Health & Safety
As an employer offering work experience you should:
- Have a health and safety policy (a written policy statement where there are 5 or more employees).
- Have assessed risks and put in place control measures to prevent or reduce risks. Risk assessments have been carried out and significant risks identified. Significant risks have been recorded (optional where less than 5 employees).
- Have made adequate arrangements for dealing with accidents and incidents including the provision of first-aid
- Provide employees with effective supervision, training, information and instruction
- Provide and maintains suitable and appropriate equipment and machinery which is safe and without risks to health
- Have made arrangements for the provision and use of necessary personal protective equipment and clothing (PPE/C)
- Have insurance
- Have made arrangements for fire and other foreseeable emergencies
- Provide a safe and healthy working environment
- Manage health and safety
- Manage learners/young person’s health, safety and welfare
-The employer has assessed the risks to any learner/young person taking account of his/her age (inexperience, immaturity etc.) and any other special needs or circumstances including any disability and/or medical/health condition.
-The employer has put in place control measures for learners/young persons and informed the learner and his/her supervisor.
-The employer has identified any necessary prohibitions and restrictions that apply to any learner/young person.
-The employer provides competent supervision for any learner/young person and has a designated person to take overall responsibility for any learner/young person.
-The employer provides an induction and ongoing information, instruction and training to any learner/young person reflecting the result of the risk assessment; environment, tasks and the learner/young person’s age, experience and any special needs.
-The employer provides free of charge any necessary (determined from the risk assessment) personal protective equipment and clothing to the learner and ensures its proper and effective use.
