 Phoenix Asbestos Health & Safety Policy Statement
Statement of General Safety Policy
This policy of Phoenix Asbestos Recovery Limited is to promote the highest practical standards of safety, health and welfare throughout its organisation in the performance of its activities.
To endeavour, so far as is reasonably practicable, to make and maintain its offices, depots, workshops and site establishments as healthy places in which to work and to avoid accidents in respect of its employees, its property, third parties and their property.
The promotion of safety and health at work is a mutual objective for both employer and employee and the responsibilities of management cannot be properly discharged without the active co-operation of all employees.
Policy Statement
The Health and Safety at Work etc. Act 1974 and other Regulations introduced under its enabling powers imposed statutory duties on employers and employees.
To enable these statutory duties to be carried out, it is the policy of Phoenix Asbestos Recovery Limited, so far as is reasonably practicable, to ensure that the responsibilities for health and safety are accepted and fulfilled at all levels of the company.
Practical steps are taken to safeguard the health, safety and welfare of all employees, visitors and others on premises or operations under our control.
It is the intention of Phoenix Asbestos Recovery Limited, so far as is reasonably practicable, to ensure that:
- there is provision and maintenance of plant and systems of work to ensure that they are safe and without risk to health
- there are adequate arrangements for the use, handling, storage and transport of articles and substances for use at work, which are safe and without risk to health
- there is provision of such information, instruction, training and supervision as is necessary to secure the health and safety at work of all employees
- with regard to any premises under Phoenix Asbestos Recovery Limited’s control or operation on which company employees are working, there is maintenance of all plant, machinery and equipment so that they are safe, not only to employees and sub-contractors but to any other person who may be affected
- the working environment of all employees is safe and without risk to health and that adequate provisions are made with regard to facilities and arrangements for their welfare at work
- the operations will be carried out in such a way that persons not in our employment who may be affected are not exposed to risks to their health or safety.
It shall be the duty of every employee at work to:
- co-operate with company management, so far as is necessary to enable the employer to carry out their legal duty under the Health and Safety at Work etc. Act 1974
- to take reasonable precautions for the health and safety of him/herself and of other persons who may be affected by his/her acts or omissions at work
- not to interfere intentionally or recklessly with anything provided for their health, safety or welfare.
The policy and manual defines the levels of individual responsibility and arrangements throughout the company. Eventually responsibility for fulfilling the defined responsibilities and arrangements is vested in the undersigned, whose address is:
Phoenix House
Llys Felin Newydd
Phoenix Way
Swansea
West Glamorgan
SA7 9FG
Signed
R S Bell
Director
Phoenix Asbestos Recovery Limited
January 2002
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