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Posted By Christopher Walker
The quandary I'm currently facing is the amalgamation of subsidiary companies into one group. We now have 5 companies working within the heading of Group but will one Health and Safety policy cover all companies involved within the group?
This question was raised by the board of directors when I was requesting sign-off for the Health and Safety policy. If I name every subsidiary company then the policy becomes a much larger document.
Your views would be appreciated.
Chris
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Posted By Martyn Hendrie
Your heading is entitles "legal entity" so I shall address that first.
Within a business there may be a number of legal entities. A group company may be a plc but it in turn may have set up a number of "limited companies" that it wholly owns. Each company and the plc are separate legal entities.
In my experience, where there is a group company it will establish a "Group H&S Policy." This can either be adopted by each subsidiary company without alteration or each subsidiary company may be able to add to the group policy to meet its own requirements.
It would not be normal for the subsidiary company to alter things by removal of requirements in the group policy.
Hope this helps
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Posted By Robert K Lewis
It may also be simpler to look at it from the viewpoint of the group policy setting the strategic policy with each functional subsidiary setting out a policy defining how it will meet the group policy with respect to its own sphere of work. It may also have additional objectives that it seeks to achieve.
The general answer then is almost certainly yes that each should do this.
Bob
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