Health and Safety

3. Personnel

3.1 Provide appropriate health and safety training for all employees.

• Include health and safety in induction, particularly for employees who will be placed in hazardous situations, and when employees are moved to another department or site.
• Carry out a risk assessment and provide training whenever new equipment is introduced or working practices change.
• Monitor employee behaviour to ensure that training is effective and that health and safety procedures are being followed.

3.2 Provide health and safety information for all employees.

• You must display the poster 'Health and Safety Law: What you should know' (£7.50 from HSE Books), or distribute the leaflet. Small quantities of the leaflet can be obtained free of charge from HSE Books (see 8.2). Copies can also be printed from the HSE website .
• You must give employees information about risks to their health and safety, and about the preventive measures that are in place to control risks.
• Use appropriate safety signs. For example, for hard hat areas, slippery surfaces etc.

3.3 Involve employees in health and safety.

• Employees have the right to be consulted about issues which affect them.
• It may help to set up a safety committee.

3.4 Include health and safety in employees' contracts.

• Remind employees that they are legally responsible for their behaviour as it affects the health and safety of themselves and others. You are also responsible for their behaviour.
• Make behaviour which breaches your policy a disciplinary offence.