How to manage health and safety ?

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How to manage health and safety ?

Managing health and safety is an integral part of managing your business. You need to do a risk assessment to find out about the risks in your workplace, put sensible measures in place to control them, and make sure they stay controlled.

‘Plan,Do, Check, Act’  is an approach for managing health and safety and assessing the risks in your workplace.

Planning for health and safety

Planning is the key to ensuring your health and safety arrangements really work. It helps you think through the actions you have set out in your policy and work out how they will happen in practice. Consider:

• What you want to achieve, eg how you will ensure that your employees and others are kept healthy and safe at work;
• How you will decide what might cause harm to people and whether you are doing enough or need to do more to prevent that harm;
• How you will prioritise the improvements you may need to make;
• Who will be responsible for health and safety tasks, what they should do, when and with what results;
• How you will measure and review whether you have achieved what you set out to do.