Policies, Compliance and Governance for Manufacturing
Policies a manager can apply, and obligations with owners and dates.
What this looks like in manufacturing
The parts of policies, compliance and governance that are specific to this sector, rather than general.
Plant Governance and Registers
Where the register is the evidence.
What this coversHide
Plant Governance and Registers
Where the register is the evidence.
What this coversHideManufacturing carries the most register-heavy compliance environment of any sector, and the obligations attach to the establishment rather than to the company.
- Establishment-wise register of applicable obligations
- Statutory registers maintained and current
- Contract labour arrangements documented and governed
- Safety policies and records maintained per plant
- Working hours, overtime and shift policies
- Named owner per register and per return, with dates
- Internal audit of records on a stated cycle
- Acknowledgement records maintained per employee
Naming an owner per register, and having someone other than that person verify completion, is the control that most reliably prevents the quiet lapse.
The general method — what policies, compliance and governance covers, the questions it answers and what an engagement produces — is the same whatever the sector, and is set out on the hr policies and governance page. What is above is the part that differs for manufacturing.
Other HR topics for manufacturing
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.