we ensure compliance with all current health and safety requirements
We understand that the most important aspect of our business is the health, safety and welfare of our staff and customers.
Through the implementation of our health and safety policy and procedures and safe systems of work, we ensure compliance with all current health and safety legislative requirements, national guidance and approved codes of practice. We also demonstrate our continual commitment to achieving ‘zero’ harm to our staff, through applying the high standards set out within our health and safety management system.
We are committed to ensuring full implementation and adoption of health and safety measures across our business. This commitment is demonstrated through the provision of sufficient financial resources, management and employee time, training, and health and safety advisory support provided by The Way Forward.
All our staff have contractual responsibilities for health and safety, and their success in fulfilling those responsibilities are measured during periodic audits undertaken by our appointed health and safety advisor to ensure our high standards are maintained.
We understand and appreciate the importance of a highly skilled workforce who meet the health and safety requirements of our business. Through our ongoing monitoring program, we continuously review our training requirements with our health and safety advisor and needs are discussed in accordance with legal requirements and best practice. We also ensure that task specific training (such as for working at height) is provided for our staff by industry certified training providers.
We fully recognise our duties when we undertake work under ‘The Construction (Design and Management) Regulations’ 2015. We appreciate that our risk controls fundamentally affect the health and safety of construction work. It is therefore vital that our decisions with regards to risk are addressed from the very start of our projects. As contractors we appreciate and ensure the need to coordinate with others to improve the way risks are managed and controlled. We ensure that we provide information to the principal contractor as required under the regulations, and in addition, we ensure that we liaise accordingly with the principal contractor (if applicable) to comply with conditions laid down in the ‘Construction Phase Health & Safety Plan’ for the project.
Our health and safety advisor also acts as our CDM advisor for our projects, ensuring all requirements under the regulations are met and where necessary drawing to our attention, areas where improvements can be made.
Where we undertake design activities as specified by the regulations, we ensure that all relevant information is collated accordingly and provided for inclusion within the projects ‘pre-construction information’ pack. During the project design process, we ensure that health and safety risks are reduced as far as is reasonably practicable, taking into account the general principles of prevention.
