Health and Safety Executive
Getting Started
- Getting Started covers various initiates which can aid a new business in commencing its policies and practices towards health and safety. A ten point checklist is provided on risk assessment, employer’s liability and the reporting and recording of incidences which happen in the workplace. A PDF document with templates for a health and safety policy and danger analysis studies is detailed so that small businesses do not have to necessarily formulate these from scratch.
Small Business
- Small Business is a section specifically for new entities and concentrates on basic processes which these organisations can implement without undue cost and administration. There is an introductory downloadable document as well as monitoring and performance review tools. These are designed to help small businesses maintain their efforts towards providing a safer working environment for employees and visitors to their premises.
Better Business
- Better Business focuses on the benefits to an organisation of planning, implementing and maintaining a good health and safety policy and environment. Topics covered include the positive aspects of less absenteeism and human resource costs together with potential negative repercussions such as a poor business reputation. The increased productivity which might result from having adequate working conditions and practices are detailed so as to encourage action by the organisation’s management.
Business Benefits
- Business Benefits provide specific facts and statistics on monetary saving gained by real life companies. Case studies of these businesses are supplied in downloadable PDF formats and links to further information are contained.
Enforcement
- Enforcement is an area which concentrates on the questions concerning not having an adequate health and safety procedure in place. The current legislation is available to view together with lists of businesses that have been penalised for having insufficient policies and practices.
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