DG Legal

This Precedent role profile is suitable for a health and safety (H&S) manager and combines the elements of a job description and job specification. The role involves overseeing the organisation’s day-to-day compliance with our health and safety policies and procedures. It also involves assisting with the organisation’s health and safety risk assessment and planning and overseeing the implementation of the measures for controlling those risks.

This Precedent Health and safety plan outlines arrangements and measures to control and manage the risks identified in a health and safety risk assessment and key issues to be addressed. It forms part of our health and safety suite of Precedents.

This Precedent: Health and safety policy review record can be used to document your regular reviews of your health and safety policy.

This Precedent can be used to document urgent actions you have identified and wish to prioritise as a result of a health and safety risk assessment. It may be incorporated into your health and safety plan or maintained as a separate document.

This Precedent health and safety questionnaire can be used to obtain direct input from your staff on health and safety issues that you can use in developing your health and safety policy and plan.

This Precedent Health and safety schedule of inspection and testing is intended to help you document your health and safety tests. You should test your health and safety arrangements regularly to ensure they are effective and document tests carried out, including the results of the tests and actions taken as a result of testing if applicable.

This Precedent Health and safety—annual review will help you to conduct an annual review of your health and safety arrangements.

This Precedent Homeworking questionnaire for staff will help organisations undertake a form of remote risk assessment of individual arrangements when working from home. It is intended to be completed by individual members of staff and covers health and safety, equipment and technology and information security. Information from the completed checklist can then be evaluated and fed into the organisation’s ongoing health and safety, resourcing and information security planning processes.

This Precedent Homeworking risk evaluation can be used in conjunction with Precedent: Homeworking questionnaire for staff to record your organisation’s evaluation of homeworking arrangements. It includes sections to document the steps you may need to put in place to mitigate the risks.

This Precedent Information, communication and technology (ICT) plan can be used to set out an organisation’s current use of ICT, future goals for the use of ICT and any key issues to be addressed over a defined period.

This Precedent ICT plan—periodic review will help you to monitor and review your organisation’s information and communication technology (ICT) arrangements to check they remain fit for purpose or if they require amending or updating. The frequency of your reviews will depend on your organisation’s use of ICT.

This Precedent ICT (information and communication technology) risk assessment and risk management plan can be used to record the risks associated with any proposed ICT development and how those risks will be managed.  To the extent any specific risk management measures are required, documenting these will help to ensure progress can be assessed and any necessary changes implemented.

This Precedent Information technology (IT) action list can be used to list all IT actions that are planned for the current and future financial years, eg the purchase of new laptops or any website developments.

This Precedent Schedule of current ICT environment—per annum can be used to list all of your ICT resources and any associated maintenance or upgrade needs and/or costs that are planned or will be required in a given financial year.

This Precedent Schedule of key ICT contacts can be used to record the names and contact details of all personnel who take a key role in delivering and maintaining your organisation’s information and communication technology (ICT) resources.

This Precedent Schedule of planned ICT developments can be used to record details of any ICT developments or upgrades required over a specified period, commonly the next two to five years.

This Precedent Workstation health and safety checklist will help ensure an organisation is meeting regulatory requirements and is able to properly assess the risks to employees’ health and safety. The results of any checks should be analysed and fed into the organisation’s ongoing health and safety planning processes.