Health & Safety Policy

Equal Potential CIC recognises and accepts its health and safety duties for providing a safe and healthy working environment (as far as is reasonably practicable) for all its workers and other visitors to its premises under the Health and Safety at Work Act 1974, the Fire Precautions (Workplace) Regulations 1997, the Management of Health and Safety at Work Regulations 1999, other relevant legislation and common law duties of care.

Throughout this Statement, the term “workers” includes both paid and volunteer workers.

It is the policy of our organisation to:

Take all reasonably practicable steps to safeguard the health, safety and welfare of all workers
Provide adequate working conditions to safeguard health and safety of workers
Ensure that any work which is undertaken produces no unnecessary risk to health or safety
Encourage persons to co-operate with the identification of hazards
Provide sufficient information, training, and supervision to enable everyone to avoid hazards
Make, as reasonably practicable, arrangements for protection against risk to health and safety
Make specific assessment of risks for new or expectant mothers and young people under 18

Statutory Duty of the Company

Equal Potential CIC will comply with its duty to ensure, as far as is reasonably practicable, the health, safety and welfare at work of its workers and of visitors to:

Make workplaces safe and without risks to health and assess the risks to it’s workers
Give workers the information, training and supervision necessary for their health and safety
Make arrangements for implementing the health and safety measures identified as necessary
Record the significant findings of the risk assessment
Make sure that the workplace satisfies health, safety and welfare requirements (e.g. ventilation)
Provide free any protective clothing or equipment, where risks aren’t adequately controlled
Report certain injuries, diseases and dangerous occurrences to the appropriate authority
Record any injury suffered by a worker or visitor in the course of employment

Statutory Duty of the Workers

Employees also have legal duties, and Equal Potential CIC confidently requests non-employed (voluntary) workers also to observe these. They include the following:

To take reasonable care for their own health and safety, and that of other people
To cooperate with the company on health and safety
To use work items provided by the company correctly including personal protective equipment
Not to interfere with or misuse anything provided for health, safety and welfare purposes
To report at the earliest opportunity injuries, accidents or dangerous occurrences at work
To not undertake their duties if under the influence of alcohol/drugs

Policy Review

This policy was reviewed in September 2024 and shall be reviewed annually