Office Management Plan and Procedure
1.
Under the Health and Safety at Work etc Act every employer is required to assess and
adapt the workplace to suite the employees health. In the General Risk Assessments of the
following:
1.2. Office place of work Risk Assessment;
1.3. Workstation Risk Assessment.
1.4. Home office Risk Assessment;
2. As an employer _________ is required by law to protect our employees, and others, from
harm.
3. Under the Management of Health and Safety at Work Regulations 1999, the minimum
you must do is;
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Identify what could cause injury or illness in your business (hazards).
Decide how likely it is that someone could be harmed and how seriously (the risk).
Take action to eliminate the hazard, or if this isn't possible, control the risk.
Assessing risk is just one part of the overall process used to control risks in your
workplace.
4. The steps ______shall take towards office management are straightforward and are
explained below:
5. ______Office Risk Assessments are available on the server.
 Initial Office Risk Assessment must be conducted for all employees.
 Workstation Risk Assessments must be conducted by each employee assessing suitability.
 All ergonomics and workstation design must be adaptable or adjustable for the individual to
ensure the possibility or Work-Related Upper Limb Disorders (WURLDS) are eliminated.
 Only after the initial assessment and actions of findings have been completed to a
satisfactory standard can the workstation be used by the individual.
6.
Copies of assessments should be held at the workplace to which they relate, so the
information that they hold can be easily accessible. Assessments should be kept under
review, in case anything in the working process changes. The Site Manager shall have the
site Office Risk Assessment Files.
7.
We shall monitor our personnel and adjust office arrangements as per personnel changes
or adaptations are required.
8.
Further advice can be found in the following publications:
9. https://www.hse.gov.uk/office/ Office Health and Safety
10. https://www.hse.gov.uk/pubns/indg36.pdf Working with display screen equipment.
11. _______ VDU - Display Screen and Equipment Policy __________
12. https://www.hse.gov.uk/pubns/indg90.pdf Ergonomics and human factors at work.
13. https://www.hse.gov.uk/risk/office.htm Office Risk assessment tool.
Document Owner: Julian McDonald
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Date of Issue: 27/09/2021
Revision Date: 27/09/2022
Document number: COSHH-1001 COSHH
Management Plan
Version: 001