HEALTH AND SAFETY POLICY

 
 

Health and Safety General Policy Statement

BJB Ltd recognises that it has responsibilities for the health and safety of our workforce whilst at work and others who could be affected by our work activities. We will assess the hazards and risks faced by our workforce in the course of their work and take action to control those risks to an acceptable, tolerable level.

Our managers and supervisors are made aware of their responsibilities and required to take all reasonable precautions to ensure the safety, health and welfare of our workforce and anyone else likely to be affected by the operation of our business.

This business intends meeting its legal obligations by providing and maintaining a safe and healthy working environment so far as is reasonably practicable. This will be achieved by;

• providing leadership and adequate control of identified health and safety risks;

• consulting with our employees on matters affecting their health and safety;

• providing and maintaining safe plant and equipment;

• ensuring the safe handling and use of substances;

• providing information, instruction, training where necessary for our workforce, taking account of any who do not have English as a first language;

• ensuring that all workers are competent to do their work, and giving them appropriate training;

• preventing accidents and cases of work related ill health;

• actively managing and supervising health and safety at work;

• having access to competent advice;

• aiming for continuous improvement in our health and safety performance and management through regular (at least annual) review and revision of this policy; and

• the provision of the resource required to make this policy and our health and safety arrangements effective.

We also recognise;

• our duty to co-operate and work with other employers when we work at premises or sites under their control to ensure the continued health and safety of all those at work; and

• our duty to co-operate and work with other employers and their workers, when their workers come onto our premises or sites to do work for us, to ensure the health and safety of everyone at work.

To help achieve our objectives and ensure our employees recognise their duties under health and safety legislation whilst at work, we will also remind them of their duty to take reasonable care for themselves and for others who might be affected by their activities. These duties are explained on first employment at induction and also set out in an Employee Safety Handbook, given to each employee, which sets out their duties and includes our specific health and safety rules.

01 August 2023

F I Porumb
Managing Director

Relevant Legislation

In most cases Health and Safety legislation requires common sense, reasonably practicable precautions to avoid the risk of injury or ill-health at work. Our Health and Safety Management System does not quote specific legal references; giving instead the information and detail of what is required in practice to secure compliance. If the guidance and requirements of our Hea lth and Safety Management System are adopted compliance with the legal requirements will be achieved.

This page sets out, for the record, details of the main statutes and regulations affecting health and safety at work in force when this policy was prepared. Some of those listed will not apply to our operations, but we need to be aware of them should circumstances change.

The Online Reference Library contains a similar list which will a lways be up to date.

The document is titled ‘Health and Safety Legislation (UK).

Further detail and access to the specific wording of each of these legal requirements is available from the 24 Hour Advice Service on 0844 892 2785.

Note. Although the UK has left the EU, by virtue of the European Union (Withdrawal) Act 2018 and associated legislation, the European Regulations lis ted here remain in force until replaced by domestic legislation.

  • Building Regulations 2010 (as amended)

  • European Regulation (EC) No 2016/425/2016 on Personal Protective Equipment

  • European Regulation (EC) No 2008/1272 on classification, labelling and packaging of substances and mixtures

  • European Regulation (EC) No 2003/2003 concerning the export and import of dangerous chemicals, as amended

  • Chemicals (Health and Safety) and Genetically Modified Organisms (Contained Use) (Amendment etc.) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019

  • Classification, Labelling and Packaging of Chemicals (Amendments to Secondary Legislation) Regulations 2015

  • Confined Spaces Regulations 1997

  • Construction (Design and Management) Regulations 2015

  • Control of Artificial Optical Radiation at Work Regulations 2010

  • Control of Asbestos Regulations 2012

  • Control of Electromagnetic Fields at Work Regulations 2016

  • Control of Lead at Work Regulations 2002

  • Control of Major Accident Hazard Regulations 2015

  • Control of Noise at Work Regulations 2005

  • Control of Substances Hazardous to Health Regulations 2002 (as amended)

  • Control of Vibration at Work Regulations 2005

  • Corporate Manslaughter and Homicide Act 2007

  • Dangerous Substances and Explosive Atmospheres Regulations 2002

  • Electricity at Work Regulations 1989

  • Employers Liability (Compulsory Insurance) Regulations 1998 (as amended)

  • Employment of Women, Young Persons and Children Act 1920.

  • Equality Act 2010

  • Furniture and Furnishings (Fire) (Safety) Regulations 1988 (as amended)

  • Gas Appliances (Safety) Regulations 1995 (as amended)

  • Gas Safety (Installation and Use) Regulations 1998 (as amended)

  • Gas Safety (Management) Regulations 1996

  • Hazardous Waste Regulations 2005 (as amended)

  • Health and Safety (Amendment) (EU Exit) Regulations 2018

  • Health and Safety Offences Act 2008

  • Health and Safety at Work etc. Act 1974

  • Health and Safety (Consultation with Employees) Regulations 1996

  • Health and Safety (Display Screen Equipment) Regulations 1992

  • Health and Safety (First Aid) Regulations 1981 (as amended)

  • Health and Safety Information for Employees Regulations 1989 (as amended)

  • Health and Safety (Safety Signs and Signals) Regulations 1996 (as amended)

  • Health and Safety (Sharp Instruments in Healthcare) Regulations 2013.

  • Health and Safety (Training for Employment) Regulations 1990

  • Health and Safety at Work etc. Act 1974 (General Duties of Self-Employed

  • Persons) (Prescribed Undertakings) Regulations 2015

  • Ionising Radiations Regulations 2017

  • Lifting Operations and Lifting Equipment Regulations 1998

  • Lifts Regulations 2016

  • Management of Health and Safety at Work Regulations 1999 (as amended)

  • Manual Handling Operations Regulations 1992 (as amended)

  • Notification of Cooling Towers and Evaporative Condensers Regulations 1992

  • Personal Protective Equipment at Work Regulations 1992 (as amended)

  • Personal Protective Equipment Regulations 2002

  • Personal Protective Equipment at Work (Amendment) Regulations 2022

  • Regulation (EU) 2016/425 on Personal Protection Equipment

  • Pressure Systems Safety Regulations 2000

  • Provision and Use of Work Equipment Regulations 1998

  • Radiation (Emergency Preparedness and Public Information) Regulations 2001

  • The Registration, Evaluation, Authorisation and Restriction of Chemicals Regulations 2007 (REACH)

  • Regulatory Reform Fire Safety Order 2005

  • Reporting of Injuries, Diseases and Dangerous Occurrences Regulations 2013

  • Safety Representatives and Safety Committees Regulations 1977

  • Work at Height Regulations 2005 (as amended)

  • Workplace (Health, Safety and Welfare) Regulations 1992

  • Working Time Regulations 1998 (as amended)