Health and Safety Statements, Policies and Arrangements
Health and Safety Statements, Policies and Arrangements & Procedures are important steps in establishing a health and safety management system. All businesses have a legal duty to manage health and safety risks effectively. Documentation is essential to ensure legal compliance, clarity and consistency, accountability and responsibility in health and safety management; providing a framework for risk assessment; promoting a positive safety culture and protecting employees and business interests.
What are the Legal Reasons for having a Health and Safety Statement and/or Policy?
The Health and Safety at Work Act 1974, the main law in the UK that regulates health and safety in the workplace, requires all businesses with 5 or more employees to have a written Health and Safety Policy - a Health and Safety Statement is the first part of that policy. Businesses with fewer than 5 employees are not legally required to have a written Health and Safety Policy but having a written statement is good practice and helps to demonstrate compliance.
A Health and Safety Statement is a brief declaration of a business's intent to maintain a safe and healthy workplace. A Health and Safety Policy is a more detailed document providing the framework for managing health and safety.
Health and Safety Arrangements & Procedures document the practical steps a business takes to ensure health and safety in the workplace describing how the business complies with health and safety law and controls risks at work. These form the third part of a Health and Safety Policy.
Together these documents create a comprehensive health and safety management system.
Also included within this selection of documents are health and safety management templates such as audit forms which will assist the business to carry out periodic reviews of health and safety controls and processes.
Why subscribe to Health & Safety for your Statements, Policies and Arrangements?
All templates are drafted by professionals, regularly reviewed and updated. The selection of templates below provides a range of documents that enables a business to choose a set of templates that has the best match for a health and management system to suit their business's activities and requirements.
Subscription not only enables downloading of the health and safety statements, policies, arrangements, procedures and audit forms but also every document within Health & Safety including other policies and procedures, all the health and safety risk assessments and many more templates.
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