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Revised Corporate Health and Safety Policy and Health and Safety Update

Meeting: 20/10/2021 - Cabinet (Item 7)

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[To approve an updated Corporate Health and Safety Policy and receive an update on the management of health and safety across the Council]

Additional documents:

Decision:

1.      That the adoption and implementation of the revised Corporate Health and Safety Policy be approved.

 

2.      That the progress with regard to managing health and safety in the organisation be noted.

 

Minutes:

Councillor Stephen Simkins asked Cabinet to approve the adoption of a revised Corporate Health and Safety Policy. It identified the key elements of the Council’s health and safety management system and detailed the commitment the Council had for maintaining and improving the health, safety and welfare of its staff and others, including its customers, service users and residents who may be affected by the Council’s activities.

 

Councillor Ian Brookfield added that the updated policy was nevermore needed than it is now, particularly in these current times.  He extended his thanks to a group of Council employees who made sure areas are safe to work, informed people how to perform certain actions going through Covid, and without whom council services would not have been able to have continued over the last 18 months. The Council’s Health and Safety team would also be looking at what is available for elected councillors to keep them safe and enable them to represent without fear.

 

Cabinet also extended its deepest sympathies to the family and friends of the late Sir David Amess MP who was killed at his constituency surgery.

 

Resolved:

1.    That the adoption and implementation of the revised Corporate Health and Safety Policy be approved.

 

2.    That the progress with regard to managing health and safety in the organisation be noted.