Health, Safety and Risk - Basic Policy

Once you have been offered and appointed a post of employment, it is mandatory that you are issued a personal copy of the Company Staff Handbook which holds vital important aspects of that particular Company. The handbook holds the basic and amended important health, safety and risk policies among other very important statutes of the Company.

 A basic Health, Safety and Risk policy can be as follows-;

The Company recognises that it is responsible for ensuring, so as is reasonably practicable, the health, safety and welfare at work of its employees. The Company believes that the pro-active management of health and safety issues is an integral part of its obligations to its employees and to the wider community. This policy statement sets out in broad terms the legal responsibilities owed by the Company and by employees in relation to health, safety and risk issues. It will only be possible for the Company to comply with these legal obligations if both its employees and any self-employed third parties on the Company's premises understand that they are under a duty to take reasonable care for the health , safety and risk of themselves and any of their colleagues who may be affected by their acts or omissions and that they are required to co-operate with the Company to enable the Company to perform its obligations.*

 Health, Safety and Risk Management is one of mainly monitored mandates of the Company procedures, therefore introductory training day will be made compulsory for every new employee and depending on the reliability of the work-force updates will be conduct as and when they are deemed necessary by the given regulatory board. Depending on the relevance it has to the job and risks surrounding the work environment employees are strongly advised to attend these training days without question. Employers have the duty to ensure your health, safety and welfare at work, therefore the employer will probably have insurance to minimise the full impact in case a unlikely risk presents itself.

Employers have to make sure that they are doing everything that they possibly can given that they are responsible for  providing a safe place, access and system of work, adequate equipment, competent fellow employees and protection from unnecessary risk of injury or harm e.g. Criminal Convictions register for Social Workers, Nurses, Doctors because they work with very vulnerable individuals and groups in private communities therefore anyone with previous might be deemed unfit to do this kind of job. Despite fairly wide-ranging obligations there are still a large number of workers whose health is adversely affected by work. Introduction of technological innovations which were supposed to minimise these injuries and protect employees have also realised their own fair share of destruction and injuries at times even doubling the initial work accidents or ill-health.