Issue - meetings

Report number ENV702 of the Cabinet Member for Environment.    (Enclosure)

Decision

Cabinet approves and fully endorses its commitment to the Council’s Health and Safety General Policy Statement (attached as Appendix 1 to report number ENV702)

Considerations/Reasons for Decision

1. Report number ENV702 of the Cabinet Member for Environment and the Health and Safety General Policy Statement attached as Appendix 1 to the report and the Health and Safety Policy Handbook (Appendix 2 to the report)
2. Minimum requirements set out in the Health and Safety at Work Act 1974 against which the Council has to deliver
3. The Management of health and Safety at Work Regulations 1999
4. Delivery of the Council’s Corporate Strategy is underpinned by good health and safety arrangements

Other options considered and assessed

The requirements of the Health and Safety at Work Act 1974 underpin the requirement to have in place appropriate policies. No other options have therefore been considered.

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Cabinet considered report number ENV702, which was presented by the Cabinet Member for Environment. He stated that health and safety was important across the organisation and should be embedded as a core part of the Council’s activities. To this end the Cabinet Member with responsibility for Human Resources stated that he would ensure that the importance of health and safety would be reiterated to all managers. Cabinet Members recognised that health and safety was the responsibility of everyone in the organisation and that it should not be about stopping people doing things, but ensuring everything that the organisation did was safe and subject to appropriate assessments.

Cabinet Members agreed the recommendations in the report.