S&D Training recognises and accepts it's responsibility as an employer for providing a safe and healthy workplace and working environment for all its EMPLOYEES.
For the purpose of this document employees include paid or voluntary Staff Positions, and Learners (which may also be known as participants, clients, or trainees).
S&D Training will take all reasonable steps to meet this responsibility, paying particular attention to maintaining:
- A safe place to work and learn, with safe entrances and exits
- A healthy working environment
- Sufficient information, instruction, training and supervision to enable all employees to avoid hazards and contribute positively to their own safety and health at work
- Systems of work, plant and equipment and that are safe
- Safe arrangements for the control of substances harmful to health
- Safe arrangements for manual handling in the workplace
- Adequate welfare facilities
- Systems to monitor the policy and working practices in all elements of the Organisation's activities.
Without detracting from the primary responsibility of Management for ensuring safe conditions of work, S&DT will provide competent technical advice on safety and health matters where this is necessary to assist Staff and Learners to meet their responsibilities.
No Health and Safety Policy is likely to be successful unless it actively involves everyone in the workplace. The Company has a Health & Safety Committee composed of Departmental Safety Officers (DSOs), the function of which is to monitor and review health and safety arrangements within the organisation and cascade information to employees of their departments. Facilities and training will be made available for this purpose.
S&D Training reminds its employees of their own duties under section 7 of the Health and Safety at Work Act, which places a responsibility on the individual to take care for their own safety and that of other workers, and to co-operate with the Company in its objective of maintaining a healthy and safe workplace.
A copy of this statement will be issued to all employees. It will be reviewed, added to or modified from time to time and may be supplemented in appropriate cases by further statements relating to the work of particular occupations or groups of workers. As a minimum there will be an annual review of the Company Policy and its implementation. The review will include the consideration of all reported health & safety incidents in the preceding year and the consideration of the recommendations and opinions of Company staff.