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Duty of Care

Are you compliant with legislation regarding Health and Safety, Human Resources and Occupational Road Risk? Take the CVC 5 minute challege.

Health and Safety:

  • Do you have a written Health and Safety Policy and is it reviewed annually?
  • Have you completed any risk assessments and are they reviewed at regular intervals?
  • Do you record employee's acknowledgement of your Health and Safety Policy and risk assessments?
  • Do staff using computers, monitors or TV screens monitor their time in front of the screen and keep their workstations free of clutter, well lit and free from glare?
  • Are you using the New Accident Book for recording accidents?
  • Do you record your risk assessments, and review them annually?
  • Have you completed and recorded your PAT testing?
  • Has a manual handling assessment been carried out and recorded?
  • Have all your employees received Health and Safety training?
  • Have you carried out and recorded your COSHH risk assessment/s?
  • Have you completed and recorded a Fire Risk Assessment?

Human Resources:

  • Have you issued all employees with a written statement of their Terms and Conditions of Employment?
  • Do you issue all employees with written statement of earnings?
  • Do you have an employee handbook detailing the companies' policies and procedures e.g., sickness procedure, holiday entitlement, grievance procedure, Health and Safety policy etc.?
  • Are you aware of the new Working Time regulations?
  • Are you aware of the recent changes to Legislation for part-time workers holiday entitlement?
  • Are you aware of the Legislation covering Sexual Discrimination/Race Discrimination/Age/Disability?
  • Have you read the Green Paper: Work and Parents, competitiveness and choice?
  • Are you aware and have you actioned the new Smoking Legislation?
  • Are you aware of what you can and cannot place in an advert seeking a new Employee?
  • Do you have Employers Liability insurance in place?

Occupational Road Risk:

  • How many employees use company owned/leased vehicles?
  • How many employees use their own vehicles for work business?
  • Any contractors, agency or temp staff use any vehicles for company business?
  • Any vans/light industrial vehicles used?
  • Any drivers aged 17-24?
  • Have you carried out an organisational risk assessment?
  • Do you know when all vehicles being used for company business drivers were last serviced and when the next service is due (regardless of vehicle ownership?
  • Do you carry out driver audits or assessments, and do you have information relating to licences, endorsements?
  • Do you have a specific 'company driver's policy' and 'driver's handbook'? (Management of Health and Safety at Work - need specific guidance)
  • Do you have a system in place of regular checks to monitor employees driving hours so you can illustrate they do not exceed the working time regulations.

If most of your answers have been 'YES' then well done and congratulations on being ahead of the game.

If most of your answers have been 'NO' then call CVC Direct now on 028 9083 5222 to discuss how we can help protect you as an employer from prosecution as a result of an accident.