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Following consideration of a report of the Group Manager for Performance, Governance and Data Security, the Community Policy Development Group has made the following recommendation: that the revised Health and Safety at Work Policy be adopted.

Following consideration of a *report of the Group Manager for Performance, Governance and Data Security, the Community Policy Development Group had made the following recommendation: that the revised Health and Safety at Work Policy be adopted.

The Cabinet Member for the Working Environment and Support Services outlined the contents of the report stating that the revised Health and Safety Policy had been considered by the Health and Safety Committee and the Policy Development Group.  She corrected an error in the report stating that the policy would be reviewed on a three yearly basis and not annually.

Consideration was given to who would investigate any accidents or reports of ill health, it was confirmed that this would be the Health and Safety Officer who would report to the Health and Safety Committee and Leadership Team.

RESOLVED that the recommendation of the Policy Development Group be approved.

(Proposed by Cllr Mrs N Woollatt and seconded by Cllr B A Moore)

Reason for decision: the Council is obliged to have an up-to-date Health and Safety Policy

Note:  *Report previously circulated, copy attached to minutes.

To receive, in accordance with the Health and Safety at Works Act 1974, the Council’s Health and Safety at Work Policy has been reviewed by the Health and Safety Committee.

The Group had before it a *report of the Group Manager for Performance, Governance and Data Security setting out the Corporate Health and Safety at Work Policy.

The officer outlined the contents of the report and explained that the Policy was the Council’s overarching Health and Safety Policy and that additional operational policies sat underneath this.

She explained that the Policy had been agreed by the Health and Safety Committee in October and that although there had been a substantial reduction in the wording the content remained broadly the same as the previous version of the Policy.

It was therefore RECOMMENDED to the Cabinet that:

·         The revised Health and Safety at Work Policy be adopted

(Proposed by Cllr J Downes and seconded by Cllr L Cruwys)

Reason for the Decision: In accordance with the Health and Safety at Works Act 1974 the Council had a duty to review its Health and Safety at Work Policy

Note: *report previously circulated and attached to the minutes