Health & Safety Policy

HEALTH AND SAFETY POLICY STATEMENT

Besafety Limited is committed to ensuring the health, safety and welfare of its employees, and visiting candidates so far as is reasonably practicable. We also fully accept our responsibility for other persons whose health and safety may be affected by our activities. We will take steps to ensure our statutory duties are met at all times.

Every employee and candidate will be given Health and Safety guidance when they join or visit the Company and each employee or candidate will be given refresher information, instruction and training as is necessary to enable the safe performance of their work activities and education whilst at Besafety Limited

Adequate training facilities and arrangements will be maintained to enable employees and candidates to raise issues of Health and Safety.

Competent people will be appointed to assist us in meeting our statutory duties including, where appropriate, specialists from outside the Company.

Everyone has a legal obligation to take reasonable care for his or her own health and safety and for the safety of others who may be affected by his or her acts or omissions.

The successful implementation of this policy requires total commitment and co-operation from all levels of management, employee and visiting candidates within Besafety Limited

Responsibility

Arrangements for First Aid, Emergency Rescue, Fire Safety and Accident Reporting are all contained within our Training Procedures. Our Commitment to Safety Manual contains the detailed organisation and arrangements in relation to all of our rules and you can refer to a copy of this at head office.

This policy will be regularly monitored to ensure that the objectives are achieved. It will be reviewed and, if necessary, revised in the light of legislative or organisational changes.

COMMITMENT SUMMARY

Besafety recognises and accepts its responsibility as an employer and Training provider for providing a safe and healthy working and training environment for all of its employees and candidates including visitors.

Besafety will so far as is reasonably practicable, continue to take steps to meet this responsibility, paying particular attention to the provision and Maintenance of: -

1. Equipment and systems of work and education that are safe;
2. Safe arrangements for the use, handling, storage and transport of equipment
3. Information, instruction, training and supervision to enable employees and candidates to avoid hazards and contribute positively to their own safety and health at work and whilst receiving training;
4. A safe place of work and education, and safe access to, and egress from it;
5. A healthy working and learning environment.
6. Adequate welfare facilities.

Besafety Limited will also ensure, so far as is reasonably practicable, that its work activities do not endanger the health and safety of others.

Besafety Limited will, so far as is reasonably practicable, provide competent technical advice on health and safety matters where this is necessary to assist employees and visiting candidates in their tasks and education.

This policy will be achieved by adopting a safety management strategy that will Include the provision of appropriate procedures to cater for all significant risks. The issue of Training Procedures will support this policy. These will be subject to review and revision by the company.

Besafety will undertake to incorporate and abide by the contents of its Health & Safety Policy.

The responsibility for achieving and adhering to acceptable standards rests not only with Besafety Limited but also with employees, sub-contractors and visiting candidates.

It is the duty of all employees and candidates not only to read this document carefully, but to take an active interest in achieving safety at work and whilst being trained. The

successful implementation of this policy is dependent upon the wholehearted co- operation of all levels of employee, management, visiting candidates and general

visitors.

This statement of policy will be reviewed and revised as appropriate, to take account of changes in circumstances or in legal requirements. This policy will be issued to all employees, Sub – Contractors, Candidates and general visitors who may from time to time be employed or visiting Besafety Limited

HEALTH AND SAFETY RESPONSIBILITIES

Susan Roffe will champion the Health and Safety of all employees, sub-contractors, candidates and visitors. She will delegate some of this work to supervisors but will ensure, by leadership, that they take an active interest in Health and Safety matters.

Susan Roffe is responsible for:

• Issuing the Company Health and Safety Policy Statement
• Ensuring that the Policy Statement and Company Policies are understood and implemented by all and has complete responsibility for employees, visiting candidates and general visitors.
• The appointment of one or more competent persons with the responsibility for providing Health and Safety assistance and ensuring that those appointed have the time available to fulfil their duties.
• Setting objectives for the reduction of risks to Health and Safety to employees, candidates and visitors.
• Establishing when required joint management / employee Health and Safety committee meetings
• Taking appropriate action to deal with any item within the minutes of the Health and Safety meetings
• Ensuring that there are effective means of involvement, communication and consultation with employees, sub contractors and candidates.
• The co-ordination and monitoring of the Health and Safety of all visiting candidates.
• Ensuring that all employees receive the relevant training;
• Establishing a review procedure, so that the progress and performance of employees can be assessed when required.
• Keeping the Company informed of, and alert to, Health and Safety Risk Management Issues.

The Health and Safety at work Act 1974:

This Act places a duty of care on employers and employees to ensure, so far as is Reasonably practicable, the health, safety and welfare at work of all employees. There is also a duty of care in relation to others who may be affected by employers’ work Activities, e.g. clients, visitors and contractors.

The Act provides the basis of a comprehensive system of law covering the health and Safety of people at work. It is an enabling Act and for this reason, its provisions are of necessity wide. It has been augmented by Regulations produced under the Act by the Secretary of State. This includes the following.

• Management of Health and Safety at Work Regulations 1999
• Manual Handling Operations Regulations 1992
• Personal Protective Equipment Regulations 1992
• Provision and Use of Work Equipment Regulations 1992
• Health and Safety (Display Screen Equipment) Regulations 1992
• Workplace (Health Safety and Welfare) Regulations 1992

Employees’ Duties Section 7 of the Health and Safety at Work Act 1974

All employees should be reminded of duties under sections 7 and 8 of the Health and Safety Act 1974, which are quoted below.

‘‘It shall be the duty of every employee while at work: -
(a) To take reasonable care for the Health and Safety of himself and of other persons who may be affected by his acts or omissions at work; and
(b) As regards any duty or requirement imposed on his employer or any other person by or under any of the relevant Statutory provisions, to co-operate with him so far as is necessary to enable that duty or requirement to be performed or complied with’’

Put simply Section 7 places a duty on all employees to take reasonable care, whilst at work, to ensure that they do not endanger themselves or anyone else who may be affected by their work and to co-operate with their employers or any other person who has a statutory duty or requirement imposed upon them, so far as is necessary to enable the duty or requirement to be performed.

Employees are also reminded that failure to observe these duties could render an employee liable to prosecution by the HSE.

Employees’ Duties Section 8 of the Health and Safety at Work Act 1974

‘‘No person shall intentionally or recklessly interfere with or misuse anything provided in the interests of health, safety or welfare in pursuance of any of the relevant statutory provisions’’.

Section 33 of the Health and Safety at Work Act 1974

(1) It is an offence for a person –
(a) To fail to discharge a duty to which he is subject by virtue of Section7.
(b) To contravene Section 8