Planning and Implementing an Occupational Health and Safety Policy – for SMEs
It is important that success or failure of the planned activity can be clearly seen. This involves identifying occupational health and safety requirements, setting clear performance criteria, defining what is to be done, who is responsible, when it is to be done and the desired outcome. While it is recognised that, in practice, organising, planning and implementing functions will overlap, nevertheless, the following key areas need to be addressed.
Risk assessments
Your company should carry out risk assessments including identification of all hazards.
Legal and other requirements
Your company needs to identify the legal requirements, in addition to the risk assessments, applicable to it and also any other requirements to which it subscribes applicable to occupational health and safety management.
Occupational health and safety management arrangements
Your company, is required to make arrangements to cover the following key areas:
Overall plans and objectives, including personnel and resources, for the Company to implement its policy.
Operational plans to implement arrangements to control the risks identified in risk assessments and to meet the requirements identified in legal requirements.
Planning for organisational activities covered in risk assessments.
Planning for measuring performance, audits and status reviews
Implementing corrective actions shown to be necessary.
HSEasy has been designed to help SMEs meet those requirements without the need to invest at the same level as much larger organisations.
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