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What is an Occupational Health and Safety Policy, or OHS Policy and who should use them?
An OHS Policy is simply a method of stating how you, your employees, contractors and vistitors are expected to behave when they are on Company property or performing Company related activities. As an employer or responsible contractor, you are required by law to provide a 'safe system of work'. This means you need a method of communicating, duplicating and implementing a safe way of working. The basis for this process begins with your Occupational Health and Safety Policies.
Most OHS policies have a similar format, they generally include:
- Aim - The aim outlines what the policy intends to achieve
- Policy - This is the actual body of the working document. It is here that specifics of what needs to be done and how the company will achieve it's aim.
Common policies that are found across most industries include:
- Accident Investigation and Reporting
- Aggression at Work
- Armed Hold-Up Procedures
- Asbestos
- Breach of Health and Safety Requirements
- Bricklaying or Brick layers
- Construciton OHS Policies
- Compressed Air
- Confined Spaces
- Contractor Safety
- Conveyors and Power Operated Machinery
- Cultural Diversity
- Danger and Out of Service Procedures
- Drug and Alcohol OHS Policies
- Electrical equipment
- Emergency Response (Fire, Bomb and Natural Disaster)
- Employee Assistance
- Employee Safety Induction Information
- Ergonomics
- Fatigue Mangement
- Footwear
- Forklift Safety
- Gas Cylinder Safety Procedures
- Hazardous Substances
- Hazardous Substances Procedures
- Heavy Vehicle
- Height Work
- Hot Work Permit Procedures
- Hot Work
- Housekeeping
- How to Write a Standard Operating Procedure (SOP)
- Hygiene
- Inclement Weather
- Infection Control
- Infectious Waste
- Ladders/Access to Heights Procedures
- Manual Handling
- Noise
- Permit to Dig Minor Excavation Procedures
- Permit to Work Contractors
- Personal Protective Equipment Policy
- Plant Policy
- Purchasing Policy
- Recalling Products Policy
- Recalling Products Procedures
- Rehabilitation Policy
- Rehabilitation Procedural Guide
- Remote or Isolated Work Policy
- Smoke Free Workplace
- Sun Protection
- Truck Driving Fatigue
- Uncontrolled Workplace Procedures
- Vehicle Procedures
- Visitor and General Public Procedures and Information
- Welding, Cutting and Associated Processes
- Workplace Harassment Policy
- Workplace Inspection Information and Checklist
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