If you employ 5 or more
people you must have a
written Health and Safety
Policy Document, and conduct
written risk assessments for
all your machinery and
hazardous processes |
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Risk assessments are an absolute
requirement in accordance
with the Management of Health
and Safety at Work Regulations
1999 and form the foundations
upon which your health and
safety system must be
founded. |
The risk assessments and
the health and safety
policies I write are not
generic documents. |
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The health and safety policy
document details what you do
and how you do it, whilst your
risk assessments detail how
you identify the hazards and
then control the risks in what
you do and how you do it |
They are written specific to
the needs of each individual
business in order to provide
a tailor made safety
management system. |
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Together the two document
files form the basis of your
safety management system
within your company. |
Generic documentation
which is common in the
health and safety industry,
will not ensure you are adequately
covered |
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Once in place, an accident
could only occur if work is not
being done in accordance with
the risk assessments and the
health and safety policy
document, or the accident was
not reasonably foreseeable |
