10 Steps to Health and Safety - 9 Involve staff and others [caption id="attachment_3149" align="alignleft" width="212"] Involving staff ensures everyone is involved in improving H&S[/caption] Involving staff in health and safety matters is both a legal requirement and a good idea for any organisation. Involving staff increases the ‘buy-in’ to overall health and safety implementation.…
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10 Steps to Health and Safety – 10 Make sure you have the right people to help you
10 Steps to Health and Safety - 10 Make sure you have the right people to help you [caption id="attachment_3150" align="alignleft" width="212"] Get help and support[/caption] An organisation must have access to competent advice, it’s the law. If you do not currently have suitable knowledge then a suitable competent external advisors should be sort. Staff involved…
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10 Steps to Health and Safety – 1 Management support and commitment
10 Steps to Health and Safety - 1 Management support and commitment [caption id="attachment_3095" align="alignleft" width="150"] Management commitment to Health and Safety[/caption] Policy statement A health and safety policy statement is a basic commitment to health and safety and should be displayed at places of work. It should be a simple document and sets out…
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What’s your New Year’s safety resolution plan?
What’s your New Year’s safety resolution plan? It’s that time of year again. How are you going to resolve your H&S problems and make your workplace safer? and what will you do to ensure your resolution sticks? Studies show that most resolutions we make fail before the end of January. The reasons do vary and…
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