Health and Safety Policy

To meet our commitment to protecting our colleagues, visitors and customers we:

• Identify hazards from our working practices and conduct focused risk assessments
• Devise proportionate measures to control identified risks
• Provide information, instruction, supervision, training and resources to colleagues to enable them to understand the risks from their work and appropriate means to protect themselves and others
• Provide a source of competent health and safety advice for all colleagues
• Design safe access, egress, use and maintenance into new buildings, work equipment, fixtures & fittings
• Maintain buildings, work equipment, fixtures and fittings to control risk from disrepair
• Work with contractors and neighbours to achieve synergies between our safety practices and policies
• Integrate sound health and safety management principles into business decisions.

To meet our commitment to continual improvement in health and safety we:

• Monitor progress on health and safety standards, performance indicators and objectives
• Investigate accidents to identify how to reduce the chance of reoccurrence
• Actively review significant risk areas to identify suitable opportunities for improvement
• Encourage and evaluate feedback from all parties on our safety management
• Liaise assertively and honestly with enforcement officers
• Reviewing key Health and safety issues, trends and progress at Board level at least quarterly.

To live our philosophy of “each accountable all responsible” for health & safety we:

• Report health and safety performance indicators and progress to the Board at least quarterly
• Recognise that each member of the Executive has direct responsibility for the area under his or her control
• Nominate the People Director as the person who champions health and safety at Board level
• Confirm that all levels of line management are responsible for day-to-day management of health and safety
• Confirm that every colleague whilst at work is responsible to take reasonable care and co-operate with the company in applying its safety procedures.

We detail the organisational arrangements for delivering this policy in the following documents:

• Induction and refresher safety training
• Risk Assessment Books
• Audit and Inspections documentation
• Standard Operating Procedures and other H&S documentation
• Health and Safety updates

If you have any concerns relating to the implementation of our policy statement, please contact the Whistle-blowing Hotline: 01527 513 513 or email: wb@halfords.co.uk.