Our organisation wouldn't call these accountabilities, and I'd see them split into two: Both of the first 2 - "I will operate equipment as per my training and any other relevant company controls in place at that time. I will select the most appropriate piece of equipment for the task to be completed." Are just bits of the training and surely could be unsaid if your operators are deemed competent, as the options are: "I will operate equipment in others ways as to how I've been trained & select the wrong tools for the job" The second two I think are controls you might put in place as part of your risk assessment (and probably are). Can you not expect employees to follow agreed requirements of a risk assessment? I will not use a mobile phone, including the store phone, whilst operating the equipment. I will sound the horn whenever entering the goods in area, through strip curtains and when approaching blind corners. The organisations risk assessment requires staff not to use mobile phones while operating equipment and drivers are required to sound horns....etc. Failure to do this may cause unacceptable hazards. Wooops I'm rambling... But each requirement sounds perfectly acceptable to me if your risk assessments have identified them. do they work? Probably only if enforced as they should be through monitoring by supervising staff. If they are not being followed or enforced I'd suspect the legal issues would be around your organisation identifying hazards, putting in place the required safety protocols then not enforcing them. There have been a couple of prosecutions where large manafacturing firms have had in place safety systems and then knowingly permitted staff to circumvent them.

Hi, I have forwarded what we use as a coverall template to you, however i THINK that the question is about behaviours, and as such We have tried to go through the behaviours we want, as a one page document, because it wants to be applied in different situations. By looking at behaviours that are both good and bad, then it's a case of showing where you want them to be, as well as pointing out what happens if they don't. I also have said in the meetings, that it was better if we have the talk before rather than after the issue. At least they know where they stand.