A committee is a group of people brought together to manage, address or oversee a particular organisation, part of an organisation or a particular problem or issue. A safety committee addresses health and safety issues within the company and therefore it is important to conduct effective meetings.
The culture of an organisation makes the greatest contribution to its health and safety performance. Unfortunately culture is not an easy concept to understand, measure or manage. A good health and safety management system can go some way to setting the scene for developing a good culture, but it goes much deeper than that. Read…
The following article explains five critical steps in order to successfully manage health and safety within your business. These steps include setting your policy, organising your staff, planning and setting standards, measuring your performance and learning from your experiences through audits and reviews. Five steps to success in managing health and safety This booklet summarises…
The following checklist can be used as an aid in the writing and reviewing of a health and safety policy. It is derived from UK HSE Information. General policy and organisation: Are the obligations towards your employees made clear and does the statement express a commitment to health and safety? Does it say…
A risk assessment is a systematic examination of a task, job or process that you carry out at work for the purpose of; Identifying the significant hazards that are present (a hazard is something that has the potential to cause someone harm or ill health). Three types of risk assessments: Baseline risk assessments (Baseline HIRA)…
Health and Safety often gets overlooked yet it is so vitally important. Employees will not be able to perform their jobs to the best of their ability if their health and safety is not made a priority. So where do you begin? Here is a handy guideline on how to successfully manage the Health and…
The following article has been extracted from Southafrica.net. 2015. Smoking Laws in South Africa. [ONLINE] Available at:http://www.southafrica.net/za/en/travel-tips/entry/travel-tip-smoking. [Accessed 14 September 15]. South Africa became one of the first countries in the world to ban smoking in public places in 2000 when it introduced its Tobacco Products Control Amendment Act. The act put a serious dent in…
The following information has been extracted from: Health and Safety Executive. (1999) Write a health and safety policy for your business. [Online] Available from: http://www.hse.gov.uk/simple-health-safety/write.htm[Accessed 7 September 2015]. By explaining how the business will manage the health and safety policy within the organisation, staff and stakeholders will become aware of the businesses commitment to health and…
The Secret to Successful Meetings
