TAM's Health and Safety Policy Template

If your organisation has more than four employees then you are legally required to have a Health and Safety Policy.

Based on the HSE'sThe "Health and Safety Executive",
see their website:
http://www.hse.gov.uk/index.htm requirements for the Health and Safety Policy, it is clear that they want this policy in place in order to establish who is responsible for what aspects of Health and Safety in your organisation. There is also little doubt that the HSE'sThe "Health and Safety Executive",
see their website:
http://www.hse.gov.uk/index.htm sees this as a very important document, and it is likely to be one of the first things they will ask to see if there has been an incident in your workplace.

Many companies create potential trouble for themselves with the Health and Safety Policy. Two common mistakes we have seen made are, firstly, some businesses overcomplicate their Policy and, in doing so, create potential contradictions or shortcomings as to what is actually being done about Health and Safety in their business

A second common mistake is to produce a hardcopy of the Health and Safety Policy, which is then put in a drawer and forgotten about. The company then fails to keep the document up-to-date to reflect, for example, changes in personnel, etc.

TAM's Health and Safety Policy template will help you as follows

• TAM's Health and Safety Policy template is simple and straightforward, and is largely automated, making it easy to use.
• TAM provides a standard template of the required "Statement of General Policy" (the first part of the Health and Safety Policy template), which you can edit and tailor to suit your organisation.
• TAM provides you with a general Health and Safety Policy template that is easy to populate. The Health and Safety Policy is required to be site specific and, if you have more than one site, then TAM will automatically provide you with a Health and Safety Policy template for each site.
• Once you have nominated the persons to take charge of the different responsibilities listed in the Health and Safety Policy template, the TAM software will then generate AGTAGs ATAG/AGTAGs - Automatically
  Generated TAG.
  This is a Task automatically
  generated by TAM.  (or Tasks) for these people to ensure they carry out their responsibilities in accordance with the Health and Safety Policy.
• TAM will flag up to the site-responsible person the need for the Health and Safety Policy to be updated and re-approved should anyone mentioned in the Policy leave the company.
  
• Finally, the TAM Health and Safety software will remind you to review and re-approve the Health and Safety Policy on an annual basis.

All of this will ensure the Health and Safety Policy is an active working document that will actually help to maintain good Health and Safety and risk management standards in your workplace.