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HSE Policy /
Procedures
A
health and safety policy sets out your general approach and
objectives (your vision) and the arrangements you have put
in place for managing health and safety in your business. It
is a unique document that says who does what, when and how.
If you have five or more employees, you must write your
policy down. A written policy statement shows your
employees, and anyone else, your commitment to health and
safety. It should describe how you will implement and
monitor your health and safety controls. You should review
it regularly. SES personnel can help you write your health
and safety policy and procedures after listening to the way
you intend to manage health and safety within your business.
Risk and COSHH
Assessments
It is required
by law for you to have adequately assessed the health and
safety risks in all your business.
In a
risk assessment everything in your work which could cause
harm to people is identified. It shows if you have taken
enough precautions, or if you should do more to prevent
harm. SES
personnel will assess the risks in your business using
tried-and-tested industry best-practice risk assessment
techniques and risk matrices.
Using chemicals
or other hazardous substances at work can put people’s
health at risk, so the law requires employers to control
exposure to hazardous substances to prevent ill health. They
have to protect both employees and others who may be exposed
by complying with the Control of Substances Hazardous to
Health Regulations 2002 (COSHH). COSHH is a useful tool of
good management which sets eight basic measures that
employers, and sometimes employees, must take. If you as an
employer fail to adequately control hazardous substances,
your employees or others may become ill. Effects from
hazardous substances range from mild eye irritation to
chronic lung disease or, on occasions, death. SES personnel
will use these measures and a simple step-by-step approach
which will help you to assess risks, implement any measures
needed to control exposure and establish good working
practices.
Method
Statements
Method
statements are key safety documents that takes the
information about significant risks from your risk
assessment, and combines them with the job specification, to
produce a practical and safe working method for your
employees to follow on site. SES personnel can work with
your employees to produce concise, easy to read and job/site
specific method statements.
Fire-fighting
Training
The
law says you must train your employees and contractors to
work safely, and clearly instruct them in their duties.
Everyone who works for you, including self-employed people,
needs to know how to work safely and without risks to
health.
SES employ ex-local authority fire service personnel who can
give fire-fighting training involving fire extinguishers,
hose reels and fire blankets for fires in the office,
factory, and at home, and also involving vehicles.
Means-of-escape training from the same types of premises is
also available.
Accident
Investigation
Whether an
incident looks very straightforward or extremely complicated
it is important to be able to identify the root and
contributory causes to be able to put in place an action
plan to reduce the chances of that accident happening again
to as low as reasonably practicable (ALARP). SES can either
investigate a single accident for you or implement an
accident investigation training session to ensure your
employees are competent to carry out an accident
investigation themselves.
SES
personnel can also help you to understand how you need to
report incidents to conform to The Reporting of Injuries,
Diseases and Dangerous Occurrences Regulations 1995
(otherwise known as RIDDOR).
Health / Safety
/ Environmental (H.S.E.) Audits
These entail one
of our personnel visiting your premises and looking at the
way you run your business so we can assess any risks which
you may be exposed to. We will then be in the best position
to advise you of the most cost-effective way to manage those
risks.
Permit-to-Work
Training.
Permit-to-Work
systems are invaluable in controlling multiple hazardous /
non-hazardous activities within the same work area to ensure
safe simultaneous operation. SES can produce a tailor-made
Permit-to-Work system to suit your individual business and
can train your employees how to use it correctly.
Toolbox Talks
Toolbox talks
are short (5-10 minutes) briefings which are usually given
to employees at the start of their shift before they start
work. They are usually based on one topic and are designed
to have the employees focus on the hazards which they could
be facing in their work that day. SES personnel can produce
tailor-made toolbox talks for each of your work activities
to include all of their hazards, and can also deliver the
content to the workers if required.
Behavioural
Safety Audit training
Behavioural
Safety Audits (B.S.A.’s) are an important tools to help
supervisors correct unsafe behaviour and also commend safe
behaviour in the workplace. B.S.A.’s adopt a
non-confrontational approach which involves the supervisor
chatting to the worker in a friendly way whilst at the same
time being able to deliver his safety message. SES personnel
can deliver both theoretical and practical B.S.A. training
at your workplace.
Environmental
Impact Assessments
An
environmental impact assessment (E.I.A.) is an assessment of
the possible impact—positive or negative—that a proposed
project may have on the environment; considering natural,
social and economic aspects. The purpose of the assessment
is to ensure that decision makers consider the ensuing
environmental impacts to decide whether to proceed with the
project. SES personnel can help you draw up an Environmental
Impact Assessment for either a brownfield or greenfield
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