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Effective health and safety performance comes from the top - directors have both collective and individual responsibility for health and safety and need to examine their own behaviours, both individually and collectively, and if necessary change what they do to become more effective leaders in health and safety.
Protecting the health and safety of employees or members of the public is an essential part of risk management and must be led by the board. Failure to include health and safety as a key business risk in board decisions can have catastrophic results. Health and safety law places duties on organisations and employers, and directors can be personally liable when these duties are breached.
Sypol's leadership programme will ensure that:
- You demonstrate commitment to health and safety
- There is appropriate board-level review of health and safety
- Your organisation, at all levels including the board, receives competent health and safety advice
- All staff – including the board – are sufficiently trained and competent in their health and safety responsibilities
- The workforce, particularly safety representatives, are consulted properly on health and safety matters, and that their concerns reaching the appropriate level including, as necessary, the board
- Systems are in place to ensure the organisation’s risks are assessed, and that sensible control measures are established and maintained
- Using appropriate audits and inspections, they are aware of what is happening on the ground and what the organisation and contractors actually do
- The board receives and uses performance data and reports on injuries and work-related ill health to inform decision making
- They set targets to improve health and safety and benchmark their performance against others in their sector and beyond
- Where changes in working arrangements have significant implications for health and safety, these are brought to the attention of the board
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