Who is responsible
The directors of Graftd Recruitment LTD oversee our health and safety arrangements. GRAFTD will obtain and communicate relevant assignment information and check suitability. Clients must manage the premises and work they control, including appropriate risk assessments, safe equipment, supervision, induction and emergency arrangements. These responsibilities must be agreed before work starts; an agreement cannot remove anyone’s legal duties.
Before we place a worker
We will establish the tasks, location, foreseeable risks, required competence and training, protective equipment, supervision and reporting contacts. We will consider manual handling, vehicles, machinery, work at height, hazardous substances, outdoor conditions, lone working, fatigue and unfamiliar environments where relevant.
We will consider additional safeguards for inexperienced workers and any other individual needs. Work must not start without the information, training, supervision and controls needed to make it safe.
Training, equipment and welfare
Workers must receive instructions they understand and know who to ask for help. No one should operate machinery, drive equipment or perform specialist tasks without the necessary training and authorisation. Required protective equipment must be provided without charge, be suitable and be accompanied by instructions.
Clients must provide appropriate welfare facilities, drinking water, breaks and emergency information. GRAFTD will discuss relevant adjustments and concerns with the worker and client, sharing personal information only where appropriate.
What workers should do
Follow safe instructions, use equipment properly, take reasonable care of yourself and others, and report hazards promptly. Tell GRAFTD if the actual work differs from the brief. Do not continue an unfamiliar or unsafe task just because someone is in a hurry. Stop the task, move to safety where possible and contact the supervisor and GRAFTD.
Accidents and unsafe assignments
Get emergency help or first aid first. Report injuries, near misses and dangerous conditions to the site supervisor and GRAFTD as soon as it is safe. GRAFTD will cooperate with the client to investigate, identify who must make any statutory report and agree corrective measures. Workers must not be sent back into an unresolved serious risk.
We will review relevant risk information when tasks or conditions change and use incident findings to improve future assignments. A worker will not be penalised by GRAFTD for raising an honestly held safety concern.
The directors are responsible for implementing this policy, briefing the people who need it and reviewing concerns and corrective actions. We will review it at least annually and sooner if the law, our work or an incident requires it. This policy does not replace assignment terms or limit statutory rights.
Further guidance: HSE guidance for staffing agencies and clients.