There are a number of DVD's on the market place as education tools which touch on generic management responsibilities but ultimately it will be your organisations arrangements & Policy's which will clearly define each teir or responsibility & accountability regarding the manangement of safety & resource within your organisation.

I totally agree that it is all dictated by your companys H&S Policy and yes it is all written there.

The challenge is that new Directors come into the work environment and seem to either forget or assume someone else/Director has this to hand.

I asked recently about the reading/awareness of an improvement notice from the HSE department of our council by the CEO, and the reply was '' do you think CEO really reads it.''

Therefore if the documentation is sitting on a shelf without being read, i am wondering if i can best present it in a meeting.

Roland - you might like to consider getting it added to ALL job decriptions. This was an issue for us as a result of some enforcement action in the recent past and the HSE were quite insistent that job desriptions clearly set out H&S responsibilities at all levels of the organisation. We came up with a form of words setting out employee responsibilities (that obviously inlcudes Directors too) and a further set of responsibilities for those with a management role.