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Health and Safety Management

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Sound health and safety management controls the health and safety risks of a business organisation and activities, products and services and ensures that the business is compliant with all applicable legal requirements. 

A structured approach to health and safety enables a company to: 

• Eliminate or minimize risk to employees and other interested parties.
• Maintain and continually improve on health and safety performance.
• Ensure compliance within health and safety law.
• Demonstrate this conformance to others.
• Seek certification of the health and safety management system by an external organisation, if deemed appropriate. 

The first steps for any company are:

• To assign health and safety accountabilities and responsibilities.
• To ensure access to competent health and safety resources.
• To develop a health and safety policy.
• To identify company health and safety risks.
• To conduct a risk assessment.
• To develop procedures that describe how to manage key health and safety risks.
• To ensure employees have received appropriate training.
• To ensure a process is in place to enable employee consultation to take place.

The next step, full implementation of a health and safety management system involves development and implementation of procedures and systems covering 17 major building blocks:

• Headline policies.
• Planning for hazard identification, risk assessment and risk control.
• Legal and other requirements.
• Objectives.
• Health and safety management programme(s).
• Structure and responsibility.
• Training, awareness and competence.
• Consultation and communication.
• Documentation.
• Document and data control.
• Operational control.
• Emergency preperation and response.
• Performance measurement and monitoring.
• Accidents, incidents, non conformances and corrective and preventive actions.
• Records and records management.
• Audit.
• Management review. 

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