All employers are legally required to prepare a written, work place specific Safety Statement setting how they intend to manage safety and health so as to prevent work place accidents and ill health.
This Safety Statement must be a credible, working, action document that is updated as work activities change.
You are required to systematically identify and assess the hazards in your business; work out the chances of an accident happening; and then do something to eliminate or reduce the risk of such an accident.
In preparing your ‘risk assessments’, you must take into account the ‘Principles of Prevention’ that are laid down in the 2005 Act.
These assessments should then form part of your Safety Statement.
