Section No Section Page No 1 General Statement of Health and Safety Policy 3 2 Organisation and Responsibilities 4 3 General Arrangements/Significant Findings of Generic Risk Assessments: 7 3.1 Risk Assessment Procedures 6 3.2 Workplace Issues 9 3.3 Work Equipment 10 3.4 Working at Heights 10 3.5 Electrical Equipment 11 3.6 Substances Hazardous to Health 11 3.7 Asbestos Containing Materials (ACM’s) 12 3.8 Fire and Terrorist Threat Procedures 12 3.9 Manual Handling Operations 13 3.10 Display Screen Equipment 14 3.11 Smoking 15 3.12 Road Transport 13 3.13 Contractors 15 3.14 First Aid Arrangements 16 3.15 New and Expectant Mothers at Work 16 3.16 Young Persons 17 3.17 Reporting and Investigating Injuries/Ill-Health 17 3.18 Health and Safety Law and Employer’s Liability Insurance Notices 19 3.19 Safety Representatives and Employee Consultation 19 3.20 Working Alone 20 3.21 Working Time 20 3.22 Working on Client’s Premises 21 3.23 Working at Home 21 3.24 Noise 22 3.25 Health and Safety Training 22 3.26 Personal Protective Equipment 23 3.27 Vibration Risks 23 Statement of Health and Safety Policy The Director of VANGUARD (BOURNEMOUTH) LTD is committed to ensuring a safe and healthy environment for customers, contractors and visitors.
Significant Findings of Risk Assessments Location or Unit Area or activity Carried out by Date Hazard (Concentrate on obvious and significant hazards) Who might be harmed Existing controls (Refer to policies,& procedures detailed elsewhere if appropriate) Is Risk controlled? Yes/No If ‘No’ what action is required to control the risk
follow the emergency procedures in the of discovering a fire or suspicious object, hearing the fire alarm or receiving a terrorist threat. 3.9 Manual Handling Operations (A guidance booklet ‘Getting to grips with manual handling’ is published on the Health and Safety Executive’s website at ) Managers will ensure that: manual handling operations involving significant lifting, pushing or pulling are avoided where possible, the above is not possible, the risks are assessed and measures are implemented to reduce the risk of injury e.g. by re-organising work systems, providing equipment such as trolleys/barrows, splitting loads into smaller units, specifying team lifts, providing employees with training in the techniques that minimise the risk of injury etc., the significant findings of manual handling assessments are recorded locally on the VANGUARD (BOURNEMOUTH) LTD form in 3.1 of this policy, Employees are not required to carry out manual handling operations beyond their individual capacities. Employees will ensure that they: Do not attempt to lift or move anything they consider to be too or awkward for them, seek help where necessary, use the correct techniques to minimise the risk of injury i.e. keeping the back straight and lifting with the leg muscles, avoid bending from the waist and lifting, this puts strain on the back muscles and spine and may lead to injury, Report to their manager any task which is beyond their capability or where the correct manual handling techniques cannot be used. 3.10 Display Screen Equipment (DSE) (A guidance booklet ‘Working with VDUs’ is published on the Health and Safety Executive’s website at ) Managers will ensure that: employees who use DSE habitually for a significant part of work are designated officially as DSE ‘users', are provided with the above ‘Working with VDU’s’ booklet to alert them to the risks to their health and how to minimise them, workstations operated by ‘users’ are assessed using the VANGUARD (BOURNEMOUTH) LTD DSE Checklist to ensure they meet the minimum requirements and the risks are reduced to lowest level reasonably practicable,