Fitness at Working Environment

Fitness workplace responsibilities

Maintaining the place of work and working environment under your control in a safe condition

• Ensuring the safe use, handling, storage and transport of equipment & substances
• Providing and maintaining “systems of work” (eg. policies and procedures) to ensure workplace safety
• Providing the information, instruction, training and supervision necessary to ensure the health and safety of employees
• Providing adequate facilities for the welfare of employees
• Ensuring that risk management procedures are implemented to identify, assess, control and monitor workplace hazards
• Ensuring that appropriate employee consultation arrangements are in place and implemented
• Ensuring that injuries are reported within prescribed timeframes and that a system exists to facilitate the return to work for injured employees.

Although workplace health and safety legislation focuses on staff safety, it also requires employers to ensure the safety of any visitors to the workplace.

Many of the measures required to protect employees will also apply to your clients. By implementing an effective workplace health and safety programme you can minimise the risk of injury to both staff and clients and reduce the likelihood of related fines and public liability claims.