22nd February 2006, 12:13 PM
Beamo,
We just disagree about the relative importance. My misgivings about H&S Policy Statement is solely based on my unit's document. While it does give the H&S infrastructure, details of responsibilities and a list of relevant legislation etc it fails to provide the practical advice. Such is partly covered in our RA forms, but these often cross ref to generic RAs in our H&S MANUAL (akin to SCAUM). For example, recently there was a site access issue. The site director noted this in their RA form, and a decision to use a ladder was taken. The site director was pointed to a relevant section in our manual (which was remarkably similar to the SCAUM advice
) that gave appropriate advice and legislative background about correct and safe procedures. The alternative would have been to send him to the HSE web site to look into legislation, advice etc on putting up a ladder. There's lots to read and life's too short 
We just disagree about the relative importance. My misgivings about H&S Policy Statement is solely based on my unit's document. While it does give the H&S infrastructure, details of responsibilities and a list of relevant legislation etc it fails to provide the practical advice. Such is partly covered in our RA forms, but these often cross ref to generic RAs in our H&S MANUAL (akin to SCAUM). For example, recently there was a site access issue. The site director noted this in their RA form, and a decision to use a ladder was taken. The site director was pointed to a relevant section in our manual (which was remarkably similar to the SCAUM advice
) that gave appropriate advice and legislative background about correct and safe procedures. The alternative would have been to send him to the HSE web site to look into legislation, advice etc on putting up a ladder. There's lots to read and life's too short