RATIONALE:
The senior management and staff of Christ’s College is committed to providing and maintaining an environment and system of work that is safe and without undue risk to the physical and emotional health and safety of its employees, pupils and others. We will strive to protect employees, students and those working or visiting our site from accidental injury and protect our property from accidental damage.
OBJECTIVES:
- To provide a safe, hygienic and effective work environment with safe equipment, proper materials and suitably qualified personnel.
- To establish and insist upon safe methods and safe work practices at all times
- To ensure employees, and all other persons on campus understand and accept their responsibilities to promote a safe and healthy place of work.
- To develop and maintain appropriate emergency procedures to render immediate response and first aid.
- To have a process of hazard identification, evaluation, elimination, isolation, and minimisation.
- To comply with all relevant standards and legislative requirements.
- To ensure that contractors and individuals working on our premises comply with our safety policy and ensure that they have policies and procedures in place to eliminate, isolate or minimise potential dangers to all persons, buildings and equipment.
GUIDELINES:
Our Administration Manager has been appointed the Safety Co-ordination duties in joint and direct consultation with our occupational health and safety committee. Together, they will effectively manage health and safety at our premises by:
- Ensuring that every employee is encouraged to share in the responsibility to provide a healthy, safe, work environment, for staff, students and others visiting our site.
- Ensuring that all staff, visitors and contractors read the hazard and safety handbook, paying particular attention to the hazards and safety rules sections therein.
- Ensuring that any incidents or accidents are reported in an accurate manner so that the appropriate action may be adopted.
The responsibility for safety will be adopted as an integral part of everyday work, therefore it is vital that every employee shares in the commitment to eliminate unsafe acts and conditions by thinking safely and acting with safely at all times. We will monitor our conformance to quality standards and will consult with Government bodies and other stakeholders in the development of effective safety techniques and standards.
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