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Policy – Your policy should contain specific objectives to be achieved as well as the requirements you are looking to fulfil. This provides your organisation with clear and measurable aims and intents. Positive outcomes are excellent collateral for CSR reports.


Responsibilities – What is expected of people should be defined from senior management down and documented. Ideally it should be included in job or role descriptions. “I didn’t know it was my job, I thought it was…” never goes well in court, unless it was of course. Also consider for example, when was


the last time H&S featured and was a minuted part of a senior management/board/directors meeting? This type of information is easily audited and can go a long way to establishing your H&S culture.


Risk Assessment – These are the start not the end of the process. A competent individual must carry them out, as they will dictate what controls you put in place. All recommendations should be considered and actioned as appropriate.


Records – Keep your records organised and up to date. Not knowing where your information is when needed sends out a poor message.


Turn your records into knowledge.


Millions of pieces of data are collected everyday in the UK on health and safety. Unless you actively turn it into information through comparison or trend analysis, data is all it will ever be. Managing the information then provides knowledge on your performance against your policy objectives and your relative compliance status.


Review – A review should look at what you’ve learnt, not what you’ve done. It should consider the overall performance of your management and identify if the policy and its objectives remain relevant or require amending.


All’s well that ends well Much in business is expectation driven yet often it can be dictated by the unexpected or unforeseen; ask the banking sector or oil industry. Good systems of management are designed to assess and then eliminate or mitigate and control these variables. To what extent the organisation accepts the affects these variables have, is risk appetite, and how they manage them against regulatory or their own standards, is compliance. Each will be specific to the individual organisation. For health and safety it can be seen as the worst of both worlds, where


A credible approach to green products T


hese days it’s not enough to just make claims about environmental credentials. With so many products entering the market place and companies claiming to be ‘green’,


consumers now believe these claims should be at the heart of business activities and backed up with certification through independent bodies, auditors and assessors. Celebrating 15 years trading, Futures


Supplies is committed to sustainability. It recognised early on Ecover’s experience and credentials in the green arena. Collaboration between the companies has seen the delivery of truly ecological products by a company which has a formalised credible approach. Customers are no longer merely


satisfied that the product ticks the ‘green’ box. More and more companies want solid evidence that the distributor measures up too. Once you have found a credible green product then you have to ask is the delivery of that product from a truly sustainable company? Futures Supplies says it ticks all the


data. With its first TV ads now being aired,


(they can be previewed at www.futures- supplies.co.uk/videos.asp) Ecover is the world’s leading manufacture of ecological cleaning products. Its credentials are endorsed by certification to BS EN ISO14001 and Ecover has over 25 years experience in ecological cleaning using innovative pioneering formulas that work to tackle the toughest cleaning problems. Ecover takes ecological, economic and social aspects into account from the origin of the raw materials to the biodegradation - a cradle to the grave approach. Its principles of sustainability are an integral party of the company’s mission, vision and strategy. Futures Supplies, in collaboration with


boxes, certified to BS EN


ISO14001 and Carbon Neutral Status accredited, the company measures and


reduces the CO2 emissions associated with its business. Its carbon footprint is monitored against pre-defined key performance indicators through the collection and independent verification of


Ecover, is currently offering product trial packs to 60 companies who are interested in sustainability.


For more information contact Mandie Kemp at Futures Supplies & Support Services Ltd on: Tel: 020 8689 2072 Web: www.futures-supplies.co.uk


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Much in business is expectation driven yet often it can be dictated by the unexpected or unforeseen; ask the banking sector or oil industry.


expectation is morally the highest achievable standards and regulation the lowest common denominator. It requires thought, time and resources; for those that invest it will often pay dividends, for those that don’t it could literally cost them.


Elementus is an independent health, safety and environmental consultancy. Tel: 0844 800 7705 or Email: info@elementus.com Web: www.elementus.com


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