tasks but also provide access for employees for information so that they can understand their own roles and responsibilities for health and safety within the organisation. If properly followed, a policy will also help ensure that the employer complies with all their legal duties and obligations whilst protecting employees.

 The policy contains careful explanations of the type of health and safety issues and procedures.

THIS DOCUMENT CONTAINS THE FOLLOWING:

 It covers the issues that such policies need to deal with including:

• Policy aims and training.
• Employer's and employee's responsibilities.
• Consultation.
• Risk assessments.
• First aid.
• Dealing with accidents.
• Reporting injuries, diseases and dangerous occurrence.
• Using equipment.
• Manual handling and storage.
• Electricity at work regulations.
• Disabled employees & visitors.
• Use of drugs, alcohol and offensive weapons.
• Fire and emergency procedure.
• Security.
• Suspicious objects and bombs.
• Stress.
• Working alone.

 If you need a health and safety policy with other essential policies please see please see out our staff handbooks and other documents.

HOW TO USE THIS DOCUMENT

 This is a MS Word document and is easy to use. The document uses blue text to provide extra guidance and notes and green text where you will customise your document to suit the circumstances in which it is used.
 

File Type: Word File