• Introduction
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• Review of decision
  • Stage 1 - Compliance with legislation
  • Stage 2 - Audit of management systems
• Determining level of achievement
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Element 2 - Allocation of responsibility and accountability

Scope

To establish that managers have been delegated specific responsibilities in the area of health and safety as part of their management function. This includes the method and extent of accountability to executive management for the discharge of these responsibilities.

The organisation is required to provide evidence that:

• managers have been delegated specific responsibilities in the area of health and safety as part of their management function;
• this delegation is supported by written documentation;
• where such delegation has been made, managers concerned have adequate understanding of method and extent of accountability to executive management;
• assessment of managers ability to carry out these delegated responsibilities is performance based and integrated with the overall measures of performance;
• level of understanding and method/extent of accountability to executive management for discharge of these responsibilities is adequate;
• whether the demonstration of a manager's ability to carry out these responsibilities is performance based and integrated with other measures of performance, eg. production, lost time, damage minimisation;
• whether evidence exists of regular reporting, preferable in written form and to a particular format;
• whether key performance indicators have been established for health and safety performance in each area of responsibility; and
• whether a Workplace Health and Safety Officer has been appointed, trained and resourced as required by legislation.