Our health and safety policy

GENERAL STATEMENT OF HEALTH & SAFETY POLICY

Our Policy is to ensure, so far as is reasonably practicable, the health, safety and welfare of all employees, visitors, contractors and members of the public who may be affected by our activities.

We will fully comply with the duties placed upon us by Statutory Legislation and at all times follow the requirements of Approved Codes of Practice and Guidance Notes to best practice issued by the Health and Safety Executive.

To achieve the highest possible standards of health and safety, our objective is to see that everything practical is undertaken to prevent injury and ill health by ensuring:

• A safe and healthy working environment
• Safe systems and methods of work
• Suitable and sufficient training, information, instruction and supervision
• Completion, and regular revision, of risk assessments
• Regular consultation with employees
• Adequate welfare facilities
• Sufficient financial and other resources are made available
• Continuous improvement and annual review of the Policy
• Access to competent health and safety advisor.

In preparing the Health and Safety Policy, the Managing Director has declared that the following principles of prevention will apply to the control and management of risk within the Company:

• Where possible, risk will be avoided altogether by adopting alternative work methods
• Unavoidable risks will be evaluated by risk assessment
• Priority will be given to risk controls that protect the whole workforce; collective protection will take priority over individual control techniques.

Health and Safety is everyone's responsibility and employees must do all that is reasonably practicable to prevent injury to themselves and others who may be affected by their acts or omissions.

Where an employee considers that the arrangements for health and safety are inadequate, they are encouraged to report the matter to the Managing Director at the earliest opportunity.