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Departmental Responsibility
A Guide for Managers of Departments in fulfilling their responsibilities within the Health and Safety Policy Document.
Introduction
This paper is written as a guide to establishing a management system within departments for discharging the responsibilities which fall to departmental heads. It concentrates on management structure and an introduction to the risk assessment process. This paper is not a substitute for the Health and Safety Policy Document where the full requirements of the Canterbury Christ Church University Policy are described. The policy document describes the goals to be achieved while this paper describes a means of achieving those goals. Further guidance papers will be provided to assist with the management of health and safety.
Management Structure
It is very important that departmental managers establish a management structure within their departments to ensure a fully effective health and safety system. Each department should have a Health and Safety Representative. The Departmental Head is responsible for appointing appropriate people to these positions. The University will arrange for training to be given to allow those appointed to discharge their duties effectively. The creation of departmental health and safety management structures is the first priority for departmental managers. Without such assistance the departmental managers would find that the duties and responsibilities placed upon them are overly demanding. It is hoped that the departmental manager, who will always hold the responsibility for the department, will perform a team leaders role with regard to health and safety, by setting targets, allocating resources (principally time) and disseminating information produced both within the department and published centrally. The three other stated positions will perform administrative assistance roles.
The structure outlined above may already exist within departments and only a degree of "fine tuning" will be required to establish the system described and create uniformity throughout the University.
Departmental Health and Safety Representatives
The role of the Health and Safety Representatives in departments is fundamental to the effective operation of the policy. The University is committed to providing central support and training for Departmental Health and Safety Representatives. The Departmental Head, and the Departmental Health and Safety Representative will be required to establish and maintain all departmental records concerning health and safety, identify risk assessment needs (including COSHH and Manual Handling), carry out and update those assessments and supply to all members of the department information necessary for the safe execution of their job.
| Record of departmental Health and Safety personnel | |
| Index of Risk Assessment |
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