Hello

Looking for inspiration - has anyone introduced a whole new suite of H&S procedures/standards to an organisation. If so how did you consult and approve these. We currently have a new management system to implement and are looking at how we can consult and approve for the formal acceptance of them and also to have the back up if challenged that they have been approved. Asking our H&S Committee to review and approve these in a few weeks is not practical.

Any suggestions?

Thank you in advance

Hi Hopeful,

I am currently engaged in just such an activity, so I'm able to describe how I'm going about it.

For starters, fortunately, I am a member of the site Senior Management Team, which helps enormously in this context. To start, I made an overall plan of compliance to the regulatory environment that we operate in, so that other members could see what I was trying to do, and the timescales expected. This then got communicated up to holding company board level, at the behest of the Chairman. I have then been putting various procedures and processes in front of everyone according to my plan timescale (using my weekly report as the communication tool), talking them through and getting amendments and buy-in at our weekly Management Meetings. The meetings are minuted, and so formal acceptance (or otherwise) is achieved and recorded in this way.

I write up a Management System Change Note to introduce any new procedure into the system, so that I have the document control element covered should we ever decide to do ISO 45001 in the future.

If you don't have the luxury of being in this position yourself, then maybe your boss needs to step up to the plate and assist you in this regard? PM me if you would like more details etc.

All the best!