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Element 2
Legal compliance
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Clear communication
What are the three key elements of health and safety policy?
A policy is presenting in three sections:
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2. Organization
3. Arrangements
Organization:
This section indicates the chain of commands for health and safety management identifies roles
Arrangements:
This section outlines the arrangements that exist for effective management of health & safety
Note: there is no one correct format or set of content for health and safety policy.
2. Organization
3. Arrangement
Objectives:
Provision of a safe workplace, safe equipment and safe system of work, Information, training and supervision
Performance monitoring
Targets:
The statement of intent may also set target for the organization to achieve. Possible targets might be related to:
Accident rates
Active monitoring
Organization:
It outlines the chain of command for health and safety management and identifies the roles and responsibilities of
staff. It is standard practice for this section to include an organization chart showing the lines of responsibility and
accountability. This chart also show the lines of communication and the feedback routes that exist within the
organization
All employees
Are responsible for acting safely at site
Competent Persons
Who have operational duties but are also considered competent to carryout one ore more health and safety duties
like first aiders and fire marshals etc.
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Identifying and supplying health and safety information instructions and training.
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Reviewing Policy:
Circumstances which might require a review of policy:
Policy should be review regularly so it remains current and relevant. However there are some circumstances which
could give rise to reviews:
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