HSE refreshes advice on managing health and safety
Updated guidance, which aims to help larger organisations manage health and safety more easily, has been unveiled by the HSE.
The refreshed ‘Managing for Health and Safety’ guidance, known as HSG65, is split into four key sections:
core elements of managing for health and safety;
delivering effective arrangements;
resources; and
are you doing what you need to?
This guidance moves away from the ‘Policy, Organising, Planning, Measuring performance, Auditing and Review’ (POPMAR) model towards a ‘Plan, Do, Check, Act’ approach, which aims to achieve a balance between the systems and behavioural aspects of management.
While the ‘Managing for Health and Safety’ guidance is targeted at larger organisations, it is accompanied on the HSE website by ‘Health and Safety Made Simple’ and ‘Health and Safety Toolbox’, both of which are aimed primarily at supporting the needs of small and medium-sized enterprises.
Lead author of ‘Managing for Health and Safety’ Andrew Cottam said: “Each level of guidance offers appropriately targeted information focused on making compliance as straightforward as possible.
“Following the guidance is not compulsory, unless specifically stated, and businesses are free to take other action, but if they do follow the guidance they will normally be doing enough to comply with the law.”
HSE refreshes advice on managing health and safety
Updated guidance, which aims to help larger organisations manage health and safety more easily, has been unveiled by the HSE.
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