Ensure Workplace Wellbeing with Expert Health & Safety Guidance

The Health and Safety at Work Act 1974 which is the primary piece of legislation covering occupational health and safety in Great Britain. This sets out the duties which employers have towards employees and each other, and the duties to members of the public. A management system is a set of policies and procedures that meet the requirements of health and safety legislation whilst being practical to implement across an organisation. Each management system should be bespoke to the organisational activities and based upon an assessment of risk. Some core elements of a health and safety management system are given below.

Every organisation is legally required to manage health and safety and any organisation with five or more employees is obliged by law to have a written health and safety policy. Far more than just being a legal requirement, reducing the risk posed by the activities undertaken by people under your care is critical to ensuring everyone gets home safely.
The effective way to ensure this happens is to develop a management system that engenders safe systems of work by employees, contractors and visitors to your places of work. By integrating health and safety practices into a management system, safe systems become normal operational practices that do not increase costs or become a burden.
Developing management systems that meet the requirements of international standards such as ISO45001, can enable suppliers to access opportunities that are only available to those who can demonstrate safe working practices.