King edward vii college

King Edward VII College

Health and Safety Policy and Procedures

Purpose

This policy applies to all workers at King Edward VII College. To outline the necessary steps taken to ensure the continued safety of the work environment for all students, staff and others participating in any activities within the premises or under the employment of King Edward VII College.

All employees as well as King Edward VII College are responsible for ensuring a healthy and safe workplace.

Definitions

Overview

King Edward VII College recognises the importance of providing a safe and healthy environment for staff, contractors and visitors during their participation in work.

King Edward VII College aspires for excellence in workplace health and safety and is committed to providing an environment which is free from risks and conducive to the productivity and efficiency needs of its staff and others.

Policy

Compliance with legislation

Organisational responsibility and commitment

Encouraging active participation, cooperation and consultation with all staff and others in the promotion and development of measures to improve health and safety.
Actively responding to, recording and investigating all incidents.

Staff responsibility

All staff including managers have a responsibility to work safely; take all reasonable care for their own health and safety; and always consider the health and safety of others who may be affected by their actions.
When staff are undertaking work from home or at an off-site location, the staff member is responsible for ensuring the environment they enter into is free from risk and occupational health and safety hazards.

Reporting
Records
1. Policies in the organization with reference to Parenting and Pregnancy Policies
2. There should be proper set of leaves like annual leave, sick leave and employee should get some compensation for their annual leave.
Code of Conduct
1. Our Employee Code of Conduct company policy outlines our expectations regarding employees’ behavior towards their colleagues, supervisors and overall organization.

Workplace health and safety inspections

Operations Manager

Control hazards

All hazards identified through any of the above inspections must be reported to the Operations Manager using the Workplace Hazard Report.

All staff

2. Identify and control hazards

Workplace incidents

	Steps	Responsibility
	All serious injuries will be reported to Worksafe.	All staff

Workplace Discrimination and Harassment

Employee performance management and discipline.

5.1

Employee performance management and discipline

Performance should be regularly reviewed using a performance review/appraisal process which helps the employee to understand which areas they are doing well and which areas they are not doing so well and provide opportunities for training and improvement;
Developing and implementing a strategy to close the gap.

All staff