Unit 101
Unit 101 – health and safety in a business environment
1.1 state health and safety responsibilities of employers and 1.2 state their own responsibilities for health and safety in the business environment
Everybody is entitled to a work environment that are safe for them to do so, and that customers, visitors and contractors can be protected from any risk to health and safety whilst they are on the premises. Your employer’s basic responsibility is to provide safe and healthy conditions and processes for you to work in, while your responsibility is to act in a safe and responsible way to protect yourself, your colleagues, customers and visitors from any harm.
An organisation must ensure that:
Appropriate importance is given when reporting information designed to prevent breaches of health and safety, like progress training and maintenance programmes. audits of how effective management structures and risk controls for health and safety should be carried out as often as necessary
The introduction of new procedures, work processes or products, or any major health and safety failure should be reported as soon as possible
There are procedures to put new and changed legal requirements into practice.
Employees must ensure that they:
Take care of their own health and safety and that of others
Co-operate with their employer and co-workers
Do not interfere with safety equipment
Health and safety performance should be reviewed at least once a year. The review process should:
Examine whether the health and safety policy reflects the organisation’s current policies, plans and targets
Examine whether risk management and other health and safety systems have been effectively reporting
Report health and safety shortcomings, and the effect of all relevant management decisions
Decide actions to address any weaknesses and a system to monitor their implementation
Consider immediate reviews in the light of major shortcomings or events
According to the Health and Safety Executive,
1.1 state health and safety responsibilities of employers and 1.2 state their own responsibilities for health and safety in the business environment
Everybody is entitled to a work environment that are safe for them to do so, and that customers, visitors and contractors can be protected from any risk to health and safety whilst they are on the premises. Your employer’s basic responsibility is to provide safe and healthy conditions and processes for you to work in, while your responsibility is to act in a safe and responsible way to protect yourself, your colleagues, customers and visitors from any harm.
An organisation must ensure that:
Appropriate importance is given when reporting information designed to prevent breaches of health and safety, like progress training and maintenance programmes. audits of how effective management structures and risk controls for health and safety should be carried out as often as necessary
The introduction of new procedures, work processes or products, or any major health and safety failure should be reported as soon as possible
There are procedures to put new and changed legal requirements into practice.
Employees must ensure that they:
Take care of their own health and safety and that of others
Co-operate with their employer and co-workers
Do not interfere with safety equipment
Health and safety performance should be reviewed at least once a year. The review process should:
Examine whether the health and safety policy reflects the organisation’s current policies, plans and targets
Examine whether risk management and other health and safety systems have been effectively reporting
Report health and safety shortcomings, and the effect of all relevant management decisions
Decide actions to address any weaknesses and a system to monitor their implementation
Consider immediate reviews in the light of major shortcomings or events
According to the Health and Safety Executive,