Safety policy organisation

The employing organisation s safety policy, organisation and arrangements... 

Your health and safety policy statement sets out how you manage health and safety in your organisation. It is a unique document that shows who does what and when and how they do it. 

The health and safety policy statement is your starting point to managing health and safety in the workplace. By law, (Health and Safety at Work etc Act 1974 section 2(3)) if you employ five or more people you must have a written health and safety policy. This contains your statement of general policy on health and safety at work and the organisation and arrangements for putting that policy into practice. 

It is the duty of the company to prepare a Major Accident Prevention Policy (MAPP). This will set out the policies for ensuring the safe operation of the plant and the protection of employees and the environment. It will include details of the safety management organisation that will implement the policy. 

The ChemLeg program, in turn, focused on closer cooperation between policy makers, industry experts and national federations to facilitate the implementation of these standards. The main indicators of achievement were the enlargement of CEFIC with new full and associate CEFIC members representing nine of the ten Central and Eastern Europe states that subsequently joined the European Union the creation of an influential regional network of chemical industry and active involvement in European advocacy on the part of federations from Central and Eastern Europe (Doktor 2002). The political dynamics of trans-European industry mobilisation, organisation at the domestic and European level, and alliances with supranational and domestic policy elites and experts developed in full swing and in support of the horizontal diffusion of EU chemical safety policies and norms. 

The web is a vast resource for hazard information and advice on safe practices in the chemical laboratory. Many UK and US. university chemistry departments have posted their safety policies and guidance for laboratory workers on the web and added links to other health and safety websites. The websites of the following organisations are also useful sources of hazard information ... 

In preparing this book we have also been reliant on the aid of a substmitial number of persons in each country in which our investigations have been undertaken. Representatives of trade unions, labour inspectorates, health and safety policy makers, employers organisations, researchers and observers were not only willhig subjects for interview but often played a key role establishing fiirther contacts with important informants in each country. Although these people are too numerous to mention by name, the authors would like to acknowledge their debt to their active co-operation and help. Without it, this book would not have been possible. 

Safety policies conditions for effectiveness in an organisation main elements of such policies differences related to size of organisation, to management style and technology... 

This module is also intended to provide an understanding of the main features of other safety and health legislation, such as that concerned with the supply of products to consumers and pollution controls, as well as a background knowledge of other legislation which has to be taken into account when operating health and safety policies in any organisation. 

Legislation which may subsequently influence or constrain the application of health and safety policies in an organisation. 

The management of risk is a strategic approach to health and safety that organisations must adopt in order to control the hazards that employees, contractors, community residents and others are exposed to. It requires more than just a focus on the hazard itself. The control of hazards requires organisational and administrative processes in order to be effective. Those processes need to be in place to influence the behaviours of directors, managers, supervisors and employees so that harm does not occur. They should also be bound together by a policy and their effectiveness established by measurement, review and audit. A structure to accommodate these processes is necessary if the risks from hazards are to be controlled. Its success is demonstrated when the hazard has been eliminated. Elimination is the first step in the risk control hierarchy. 

The key message of this statement is that each director shorrld know and accept that part he plays in the company s risk management efforts so that mismatches between the director s individual attitudes, behaviours or decisions and the organisations health and safety policy are avoided. Disagreements at board level tmdermine the workers belief in the board s intentions and have an adverse effect on good health and safety practice. 

Policy 1.1 Does the safety policy reflect the current organisation 1.2 Does the policy specify responsibilities of those in the organisation 1.3 Is the policy pertinent to the hazaid burden 1.4 Are employees aware of the policy and the roles, responsibilities and arrangements to make it effective ... 

My safety policy states what 1 expect the line organisation to do and what 1 expect the HSE staff organisation to do 1 have attended the Basic Law training class My safety committee is comprised primarily of line people, with a minimum of HSE staff in attendance 1 make clear my expectation that an injured person must go to Medical even if they also wish to see their 1 visit work areas and make it a point to comment on hazards 1 have identified and safety improvements achieved... 

Traditional health and safety issues are increasingly being associated with other aspects of business such as environmental issues. Companies have combined Health, Safety and Environment Departments rather than having environmental concerns as add-on functions. Organisations in the UK with more than five employees are required by law to have a health and safety policy and many appoint a safety adviser, but there is no such requirement for having an environmental policy or an environmental adviser. 

The efficient implementation of the OPCW Health and Safety Policy will require an in-house safety and medical capability. This shall take the form of a Health and Safety Office within the Organisation, with the right, when necessary and appropriate, of direct access to the Director-General in matters pertaining to the health and safety of OPCW personnel. 

H5— There is a relationship of organisational commitment with the existence of safety policy in the organisation. 

Risk assessment records will provide a rich source of information from which an organisation can draw. In addition, an organisation s health and safety policy, its written procedures and safe systems of work will also provide a valuable source of Information, together with any posters and information sheets produced internally. 

The importance of setting policy in safety > The key features and appropriate content of an organisation s safety policy > Specific fire safety-related arrangements within a policy. 

The law establishes a minimum standard for the requirements of any health and safety policy. Section 2(3) of the HSWA requires that every employer prepare and revise a written statement of his general policy for the management of health and safety. The requirement extends to ensuring that employees are provided with information in relation not only to the policy statement but also the organisation and arrangements for managing and carrying out the policy. 

Regardless of whether each element of the arrangements section is included within the overall health and safety policy or whether it is an independent policy and/or set of procedures, a critical issue is that those persons nominated in the organisation section of the policy are aware of the arrangements for which they have responsibility. 

The fire safety policy of an organisation should be structured along the same lines as the general health and safety policy, i.e. it should have a statement of commitment, roles and responsibilities of persons charged with implementing the policy and detail arrangements. 

To ensure that the safety policy remains up to date and reflects the organisation s safety management systems and the risks associated with the organisation s activities, the policy should be subject to regular review and, where necessary, revision. To ensure that the policy... 

As with all persons who have safety responsibilities within any organisation the exact roles and responsibilities of the employers to achieve effective health and safety management will be detailed in the health and safety policy required by section 2(3) of the HSWA. 

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