Health, Safety and Wellbeing for Facility Management
Induction, records, incident reporting and follow-through.
What this looks like in facility management
The parts of health, safety and wellbeing that are specific to this sector, rather than general.
Safety at Somebody Else's Premises
Your employee, the client's hazards.
What this coversHide
Safety at Somebody Else's Premises
Your employee, the client's hazards.
What this coversHideFacility management staff work where the employer does not control the environment. The hazards belong to the client's premises and the duty toward the employee remains yours.
- Site-specific risk assessment before deployment
- Client hazard information obtained and communicated to staff
- PPE appropriate to the actual site, not a generic issue
- Working at height, electrical and confined space authorisations
- Chemical handling for cleaning and maintenance work
- Incident reporting route that works at a client site
- Right to stop unsafe work, stated and supported
- Client safety expectations agreed contractually
Stating that staff may stop unsafe work at a client site, and supporting them when they do, is the position that matters most and is hardest to hold commercially.
The general method — what health, safety and wellbeing covers, the questions it answers and what an engagement produces — is the same whatever the sector, and is set out on the workplace health, safety and wellbeing page. What is above is the part that differs for facility management.
Other HR topics for facility management
Where to start
Most engagements begin with a review of how this runs in your business today, then a written process and the sequence to implement it.
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