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#1 Posted : 27 November 2003 10:59:00(UTC)
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Posted By Joe Ridley
Hi there,

I am in the middle of reviewing our Health and Safety policy and would like to ask should details of responsible persons job descriptions be revealed in the policy and should additions be made to the descriptions for additonal H&S responsibilties, or should reference be made to areas of repsonsibilities rather than go into detail?

Hope someone can help clear this one for me

Cheers

Joe
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#2 Posted : 27 November 2003 11:36:00(UTC)
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Posted By Nick House
Hi Joe

I don't see any need to include a person's job description in the H&S policy, as it only needs to go as far as stating who has what responsibility.

Depending on the size/ type of company you are in, you may not even have to mention names - job titles may be sufficient. This also depends on whether everyone has access to a company organogram, although this could always be added as an appendix to the policy document.

Regards

Nick.
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#3 Posted : 27 November 2003 11:56:00(UTC)
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Posted By Robert Paterson
Hi Joe

The HSE have a good leaflet about H&S Policies and can be downloded from the website, free leaflets.

www.hse.gov.uk

The leaflet is called An introduction to Health and Safety - INDG259(rev1). The back pages of the leaflet gives you an example of Health and Safety Policy

Hope that helps

Regards

Robert Paterson
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