Wright Safety Solutions
Wright Safety Solutions
established 2006
providing Health and Safety for Coventry and Warwickshire medium/small businesses
Management of Health and Safety
Who can manage my safety matters?
If you are a company director then safety on your premises is YOUR responsibility. You can manage safety matters yourself, or delegate duties to your team of supervisory staff, or to a dedicated safety officer. In any case safety remains your responsibility.
You can employ a safety consultant to help create a safety system at work but to manage your safety is down to you and your employees. And the first thing you do is write out a company safety policy (see that section).
The key issue then is how to organise all the safety duties within your team. The Director or owner of a small/medium business has ultimate responsibility for ensuring that the Company fulfils its legal responsibilities, but he should delegate to his team and make them accountable for the implementation of the company's safety policy. If the employer has managers then they will have their own work/departmental activities and need to ensure that at all times necessary consideration is given to health and safety.
Look at this example, in a small/medium sized company without a dedicated Safety Officer :
Having agreed on a company policy and accepted the requirements of the Management of Health and Safety at Work Reglations (1999) this team can easily be organised so that there is sharing of responsibilities and maintaining a clear chain of command covering ALL aspects of health and safety at work.
For example,
These are just examples of how safety can be organised. Obviously the detail will depend on each person's training and capabilities, but when recruiting new people an employer must always consider the safety respionsibilities that new staff can accept.
As safety discussions and training progress you might then recognise good candidates for a safety committee and for safety reps. Such a committee gives your commitment more visibility and can create a more systematic approach to problem solving and target-setting.
Contact Wright Safety Solutions for a more complete consultation with regard to Safety Management. Organising a good safety system even in a small/medium company can take time and a lot of dicussion - let Wright Safety Solutions do this for you. Remember, you need to delegate responsibilities and count on your team for full support in safety matters.
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this page first published 12 January 2007
last updated 14 December 2019
Health and Safety for Coventry and Warwickshire medium/small businesses
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