Health and Safety Policy

Companies and organisations have a responsibility to ensure it follows relevant regulations and rules in order to comply with The Corporate Manslaughter and Corporate Homicide Act 2007. As a company director I am required by law to ensure my actions do not put people at risk during the enactment of their duties at work.

Equally, employees should also be aware of their responsibilities within working hours, as well as their rights together with what their employer should be doing with regard to hiring staff, for example, pay, contracts, time off and working hours.

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a) Business leaders, Managers, employers, learners and agents have legal duty to take care of health, wellbeing and safety of themselves and others who may be affected by what they do.

b) Co-operate with conform to legal requirements associated with this policy.

c) Ensure health, safety, wellbeing, and quality management principles and standards are maintained or improved upon during the execution of our daily duties. This shall include:

All workers are entitled to work in environments where risks to their health and safety are properly controlled. Under health and safety law, the primary responsibility for this is down to employers.

Workers must co-operate with employers and co-workers to help everyone meet their legal requirements.

As a worker, if you have specific queries or concerns relating to health and safety in the workplace, talk to your employer, manager/supervisor or safety representative.

What you need to know – Link to the Health and Safety Executive Website

1. Co-operate with the duty holder on health and safety matters,
2. Follow organisation policies, safe working procedures, and learning objectives in order to comply with legal and quality requirements,
3. Not interfere with anything provided to safeguard theirs or others health, wellbeing, and environmental safety;
4. Take reasonable care of their own health, safety, and wellbeing, and not compromise the safety of themselves or the safety of others,
5. Report all problems, issues or concerns and/or risks using the appropriate reporting system.

The Health and Safety Executive and I welcome people from all nationalities and ethnic backgrounds to its website. If you are looking for information, help or guidance in languages other than English click here for translated publications.

Managers don’t ignore the law. Follow the guidance provided by the HSE “managing for health and safety” Don’t put you, others or the organisation at risk. Manage “occupational risk” effectively.

In brief: You have the right:

1. To work in places where risks to health and safety are properly controlled.
2. To stop working and leave the area if you think you are in danger.
3. To inform your employer about health and safety issues or concerns.
4. To contact the HSE or your local authority if you still have health and safety concerns and not get into trouble
5. To join a trade union and be a safety representative.
6. To paid time off work for training if you are a safety representative.
7. To a rest break of at least 20 minutes if you work more than six hours at a stretch and to an annual period of paid leave.

In brief: You must:

1. Take care of your own health and safety and that of people who may be affected by what you do (or do not do),
2. Co-operate with others on health and safety, and not interfere with, or misuse, anything provided for your health, safety or welfare,
3. Know, understand and comply with safety signs

1. About risks to your health, safety and wellbeing from your current or proposed safe working practices.
2. About regulations and changes to working processes that may harm or affect your health, safety and wellbeing,
3. How to do your job safely and the standards that applies to your role.
4. What is in place to protect your health, safety and wellbeing?
5. How to get first-aid treatment.
6. What to do in an emergency.

Managers, employers, learners, and agents have the right to raise concerns. I will provide safe systems of work to raise concerns and provide appropriate training where required to enable people to use the reporting system effectively.

All education and vocational training programmes are designed to comply with the European general framework for lifelong learning. For further information please see our;

1. Vocational Solutions TM and
2. Learning Policy
3. Key Terms of the European Qualification Framework (EQF)

NOTE:   Under EU Legislation education and vocational training must be delivered in the mother tongue of the member state where intervention occurs.

Understanding why we need competence training is a key factor to the success of any personal or business development programme.

• Why do we need it?
• Who could be affected by what I do?
• How will it benefit me?
• How does it work?

These questions and many more will be answered through the training we will provide. All we ask is you to,

• Pay attention, when instruction is being given,
• Give input when required, and
• Behave in a manner which is not abusive or offensive. Failure to comply with this point may result in removal from the learning programme, disciplinary action being taken and/or exclusion from the workplace.
• Raise problems, issues and concerns through the “raising concerns” reporting system.

Our objective is to offer programmes of vocational learning with no exclusions to those who are willing to learn. However, people are required to prove they know, understand and can apply the skills the have gained in order to receive a certificate of professional competence.

For the purposes of quality management control wherever the term “Product” occurs, it can also mean “Service”.

My aim is to implement and apply Quality Management Principles into a process for lifelong learning in order to develop a workforce which has equal opportunity to progress, is rewarded through effort, confident, self motivated and has the knowledge, understanding and ability to win in business without putting others at risk.

This link provides examples of successful worker involvement in workplace development. Do your bit, get involved.

1. Employing People
2. Citizens Advice
3. Trade Union
4. Working, Jobs and Pensions
5. Live well (Your health, Your choices)

Nonconformities with this policy and learning requirements pose a significant risk to yourself or others who may be affected (directly or indirectly) by what you do or omit during the course of your daily deities which may result in,

1. Personal injury or death,
2. Injury or death of work colleagues or members of the public,
3. Injury or death of other road users,
4. Damage to own property,
5. Damage to others property,
6. Damage to the environment,
7. Committing an illegal act,
8. Penalties being imposed,
9. Loss of permit to work, or
10. Loss of licence entitlement.

NOTE:   Report non-conformities. They shall be dealt with in strict confidence. Click here and

State clearly the,

1. The nature of the nonconformity,
2. The location,
3. The time and date,
4. The name or names of persons involved,
5. Any recommendation to remove or reduce the risk of the nonconformity re-occurring.