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Responsibilities for Health and Safety

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Chief Executive

As far as is reasonably practicable the chief executive will ensure adequate resources are available for health and safety and in particular by:

  1. Ensuring the provision of safe and healthy places of work and safe means of access to and egress from such places.
  2. Ensuring the provision of safe systems of work.
  3. Ensuring the provision of such instruction and training as will enable employees to carry out their duties efficiently and without risks to their safety or health.
  4. Ensuring consultation with, and the provision of information for, employees on all matters pertaining to their health and safety.
  5. Ensuring the provision of safe plant, tools and equipment.
  6. Ensuring the provision of all necessary safety devices and personal protective equipment.
  7. Ensuring the provision of adequate welfare facilities.

Supervisors and Managers

All persons appointed by the company to a supervisory or management position are responsible for ensuring that the company's health and safety policy and procedures are followed by all employees and in particular by:

  1. Ensuring the maintenance of safe places of work and safe access to and egress from places of work.
  2. Ensuring all staff adhere to the safe systems of work laid down by the company.
  3. Ensuring employees attend sessions of instruction and training as arranged by the company.
  4. Ensuring that employees are consulted with, and given necessary information on, all matters affecting their health and safety.
  5. Ensuring that any plant, tools and equipment is safe and suitable for the purpose for which it is to be used by following laid down examination and test procedures.
  6. Ensuring that safety devices, personal protective equipment and access equipment are suitable for their purposes by following company examination and test procedures.
  7. Carrying out any duties imposed on them by any of the health and safety procedures outlined in this document.

Employees

All employees will be expected to:
"Take reasonable care for the health and safety of themselves or anyone else who may be affected by their acts or omissions at work and as regards any duty or requirement imposed on their employer by or under any of the statutory provisions, to co-operate with him so far as is necessary to enable him to comply with that duty or requirement, and in particular by":

  1. Following the requirements of any safe system of work introduced by his employer.
  2. Use any safety device and or any item of personal protective equipment provided in the interests of safety and health.
  3. Follow any training or instruction arranged by his employer in the interests of safety and health.
  4. Report any incident that may lead or has led to injury, ill health or damage.
  5. Where requested assist in the investigation of incidents with the objective of introducing measures to prevent their recurrence.
  6. Carrying out any duties imposed on them by any of the health and safety procedures outlined in this document.