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Posted By Mike White
Any advice please,
I have recently joined a small manufacturing company and been asked to review the company health & safety procedure's. I only have an NVQ 3 in OHS but it would appear its far more than any of other managers, so Tick its me.
Worse still I seem to have inherited ring binders full of gibberish that were the company health & safety records/documents/policies.
So taking the bull by the horns i ploughed in with new policy, risk assessments, safety sampling ect. covering all that was required. Now I can't see the wood for trees, how to pull all this together into a coherent system?
I was looking to audit all the information but not sure what would work best, are there any examples of formats that I could look at?
Would anybody have any suggestions?
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Posted By Dan dan
had the same problem at our place
The way I sorted it was look at what we did as a business and look at the procedures relating to those specific areas (or lack of)and develop from there
take it through the 18001 / 9001 and 14001 route - less work if you are going to go that route. Time table / plan how you are going to achieve it - in fact best way to do it enroll onto an NVQ 4 so HSG 65 and your policys will develop from there and u get a qual out of it too
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Posted By Andrew Joule Land
There are some good systems available that give guidance of how to start and set up systems - one called "GEE Competent Person" - most advertise in SHP - cost around 200 pounds plus. - also ask if your company will sponsor you on the IOSH Managing Safely course if they haven't done so already.
Best of Luck
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Posted By Mike White
Thanks for the response guys,
As usual cash is the problem, I've already coerced the directors into health surveillance for noise, we now have trained first aiders, all personnel have now hold FLT licenses. So its getting more difficult to part the directors from their bottom line profit. Thought I'd look to see if there was anything out there that I could cobble together for nowt before approaching the powers that be.
Mike White (Begging bowl in hand)
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Posted By Bob Shillabeer
Mike, Its not that hard to do, blank sheet approach is often the best as you don't have other peoples baggage to worry about especially if the previous person is still about.
I was appointed to my present role about 3 years ago and took on a mass of work done by others which never became our system anyway. I started from scratch by looking at what we do as a company and identifying our legal responsibilities and adding what our senior management wanted. I suggest the first point is the HASAW Act, then the management regs followed by specifics such as Regulatory Reform Fire Order, DSE, Noise, Work at Height, Electricity at work, first aid, safety signs, safety committees, PPE, PUWER, RIDDOR, COSSH, Workplace regs and manual handling. I developed simple arrangements to manage each issue. Not knowing what your company does means I am unable to point you in any specific direction but look through the index of safety legislation and identify what is applicable to your particular activity and build you system from there.
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Posted By Bob Shillabeer
Mike, I forgot to say when identifying a specific legal requirement take the view "if it don't apply forget it"
Bob.
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Posted By Merv Newman
Mike,
I hate to say this, but many managers take the "bottom line" approach and will not pay for your training.
Try to think long term from your own point of view and see if you can spare enough from your housekeeping money to pay for additional training/qualifications. (cut down on the beer and fags)
"Managing safety" is a pretty good guide as is a detailed read of 18001/2
Don't try to do more than you need to do and give yourself a couple of years to do it.
Complying with the old "six-pack" used to be a good start. Unfortunately it is nowadays more of a "cadbury's 99" With strawberry sauce.
Last word : enjoy what you are doing and be proud of what you have achieved.
Merv
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Posted By Tracey C
Hi Mike
I had to actually write our policy and procedures manual last year as we did not have one and i was the only safety person the company had. Know how you feel once you have a starting point it seems to get easier. Drop me an e-mail and i will see if i have anything that may help you.
Regards
T
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Posted By Andrew Joule Land
revert to stealth - invite the HSE to visit - (even if it is only for a coffee) then inform the directors when they are coming . Their bums will be making buttons, but I would lay odds that they will put their hands in their pockets
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