23rd February 2007, 04:03 PM
VoR,
We have found that legislative and guidance changes have been so frequent that our own H&S manual was out of date really quickly. There was also a sense that many units, ours included, were reinventing wheels all over the shop. There was a decision to have the SCAUM manual as our standard because Hascom are very good at keeping us up to date with SCAUM re-writes and monthly updates. Deficiencies in the SCAUM manual are usually covered by generic risk assessments and exceptional circumstances presenting risk are dealt with by site-specific assessments.
You wrote: 'Anyway the manual is not the point, it is how you apply health and safety on a day to day basis that counts.'
Actually, it is the point of this and related threads. There is an industry standard that professes to be for all site staff, but they don't have access.
Do the consultants you pay provide monthly updates?
We have found that legislative and guidance changes have been so frequent that our own H&S manual was out of date really quickly. There was also a sense that many units, ours included, were reinventing wheels all over the shop. There was a decision to have the SCAUM manual as our standard because Hascom are very good at keeping us up to date with SCAUM re-writes and monthly updates. Deficiencies in the SCAUM manual are usually covered by generic risk assessments and exceptional circumstances presenting risk are dealt with by site-specific assessments.
You wrote: 'Anyway the manual is not the point, it is how you apply health and safety on a day to day basis that counts.'
Actually, it is the point of this and related threads. There is an industry standard that professes to be for all site staff, but they don't have access.
Do the consultants you pay provide monthly updates?