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HEALTH & SAFETY POLICY

QPG Sports Club CIC and QPG Football CIC Health and Safety Policy 2023

 

Queen's Park Gardens, Ilbert Street, London, W10 4QJ

T: 020 8226 0084

E: info@qpgclubs.com

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General Statement of Policy, Duties & Responsibilities

 

1.1   Policy Statement

 

QPG Sports Club and QPG Football recognises and accepts its health and safety duties for providing a safe and healthy working environment (as far as is reasonably practicable) for all its workers (paid or volunteer) and other visitors to its sessions in Queen's Park Gardens, Ilbert Street, London, W10 4QJ under the Health and Safety at Work Act 1974, the Fire Precautions (Workplace) Regulations 1997, the Management of Health and Safety at Work Regulations 1999, other relevant legislation and common law duties of care.

 

The responsibility for enforcing health and safety at QPG Sports Club and QPG Football is shared between Connor Eldrett (Designated Safeguarding Lead) and Greg Warren and Luke Francis. 

The Policy follows the HSE directive and is reviewed every six months.

The next reviewal date is 4th September 2023.

 

Throughout this Statement, terms such as “staff”, “workers”, “employees”, include both paid and volunteer workers.

 

It is the policy of QPG Sports Club and QPG Football to promote the health and safety of the committee members, volunteers, staff and of all visitors to QPG Sports Club and QPG Football’s premises (“the Premises”) and to that intent to:

 

  • Take all reasonably practicable steps to safeguard the health, safety and welfare of all personnel on the premises;

  • Provide adequate working conditions with proper facilities to safeguard the health and safety of personnel and to ensure that any work which is undertaken produces no unnecessary risk to health or safety;

  • Encourage persons on the premises to co-operate with QPG Sports Clubs  and QPG Football in all safety matter, in the identification of hazards which may exist and in the reporting of any condition which may appear dangerous or unsatisfactory;

  • Ensure the provision and maintenance of plant, equipment and systems of work that are safe;

  • Maintain safe arrangements for the use, handling, storage and transport of articles and substances;

  • Provide sufficient information, instruction, training and supervision to enable everyone to avoid hazards and contribute to their own safety and health;

  • Provide specific information, instruction, training and supervision to personnel who have particular health and safety responsibilities (e.g.: a person appointed as a Health and Safety Officer or Representative);

  • Make, as reasonably practicable, safe arrangements for protection against any risk to health and safety of the general public or other persons that may arise for QPG Sports Clubs  and QPG Football’s activities;

  • Make suitable and sufficient assessment of the risks to the health and safety of employees and of persons not in the employment of QPG Sports Clubs and QPG Football arising out of or in connection with QPG Sports Clubs and QPG Football’s activities;

  • Make specific assessment of risks in respect of new or expectant mothers and young people under the age of eighteen;

  • Provide information to other employers of any risks to which those employer’s workers on QPG Sports Club and QPG Football’s premises may be exposed.

 

1.1        Statutory Duty of QPG Clubs and QPG Football

 

QPG Sports Clubs  and QPG Football will comply with its duty to ensure, as far as is reasonably practicable, the health, safety and welfare at work of its workers and of visitors to its premises and, in general, to:

  • Make workplaces safe and without risks to health;

  • Ensure plant and machinery are safe and that safe systems of work are set and followed;

  • Ensure articles and substances are moved, stored and used safely;

  • Give volunteers/ workers the information, instruction, training and supervision necessary for their health and safety.

 

In particular, QPG Sports Clubs and QPG Football will:

 

  • Assess the risks to health and safety of its volunteers/workers;

  • Make arrangements for implementing the health and safety measures identified as necessary by this assessment;

  • Record the significant findings of the risk assessment and the arrangements for health and safety measures;

  • Draw up a health and safety policy statement; including the health and safety organisation and arrangements in force, and bring it to the attention of its workers;

  • Appoint someone competent to assist with health and safety responsibilities;

  • Set up emergency procedures;

  • Provide adequate First Aid facilities;

  • Make sure that the workplace satisfies health, safety and welfare requirements, egg for ventilation, temperature, lighting and for sanitary, washing and rest facilities;

  • Make sure that work equipment is suitable for its intended use as far as health and safety is concerned, and that it is properly maintained and used;

  • Prevent or adequately control exposure to substances that may damage health;

  • Take precautions against danger form flammable or explosive hazards, electrical equipment, noise or radiation;

  • Avoid hazardous manual handling operations and, where they cannot be avoided, reduce the risk of injury;

  • Provide health surveillance as appropriate;

  • Provide free any protective clothing or equipment, where risks are not adequately controlled by other means;

  • Ensure that appropriate safety signs are provided and maintained;

  • Report certain injuries, diseases and dangerous occurrences to the appropriate health and safety enforcing authority.

 

 

 

Date of Policy Review

1st March 2023

 

Date of Next Policy Review

4th September 2023

 

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