Health and Safety Policy

Part 1: Statement of intent:

Health and Safety at Work (NI) Order 1978

This is the health and safetypolicy statement of:

Our statement of general policy is:

to provide adequate control of health and safety risks arising from our work and activities;
to consult with our employees on matters affecting their health and safety;
to ensure safe handling;
to provide information, instruction and supervision for employees;
to ensure all employees are competent to do their tasks, and to give them adequate training;
to ensure all participating in our activities are given adequate training.
to prevent accidents and cases of work related ill health;
to ensure safe and healthy training conditions;
to maintain safe and healthy working conditions; and
to review and revise this policy as necessary at regular intervals.

Date Review date

Part 2: Responsibilities

Overall and final responsibility for health and safety is that of

Day-to day responsibility for ensuring this policy is put into practice is delegated to

All employees have to:

1) co-operate on health and safety matters;

2) not to interfere with anything provided to safegaurd their health and safety;

3) take reasonable care of their own health and safety; and

4) report all health and safety concerns to an appropiate person (as detailed)

3) Risk assessments

Risk assessments will be undertaken by:

Action required to remove/control risks will be reported to:

Action required to remove/control risks will be approved by:

The person responsible for ensuring the action required is implemented is:

The person that will check that the implemented actions have removed/reduced the risks

Karen McGuinness

Assessments will be reviewed every:

Competency for task and training

All staff delivering training will hold autism specific qualifications.

Training records are kept by:

Training will be identified, arranged and monitored by:

Accidents, first-aid and work related ill health

We will adhere to the health and safety policies of any premise that we hire to deliver training from. All accidents will be logged by the centre where we hold any training.

Monitoring

The following person is responsible for monitoring our working conditions and to check that safe working practices are being followed:

The following person is responsible for investigating accidents:

The following person is responsible for acting on findings to prevent a recurrence of any accidents:

Emergency procedures: fire and evacuation

The following person is responsible for ensuring that the fire exits/escape routes are checked and known at every centre that we hire to deliver training:

The following person will inform any delegates of where the fire exits are: