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The SHWW (Safety Health & Welfare at Work) Act 2005 imposes very strict rules on owners, partners, directors and employers. Unlike other responsibilities these obligations cannot be contracted out. The primary document that underpins all health safety in the workplace is a coherent safety policy and procedure document. This is required to prove company policy commitment and to allow interested parties to refer to detail and audit safety management. Careful consideration of the work area can reduce risk and eliminate hazards at source.

All nominated and statutory duty holders will be named and identified to allow proper regulation of the work place. The recent legislation and newer regulations require employers and staff to prove and demonstrate competence and to operate sensible measures to reduce risks or hazards. Mature companies may not be aware of the dramatic changes over the past years, and safety officers may have been promoted or moved on recently, this is not a welcome development. This can leave an obvious vacuum in terms of safety management, which can be dangerous. Highly complex undertakings can also harbour poor communication between departments, and this can also lead to a lack of basic information and compliance to health or safety or risk assessment.

Bad advice can sometimes cost a company badly needed resources, ill informed managers can at times jump to costly conclusions to save a prosecution or injury claim. Connacht Safety School can solve many of these problems for you, by identifying work related illness or disability promptly staff like computer operators can be retrained or mentored to help themselves in the majority of cases. Computer operators can sometimes feel unloved or put upon, repetitive operations can sometimes engender many negative thoughts whilst staff are working. Consideration of the relevant problems can sometimes improve productivity and improve staff morale. Improving mutual respect at the work face will be win-win situation for all persons concerned. The creation and implementation of good safety policies can reap intangible benefits for many undertakings. Good staff relations, less sickness and absenteeism can be a spin off benefit of practical safety management.

The H.S.A at present is promoting the philosophy that good business can be linked to good health and safety arrangements, and we wholeheartedly endorse this ethos. The ultimate aim of Connacht Safety School is to help your Business integrate good practice at a sensible cost whilst helping you to train your staff and change their workplace for the better . To lessen the risk of prosecution or litigation we can offer you tried and tested methods to regulate and audit your operations. In time we would like to feel that your company will not need to rely on outside consultants as we steer you and your staff to a more regulated approach to safety compliance. There is not an employer in existence that can operate without risk or in a fault free manner, we feel that by risk assessing your work area and identifying hazards that can appear suddenly, you can definitely safeguard your long term well being

As we approach the next century work related illness and disability will become ever more prevalent, to safeguard the viability of your company we earnestly advise you to act now to help you and to your staff enjoy the future together. We will be happy to audit and consider your operations at little or no cost to assess you safety management needs. Risk assessment of your work operations or work stations can be accomplished very quickly. We can create and produce a health and safety policy in partnership with your duty holders in a matter of days. If you as a senior partner, director, or manager have a concern about where your company is with regard