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DO WE NEED A SEPARATE HEALTH AND SAFETY POLICY?
If you have ve or more employees, you are required (like all businesses) to have a written health and safety policy (Management of Health and Safety
at Work Regulations 1999). In addition, the charity trustees are required to assess the risks to employees and people affected by the charity’s activities and ensure that they have arranged for the effective planning, organisation, control, monitoring and review of preventative and protective measures.
The policy does not have to be complicated or time consuming to prepare. The HSE have provided template documents that can be downloaded and used (see the further reading notes below).
The health and safety policy should be in addition to (or a sub-set of) the risk management policy in place for the charity. Not all aspects of the risk management policy will relate to health and safety issues.
Other policies to consider that may be relevant:
Disaster Recovering Policy
Health and Safety Policy
Financial Controls & Budgets
Safeguarding
Social Media Policy
Skills Audit Policy
PR & Media Policy
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