Health and Safety

It is the policy of First Class Partnerships to comply with the terms of the Health and Safety at Work Act 1974 and subsequent legislation, to provide and maintain safe and healthy working conditions, equipment and systems of work for all our employees and to provide such information, training and supervision as they need for this purpose.

First Class Partnerships also recognises and accepts its responsibility to protect the health and safety of all visitors to its workplaces (including contractors, temporary staff and any members of the public who might be affected by our activities.

A copy of the policy statement will be issued to each member of staff. The policy will be kept up to date and the way in which it has operated will be reviewed each year.

The Managing Director has overall responsibility for ensuring the policy is put into practice and in particular will ensure that employees receive sufficient information, training and supervision, that accidents are reported, investigated and recorded in Board Meeting Minutes, and that arrangements are in place to monitor the maintenance of property and equipment. Procedures will also be in place to liaise with other employers sharing FCP premises and for employees based in the offices of other organisations.

Statutory reporting requirements complying with RIDDOR incidents will be made to the London Borough of Islington Environmental Health Department. The competent person, as defined in the management of health and safety at work regulations 1993, is FCP director, Tony Roche.

Procedures in the Health and Safety Policy cover employees, training, office security, staff contact arrangements, and personal awareness of potential risk situations including aggression and harassment.

Provisions to comply with the 1992 Health and Safety (Display Screen Equipment) Regulations, and Control of Substances Hazardous to Health are in place. In this context FCP requires that all workstations used, including those at client premises, comply with the appropriate schedules. FCP employees are also required to avoid manual lifting where at all possible.

The potential for stress at work is a serious issue and is a workplace hazard that must be dealt with like any other. The FCP Health and Safety Policy issued to employees includes the primary causes of stress at work that have been identified by the Health and Safety Executive. Employees are encouraged to participate in a reporting structure.

Download a full copy of our Health and Safety Policy (PDF, 203Kb).