Health, Safety and Wellbeing Policy
Alex Rius Consultants cares about our people, our communities and those that we influence by our actions. We are committed to meeting all applicable standards of health, safety and wellbeing and strive for zero harm in everything we do, embedding a positive safety culture through engagement and collaboration.
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We operate responsibly, ensuring compliance, ethics and integrity are central to everything we do in health and safety.
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We support our people through a positive working environment that protects and promotes physical and mental wellbeing.
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We will commit to relevant legal requirements, standards, and professional codes.
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We will integrate health, safety and wellbeing into our design, advice and decisions.
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We will ensure, so far as is reasonably practicable, that the workplace and working environment are maintained in a safe condition with adequate heating, lighting and ventilation, and that suitable welfare facilities are provided and maintained.
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We will ensure adequate instruction, training and supervision is provided to manage and enforce safe working practices.
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We will also strive to comply with all current working Health and Safety Executive Approved Codes of Practices’ (ACOPs) and Guidance.
We will conduct, record and suitably review risk assessments to manage any identified workplace or work-related possible, or foreseeable, hazards and/or associated risks, including those relating to occupational health and fire safety, in order to determine the necessary measures to eliminate, reduce or suitably control risks to an acceptable level.
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We will communicate any significant findings and full risk assessments to all persons and areas foreseeably to be affected.
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We will review and monitor our Health & Safety performance in order to reduce the potential for work-related injuries, cases of occupational ill health or other incidents (such as fires or dangerous occurrences).
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This Policy will be reviewed and approved annually by the Board. The Board will act to ensure that the aims set out in this policy are being achieved, while fulfilling applicable legal, regulatory, and other requirements.