Safety Statement In Health And Social Care

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Introduction
The legislation demands that the Safety Statement specifies a number of things in relation to the workplace and the “manner in which the safety health and welfare at work of his or her employees shall be secured and managed”
One of these specific requirements is “the names and, where applicable, the job title or position held of each person responsible for performing tasks assigns to him or her pursuant to the Safety Statement” ….

The law always speaks of duty or responsibility, which is fine so far as it goes. However, you cannot be held responsible for something if you do not have the clear authority to make decisions about it; you are only responsible for something in direct proportion to the amount of authority you have …show more content…

There is need for a third box on this table of job titles and names of incumbents; it will be entitled Name of Deputy or Substitute. In other words, the law requires that, you not only determine clearly, in writing, the name of the actual person you have given the authority to, you must also decide who will stand in for that person when s/he is absent, for any reason, and you will write this name down too in your Safety …show more content…

With this exercise done, we can now proceed, in the next chapter, to the development of the details of the various authority levels, so far as the Safety Statement and the Safety and Health Programme is concerned

The levels of authority shown in the chart below are numbered and these numbers will be used again in the HIRA documents to make the work on them less repetitive.
The Safety function here is shown to have a Safety Department headed by a Safety Manager to whom all safety and health related functions report as well as the existence of an outside Safety Consultant and a doctor on contract who functions as the OMO. This will not be typical of most organizations; if there is a full time Safety Manager there will not normally be need for a Safety Consultant on contract. In many organizations the Safety Manager’s function will be combined with that of some other function, the manager of which will not have the necessary Safety and Health qualifications and will therefore retain the services of a Safety Consultant on a contract basis as well as that of a doctor as

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