LRS Flooring Specialists

Management Of Health And Safety

The management of health and safety is covered by The Management of Health and Safety at Work Regulations 1999. Further information is contained in the Approved Code of Practice L21.

The Company will, in accordance with the above Regulations, carry out the following activities to provide health and safety for their employees.

Assess the risks to the health and safety of each employee and of anyone else who may be affected the work activity. The clear identification of all foreseeable risks will enable the necessary preventive and protective measures to be implemented.

The principals of prevention, as required by the above Regulations will be applied so far as is reasonably practicable.

Each assessment will outline the hazards and risks associated with each working activity and highlight the controls necessary to minimise the risks from the hazards identified.

The risk assessment will then be recorded and copies made available at the workplace.

The site manager will bring to the attention of the workforce all the necessary precautions detailed in written risk assessment and will monitor the operations to ensure that each operative is acting in accordance with the details outlined in the written assessment.

L.R.S FLOORING SPECIALISTS will make arrangements for putting into practice all the control measures that have been identified as being necessary in the risk assessment.

Health surveillance for employees will be provided where the risk assessment shows it to be necessary.

Competent people will be appointed, and where necessary, specialists consulted to ensure that all necessary steps are taken to comply with the duties under health and safety law.

The Company will ensure the co-operation and co-ordination of contractors who share the same workplace and ensure that all operatives have adequate capabilities and training to carry out the tasks allotted to them whilst at work.

Temporary workers will be given particular health and safety information to meet their special requirements.

Specific care must be taken to incorporate the need for language diversity with the necessary language of employees taken into consideration when giving them information on health and safety measures.