People Risk takes on new importance
Ensuring you are doing the right thing: Health and safety – a different world as we exit COVID-19.
It is over 100 years since the world has experienced a global pandemic close to COVID-19. Over the coming weeks and months, we will see businesses return to “normality”. Inevitably the definition of normal will change and with change will come a new set of risks were not previously contemplated. Undoubtedly, we will rise to these challenges as we have done in the past, however we are duty bound to manage health and safety in compliance with the prevailing legislation.
As a reminder, the guiding principle of the Health and Safety Act 2015 (HSWA) is that workers and others need to be given the highest level of protection from workplace health and safety risks, as is reasonable. There is a requirement to proactively identify and manage risk. Businesses have the primary responsibility for health and safety of their workers. Company directors and others must carry out due diligence to make sure the business understands this, and that is meeting its health and safety responsibilities including the potential for work related health conditions- physical and psychological acute or long-term illnesses.
The aftermath of COVID-19 will present situations we have not experienced or had to deal with previously. Download the article to consider some of the questions raised to ensure you are doing all that you can to ‘do the right thing’, post COVID-19.