Sample Health And Safety Policy
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1SAMPLE Occupational Health and Safety Policy
Commitment
The Anglican Parish of ____________________ recognises its moral and legal responsibilities to provide a safe
and healthy environment for employees, voluntary workers, subcontractors, parishioners and visitors, and will
endeavour to ensure that they do nothing to place themselves or the local community at risk of injury or illness.
Objectives
The Parish will endeavour to:
Provide safe buildings, plant and systems of work
Ensure compliance with legislative requirements and standards
Provide employees, contractors and voluntary workers with information, training and supervision, for
their safety
Provide support that will help employees and voluntary workers to maintain their psychological and
physical health
Responsibilities of the Parish
To provide a safe workplace
To implement Occupational Health and Safety policies and procedures
To actively promote and practice those policies and procedures
To provide the resources required to meet the Parish’s OH&S commitments
Responsibilities for employees and voluntary workers
Follow all OH&S policies and procedures
Report all hazards identified to the OH&S coordinator
Comply with lawful instructions
Avoid behaving in a wilful or reckless manner
Consultation
The Parish is committed to encouraging consultation and cooperation between church administrators,
employees and voluntary workers. It will involve all parties in workplace changes likely to affect their safety,
health and welfare and the safety, health and welfare of subcontractors, parishioners and visitors. The Parish is
also committed to ongoing review of the policy and procedures to seek to ensure their continuing relevance to
changing circumstances
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Senior Minister
Churchwarden
Dated ___ / ___ / ___
Dated ___ / ___ / ___
Please note that this policy covers other occupational health and safety risk areas, which Module1 – People
Movement, Emergency Evacuation and Fire does not address. It is the intention of Parish Services to produce
material for other risk areas such as electrical hazards, manual handling, working at heights etc. over time.
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