Operations
Health and safety policy
Formal definition
Health and safety policy is a policy in operations focused on ensuring employment compliance, staff wellbeing, and professional workplace standards across the charity.
What this actually means for you
Use Health and safety policy to guide live decisions: align policies with statutory rules, conduct regular training and risk reviews, and keep records up to date, with ownership and reporting agreed before delivery changes and risk reviews.
Example: In a live quarterly cycle, Health and safety policy is applied like this: onboarding managers review the training matrix, confirm required pension or health setup, and log policy sign-off. The team then records the decision trail in policy packs, approval logs, and team guidance.
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