6.8.2 Developing health and safety policies

• Health and Safety policies are crucial for protecting employees and ensuring legal compliance
• Stages in developing a health and safety policy

  1️⃣ Planning: Define scope and objectives

  2️⃣ Risk Assessment: Identify potential hazards

  3️⃣ Policy Creation: Draft comprehensive policy

  4️⃣ Implementation: Communicate and enforce policy

  5️⃣ Review and Update: Monitor effectiveness
• Health and safety policies should be regularly reviewed and updated to reflect workplace changes
• Match the stage of health and safety policy development with its description:

  Planning ↔️ Define scope and objectives

  Risk Assessment ↔️ Identify potential hazards

  Policy Creation ↔️ Draft comprehensive document

  Implementation ↔️ Communicate and enforce

  Review and Update ↔️ Monitor effectiveness
• Conducting training sessions is a key action during the implementation stage of health and safety policy development
• Order the stages of health and safety policy development.

  1️⃣ Planning

  2️⃣ Risk Assessment

  3️⃣ Policy Creation

  4️⃣ Implementation

  5️⃣ Review and Update
• These stages ensure a comprehensive approach to health and safety
• What are key stakeholders in health and safety policy?

  Groups with a vested interest
• Match the stakeholder with their role or interest in health and safety policy.

  Employees ↔️ Affected by the policy, provide feedback

  Management ↔️ Implement and enforce the policy

  Regulatory Bodies ↔️ Ensure legal compliance
• Why are employees considered key stakeholders in health and safety policy?

  They are directly affected
• Management is responsible for implementing and enforcing the policy
• The Health and Safety at Work Act 1974 places general duties on employers.
• Match the legal requirement or standard with its description.

  Health and Safety at Work Act 1974 ↔️ General duties on employers

  Management of Health and Safety at Work Regulations 1999 ↔️ Requires risk assessments and safety management systems
• What is the purpose of conducting regular risk assessments in health and safety policy development?

  To identify potential hazards
• Health and safety policies should be regularly reviewed and updated to reflect changes in the workplace.
• A construction company identifies falls from height as a hazard
• A construction company identifies falls from height as a hazard and evaluates the risk as high
• Conducting risk assessments is crucial for identifying potential hazards in the workplace.
• When evaluating risks, stakeholders are often consulted
• Objectives in policy formulation are broad statements describing what the policy aims to achieve.
• Goals are specific, measurable steps to reach policy objectives
• Match the policy aspect with its description:

  Objective ↔️ Broad statement of aim

  Goal ↔️ Specific, measurable action

  Scope ↔️ General

  Measurement ↔️ Qualitative
• An example of a policy objective is "Reduce workplace injuries
• Drafting a comprehensive health and safety policy requires defining its scope and objectives.
• In a health and safety policy, responsibilities must be clearly outlined
• Match the policy component with its description:

  Scope and Objectives ↔️ Defines coverage and aims

  Responsibilities ↔️ Roles and duties

  Procedures ↔️ Step-by-step actions

  Risk Control Measures ↔️ Mitigation strategies
• Developing a health and safety policy involves planning, risk assessment, policy creation, implementation, and review.
• Stages in developing a health and safety policy

  1️⃣ Planning

  2️⃣ Risk Assessment

  3️⃣ Policy Creation

  4️⃣ Implementation

  5️⃣ Review and Update
• In the planning stage of health and safety policy development, clear goals must be established
• Regularly reviewing and updating a health and safety policy reflects changes in the workplace.
• Key stakeholders in health and safety policy are individuals or groups with a vested interest
• Match the stakeholder with their role:

  Employees ↔️ Provide feedback on the policy

  Management ↔️ Implement and enforce the policy

  Regulatory Bodies ↔️ Ensure legal compliance
• The Health and Safety at Work Act 1974 places general duties on employers
• The Management of Health and Safety at Work Regulations 1999 requires risk assessments and safety management systems.
• Steps in conducting a risk assessment

  1️⃣ Identify Hazards

  2️⃣ Evaluate Risks

  3️⃣ Implement Control Measures
• The first step in conducting a risk assessment is identifying potential hazards
• Conducting risk assessments is crucial for identifying potential hazards
• Steps in conducting risk assessments

  1️⃣ Identify hazards

  2️⃣ Evaluate risks

  3️⃣ Implement control measures
• What is the first step in conducting risk assessments?

  Identify hazards
• Conducting workplace inspections is a key action in identifying hazards.