Health and Safety Management Essential Questions

Health and Safety Management Essential Questions – Here are the questions that every business owner/manager should be asking to check that their business is managing Health and Safety correctly. Your answers will give you an indication about what your business needs to do next, and of course if you answer ‘No’ to any of them contact me, because you urgently need to take appropriate action to put matters right!

Managing for health and safety questions:

• Have you identified all of your risks?
• Have you assessed those risks?
• Have you implemented systems to control those risks?
• Do you monitor those systems to ensure that they are working?
• Do you monitor your staff to make sure that they are working to those systems?
• Do you provide the tools and equipment for your staff to work safely with?
• Do you ensure that your staff are trained to use those tools and equipment safely?

Leadership Questions:

• Do you demonstrate your business’s commitment to health and safety?
• Do you recognise and have arrangements to deal with the real risks the people in your business face?
• Do you really know what is happening in the workplace; what checks are carried out to tell you what’s happening?
• How often is there a management level review to learn from your past performance and plan for the future?

Competence Questions

• Do you know that everyone has the right training to do their job safely and prevent any health problems?
• Have you or your managers and supervisors the right knowledge and experience to be responsible for health and safety
• Have you got the right health and safety advice (competent) for your company?
• Have I asked them if their tasks are difficult to do safely?

Worker Involvement

• Do you ask your staff what health and safety needs improving and if they have all they need to do the job safely?
• Do you take into account your employees views when there are changes in the workplace that might impact on health and safety and on arrangements for competent advice?
• Do you have suitable arrangements in place for consulting your employees, either directly or through their managers/supervisors?

Health Questions:

• Do you have an occupational health problem in your business and have you taken steps to prevent ill health in your workforce?
• Do your workers know what health risks there are in your business and how they could affect them?

Say YES to all of these questions and more, by contacting me today for your Free informal consultation.