Health And Safety Policy
Aims
- Establish and maintain a safe and healthy environment throughout the Parish
- Establish and maintain safe working procedures for contractors and Councillors
- Make arrangements for ensuring safety and absence of risks to health in connection with the use, handling, storage and transport of articles and substances
Objectives
- Formulate effective procedures for reporting risks
- Lay down procedures to be followed when risks are identified
- Monitor the effectiveness of the policy and revise and amend as necessary
Reporting
- All identified risks to be reported at the Parish Council’s monthly meetings
- Steps taken to rectify such risks to be reported to the Parish Council monthly
- Any situation which cannot be resolved by the Parish Council to be reported immediately to West Lindsey District Council
- To ensure adequate insurance cover is in place for Council owned property
- To ensure Health and Safety is discussed regularly and a reasonable contingency budget is set
- To carry out annual health check
This policy will be reviewed at the Annual Parish Council meeting in May
Signed ……………………………………………… Chairman
Date ……………………………….