Business Challenges | Health & Safety

Health & Safety

How NETconsent helps

How are you ensuring all staff are sufficiently trained and competent in their health and safety responsibilities? How well do you know what is happening on the ground? How confident are you that your employees are consulted properly on health and safety matters?

  • NETconsent electronic acceptance of policies at logon is a practical, reliable and cost-effective method of ensuring that all users read and accept health and safety policies.
  • NETconsent records information about when a user accepted or declined a policy, so there is no ambiguity over policy version control.
  • NETconsent shows how well someone has understood each policy by testing understanding, thereby identifying knowledge gaps and enabling risk mitigation.
  • Use NETconsent Assessor to manage workstation assessments and other health and safety surveys.
  • NETconsent reports shows who has yet to sign up to policies without the administrative burden associated with more traditional record keeping.
  • NETconsent provides real-time management reports showing overall levels of compliance crucial to improving health and safety.

Health & Safety Challenges

You can't be everywhere all of the time. You have to trust your employees to act in accordance with your policies and best practice procedures. However establishing a workplace culture which promotes health and safety is a major challenge for organisations of all sizes.

“ More than 200 people

are killed at work in

the United Kingdom

each year. ”

 

Reducing accidents and the threat of legal action saves considerable management time and expense. It may also serve to protect corporate reputation. Introducing a policy management system helps ensure health and safety risks are recognised and dealt with sensibly, responsibly and proportionately.

Health & Safety Requirements

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Ensuring your organisation meets Health and Safety legislation is critical. All organisations with more than 5 employees are required to have a health and safety policy designed to maintain safe and healthy working environment. The board has both collective and individual responsibility for health and safety. Furthermore directors can be held personally liable for a failure in their duties.
Failure to comply with Health and Safety requirements can result in unlimited fines, imprisonment and disqualification for directors.

Health & Safety Legislation & Standards

NETconsent automated policy management software helps to raise awareness of and measure understanding of policies and procedures relating to the following health and safety legislation and regulatory standards.

  • Health and Safety at Work etc Act 1974
  • Acts owned and enforced by HSE
  • Statutory instruments (Regulations) owned and enforced by HSE/Local Authorities


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“ Working with the Ministry of Defence places strict requirements on Landmarc; a fully auditable policy management process enables us to demonstrate our commitment to compliance. NETconsent Policy Management software provides an effective solution for tracking and recording that users have read and accepted company policies. ”

Adrian Patterson
IT Support Manager
Landmarc Support Services Limited