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Health & Safety Policy Statement
NOMAD Sea Kayaking is committed to high standards of health & safety and common sense. It is our policy, as a company, to maintain high standards at all times and to encourage our staff to contribute to their own welfare and that of their colleagues. Maintaining a safe and healthy working environment places demands on everyone in the company but the resultant benefits are worth every bit of the effort.
Ensuring safety awareness, positive attitudes and continuous improvement in safety performance requires the commitment and active involvement of the Directors, employees and freelance staff of NOMAD Sea Kayaking.
Our objectives are, so far as is reasonable practicable, to avoid accidents, injuries, damage to property and to maintain strong relationships with the local community in which we operate. Conservation of the environment in which we operate is the central policy of our business and this ethos runs throughout everything we do.
The company will, in the conduct of its activities, and so far as is reasonably practicable:
· Protect the health & safety of its employees, freelance staff and others that may be affected by its activities.
· Limit adverse effects on the physical environment in which those activities are carried out.
NOMAD Sea Kayaking recognises that the talents and energies of it’s employees and freelance staff are amongst its greatest assets and it has a responsibility to provide for their welfare. So far as is reasonably practical, NOMAD Sea Kayaking will:
· Provide & maintain safe working environments that do not constitute risks to health and welfare.
· Formulate standards that comply with relevant statutory requirements in respect of health,
safety and the environment, as they affect employees, freelance staff, customers and the public.
· Safeguard employees, and others, from foreseeable hazards with regard to health, safety or the
environment in current processes and working systems.
· Train employees to be aware of their own responsibilities in respect of health, safety &
environmental matters, and to ensure they participate in the prevention of accidents and
industrial disease. Also keep up a high level of activity training and induction with customers.
· Without detracting from the contactor’s own legal responsibility,NOMAD Sea Kayaking will ensure
that contractors are informed of relevant standards, have been trained in safety procedures, and
are monitored for compliance.
· Establish procedures for monitoring compliance with the safety standards and co-operate with
authorities and technical organisations, and the rules and regulations of the British Canoe Union
to ensure policies are kept up to date.
· Establish appropriate systems for the continual improvement of health and safety across the
organisation, including arrangements for corrective & preventative actions where indicated.
· Because of the nature of the NOMAD Sea Kayaking activities and to ensure customers maximum
enjoyment the company respectfully advises customers to advise the company before taking part,
of any illnesses (Refer to Terms & Conditions). This may not prevent customers from taking part
but ensures their maximum safety and valued participation.
· The company will ensure that all customers are advised before every trip/tour/course of the
correct protective equipment and customers will have access to buoyancy aids and paddling
clothes provided by NOMAD Sea Kayaking.
· The company will ensure that all Guides & Instructors carry out a full safety brief prior to every
trip, tour/course.
· NOMAD Sea Kayaking will ensure a policy of continuous improvement through training and
coaching of all its employees and freelance staff takes place on a ‘real time’, ongoing basis.
The responsibility for establishing and maintaining policies on health and safety matters lies with the Directors of NOMAD Sea Kayaking.
All employees and freelance staff have a personal responsibility for observing safety policies, rules and procedures. They are encouraged to develop an interest and enthusiasm in health and safety issues relevant to our industry and our business.
Kurt Finch 5th April 2005
Director
On behalf of
NOMAD Ventures Limited
T/A NOMAD Sea Kayaking
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