Health and Safety Policy

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[...] Employers must consult with safety representatives from trade unions while preparing and implementing their health and safety policies. They must comply with section 3 directing them to protect the young and vulnerable persons, along with the prohibition revealed in section 5 from realising harmful substances (ROSPA, 2012) Duties of Manufacturers Section 6 mandates all persons involved in designing, manufacturing, and supplying equipment and articles to facilitate safety in their application. It instructs them to undertake comprehensive testing to ensure their suppliers meet the safety standards. [...]

[...] Analysis of Health and Safety Policy Requirements of Effective Health and Safety Policy Inculcating a culture of safety at workplace requires communicating the commitment of the management beyond the quest for complying with the statutory provisions. This requires them to endorse the arrangements outlined in the health and safety policy. Similarly, the policy should draw definite directives comprising the responsibilities held by duty holders and contribute towards their convergence to stimulate workplace safety. Communicating the arrangements reflected in the written policy document facilitates easier coordination of all duties. Blending health surveillance with sufficient training, reviews and proper revisions ensure timely correction of anomalies emerging in the system. [...]

[...] Health and Safety: Construction, Design and Management Regulations . Retrieved March from http://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2007/320/pdfs/uksi_20070320_en.pdf Stranks, J. W. (2010). Health and Safety at Work: An Essential Guide for Managers ed.). London: Kogan Page. [...]

[...] Executive Duties The Act established the Health and Safety Executive responsible for carrying out appropriate arrangements to stimulate safety at working environment. Besides monitoring and investigating the overall implementation of health and safety policies, the executive conducts industrial researches, training and comprehensive disclosure of information. Section 13 confers the executive powers to conduct inquiries and obtain essential assistance from the police to investigate imminent danger. It allows them to seize articles posing danger at workplaces, initiate 5 cautionary probing and gain the consent of the secretary of the state while issuing enforcement actions (Mason p. [...]

[...] Recommendation and Conclusion The decline on incidents reported of ill health and accidents in construction sites, traces to the increased compliance with statutory provisions on health and safety. However, organizations must emphasize beyond the endorsements seeking compliance with the legal mandate and engage an informative platform that directs all duty holders to accomplish workplace safety. Practising industrial collaboration would initiate integrative solutions to health and safety challenges facing the industry. Finally, the management should embrace information modelling blend with safe-by-surveillance to detect and eliminate risks at their source Bibliography Davies, A. (2011). Workplace Law Handbook 2011 : Health and Safety, Premises and Environment Handbook. [...]