This statement recognises the obligations of
Charles Evans Group Ltd under the Health and Safety at Work Act. The
company will, in the conduct of its activities and so far as is reasonably
practicable:
- Protect the health and safety of its employees and others
who may be affected by its activities.
- Limit adverse effects on the
physical environment in which those activities are carried out.
Charles
Evans Group Ltd recognises that the talents and energies of its employees
are amongst its greatest assets and it has a responsibility
to provide for their welfare. So far as is reasonably practicable,
Charles
Evans Group Ltd will:
- Provide and maintain safe working environments
that do not constitute risks to health and welfare.
- Formulate standards
that comply with relevant statutory requirements in respect of
health, safety and the environment, as they affect
employees, customers, contractors and the public.
- Safeguard employees,
and others, from foreseeable hazards with regard to health, safety
or the environment, in current processes
and working
systems.
- Ensure that, when new substances, plant, machinery,
equipment, processes or premises are introduced, adequate guidance,
instruction and supervision
are provided for safe methods of work to be developed.
- Train
employees to be aware of their own responsibilities in respect
of health, safety and environmental matters, and
to
ensure they
participate in the prevention of accidents and industrial
disease.
- Without detracting from the contractor’s
own legal responsibility, Charles Evans Group Ltd will
ensure that contractors are informed of relevant
standards, have been trained in safety procedures,
and are monitored for compliance.
- Use health education and counselling
to promote good health and to avoid occupational and non-occupational
injuries
and diseases.
- Establish procedures for monitoring compliance
with safety standards and co-operate with authorities and technical
organisations, to ensure policies
are kept up to date.
- Establish safety committees to
maintain effective control of health and safety measures.
- Ensure these
objectives are fulfilled through auditing activities, either internally,
through competent
assessors, or by external
consultants.
Implementation
Particular implementation tasks include:
- Issuing a local safety statement
that sets out the detail of how this policy is to be applied
to all
employees, contractors, and
other visitors
to Charles
Evans Group Ltd locations.
- Allocation of sufficient
resources to operate and maintain safe and healthy places of work.
- Provision
of protective equipment and clothing, as required for particular
work areas and
activities, and ensuring
its proper
use.
- Ensuring adequate information is
clearly displayed on specific hazards applicable
to each site.
- Promotion of effective
participation by all employees in joint consultation
on
health
and safety matters.
- Provision of fire
protection, first aid and health monitoring facilities
according
to
the numbers
of employees and
the particular circumstances
at each site.
- Taking account of
advice and guidance issued by functional managers with
responsibility for health,
safety and
environmental issues
and establishing
the necessary training.
This statement
of general policy on health and safety at work
and of the
organisation
and arrangements
for carrying
out The
Policy
is made
under
Section 2(3) of the Health
and Safety at Work etc. Act. It is
to be brought
to the
notice
of all employees
of
Charles Evans
Group
Ltd and
is to be
included in the Employee Handbook.
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