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Health & Safety Policy

How we manage health and safety across our premises, activities and people.
H. R. Goodale (Northern) Ltd will:
  • Establish and implement a Health and Safety Management System to manage the risks associated with our premises and activities.

  • Regularly monitor our performance and revise our Health and Safety Management System as necessary to ensure we achieve our objective of continuous improvement.

  • Provide sufficient resources to meet the requirements of current Health and Safety legislation, and aim to achieve the standards of ‘Good Practice’ applicable to our activities.

  • Actively promote an open attitude to Health and Safety issues, encouraging staff to identify and report hazards so that we can all contribute to creating and maintaining a safe working environment.

  • Communicate and consult with our staff on all issues affecting their health and safety and, in doing so, bring this policy to their attention.

  • Provide adequate training for our staff to enable them to work safely and effectively, and to ensure they are competent and confident in the work they carry out.

  • Carry out and regularly review risk assessments to identify hazards and existing control measures, prioritising, planning and completing any corrective actions required to reduce risk to an acceptable level.

  • Maintain our premises and work equipment to a standard that ensures risks are effectively managed.

  • Ensure that responsibilities for Health and Safety are allocated, understood, monitored and fulfilled.

  • Retain access to competent advice and assistance through the support of Croner, ensuring we are aware of relevant changes in legislation and ‘Good Practice’.

  • Co-operate with other organisations, including on construction sites, to ensure that risks to employees and other people are understood on all sides, and that we comply with the requirements of relevant legislation.

Everyone's responsibility

It is the duty of all of us when at work:
  • To take reasonable care of our own safety.

  • To take reasonable care of the safety of others who may be affected by what we do or fail to do.

  • To co-operate so that we can all comply with our legal duties.

  • To ensure we do not interfere with or misuse anything provided in the interests of health and safety.

Position
Director
Approved on behalf of
H. R. Goodale (Northern) Ltd
Date
31 January 2024

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