By Pat Perry
The time period 'risk evaluation' is all too wide-spread in enterprise and applies not just to wellbeing and fitness and safeguard but additionally different company tactics. The Turnball document targeted the minds of many companies on danger administration, yet whereas we may possibly understand that we needs to adopt danger exams in well-being and security, there's frequently a scarcity of information and realizing on the right way to do it and what's 'suitable and sufficient'.
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Step 4: Measure your performance • • • • • • • Have you or can you measure with regard to your health and safety performance: where you are where you want to be where the difference is why? Are you practising active monitoring or simply reacting when things go wrong? Is there a culture of recording near misses or do you wait for accidents to happen? Can you benchmark how you perform against another department, company or other organisation? Do you know how well you are really doing or does it just ‘look good on paper’?
Failure to comply with a Prohibition Notice carries a fine of up to £20 000 in the magistrates’ court, or an unlimited fine in the Crown Court. Imprisonment of persons who contravene a Prohibition Notice is also an available option for the courts — both magistrates’ and Crown Courts. Where employers or others fail to comply with a Prohibition Notice and continue, for example, to use defective machinery, and where, as a consequence of using that defective machinery, a serious accident occurs, there will invariably be a prosecution and the courts are likely to take a serious view and hand down prison sentences.
Does it specify who is responsible for what and who has overall safety responsibility? Does it give responsibilities to directors and is there a clear commitment that the health and safety culture starts at the top? Does it specify arrangements for carrying out risk assessments, identifying hazards, implementation of control measures? Does it name competent persons? Does it state how health and safety matters will be communicated throughout the organisation? Does it have safety objectives? MHSW Regulations 1999 • • I 33 Has it had a beneficial effect on the business?