Contents
- Purpose
- Objectives
- Scope
- Potential Health and Safety Risks
- Our Responsibilities
- Promoting Health and Safety and Our Policy
- Key Contact and Individual Responsibilities
- Training
- Reporting a Concern
- Other relevant/associated documents and policies
- Purpose
This policy sets out ASA Training Ltd.’s Health and Safety Policy, who this applies to and the measures in place to ensure learners and team members are aware of Health and Safety risks and how to remain safe.
All ASA Training Ltd team members have a responsibility to safeguard its learners and have an important role in identifying any Health and Safety concerns that may arise during their time in training with us.
This policy has been designed to ensure all team members and learners are aware of how to identify a Health and Safety concern, and how to report these, it is also in place to reduce risk to its team members and learners.
- Objectives
To ensure team members and learners of ASA Training Ltd are aware of and understand Health and Safety.
To ensure all parties are aware of their responsibilities regarding Health and Safety and raising/reporting a concern.
To ensure all parties are able to identify a Health and Safety concern.
- Scope
This policy applies to safeguarding all our learners and team members.
- Potential Health and Safety Risks
Slips, Trips and Falls
Fire
Hazardous Substances
Electrical Dangers
Noise Hazards
Lack of PPE
- Our Responsibilities
As an employer and a training provider we carry a responsibility to ensure that all our team members, learners, children, young people and adults at risk are protected from harm, informed and educated about any potential risk to their wellbeing and welfare, they understand how to seek help and who to contact and who they can talk to.
We must ensure concerns are dealt with in a timely manner and in an appropriate manner.
We must ensure all our team members have a good knowledge and understanding of what a potential Health and Safety concern is and how to identify them, provide support and guidance and how to escalate a concern.
We must also ensure we are educating our learners to identify potential Health and Safety concerns they may be at risk of.
We must ensure our learners and team members feel safe in the workplace and online.
We must ensure learners and team members have confidence in us to address concerns raised.
We must ensure we have suitable arrangements in place for raising a concern.
- Promoting Health and Safety and Our Policy
It is the policy of ASA Training ltd to comply with the terms of the Health and Safety at Work Act 1794 and subsequent legislation and to provide and maintain a healthy and safe working environment for it team members and learners.
ASA Training Ltd are committed to ensuring that its training activities and the actions of its team members and learners, whilst maintaining occupational realism, do not hazard the health, safety and welfare at work of other colleagues, learners or any other persons who may be affected as is reasonable practical.
As an employer we promote our Health and Safety policy to all ASA Training Ltd team members, ensuring that regular training is undertaken to be able to understand and identify risks, the steps to take when raising a concern and who to contact, Health and Safety s monitored regularly in the workplace and team members undertake training to ensure regular development and knowledge is maintained. All team members are issued with a copy of this policy to refer to and use when dealing with a concern.
As a training provider we embed safeguarding subjects and training modules into our curriculums, raising awareness to our learners of Safeguarding risks and providing a better understanding of why these are relevant to them, this includes Health and Safety in the Workplace. Within these modules is clear guidance on who they should contact if they have a concern and a link to our Safeguarding Policy. This training enables learners to be further educated in Health and Safety areas and also allows them to be educated to identify the signs themselves in their everyday work settings and personal lives, which equips them with the skills and understanding of safeguarding other people. Welfare of our learners is monitored at each appointment through the delivery team, and also discussed at regular Progress Reviews with the Employer as well. A copy of our Health and Safety Policy, plus other relevant associated policies are issued to all learners and are stored on each learners e-portfolio system, for them to access at any time.
- Key Contact and Individual Responsibilities
Work Place Health & Safety designated officer :
John Turner
01604 871340
07494 984858
Mental Health First Aider and Learner Welfare designated officer:
Kirsty Gibbs & Claire Lamb
01604 871340
Other Safeguarding Designated Officers:
DSL
Kirsty Gibbs
01604 871340
DDSL
Claire Lamb
07494 984683
- Training
ASA Training Ltd will provide employees with the training necessary to carry out their tasks safely. However, if an employee is unsure how to perform a tasks or feels it would be dangerous to perform a specific job, then it is the employees duty to report this to their line manager and/or health and safety officer.
An effective Health and Safety Programme requires continuous communication between workers at all levels, it is therefore every team members responsibility to report any situation immediately, which could jeopardise the well-being of themselves or any other person.
ASA Training Ltd provide all learners with basic training and understanding of Health and Safety in the workplace. As a training provider we also ensure learners have had a robust induction within their workplace and their employer has carried out mandatory Health and Safety requirements to ensure learners are safe in the work setting.
We risk assess each learners workplace, check that all workplaces have a Covid-19 risk assessment in place and we carry out a pre attendance check to ensure minimum risk to any team members when visiting, team members must familiarise themselves with each workplace procedure and requirements.
- Reporting a Concern
Should any member of ASA Training Ltd at any time feel at risk or observe a Health and Safety concern in the workplace they must report this to the designated Health and Safety officer and/or their line manager.
Learners can use the Safeguarding reporting process if they wish to report a concern to us regarding their work setting.
ASA team members can use the Safeguarding process to report a concern regarding learner welfare in their work setting.
Each learner provides an emergency contact at induction, so we can inform this person of any accident a learner may have had, whilst with a member of ASA training Ltd.
- Other relevant/associated documents and policies
Safeguarding Policy
Company Values and Mission Statement
Prevent Policy
Social Media, Online Safety and Cyberbullying policies
Equality and Diversity Policy
Learner Wellbeing Policy
