Occupational Health & Safety Policy Statement
Our Vision:
Ringley believes that ensuring the health and safety of staff, visitors, service users and all relevant persons is essential to our success: to us this means managing fire safety, workplace safety, safety whilst carrying out inspections or works and awareness of risk identification and planning to mitigate risk. Our vision is to revolutionise the property management industry through innovation of our technology and investment in our people, creating positive change, redefining quality and delivering services and safe places where people aspire to live. All employees must play their part in the creation of places to work and live.
We aim to achieve this by:
- Health and safety being a core value of our business
- Improving our standards and our performance against them
- Our leaders at all levels, taking action by observing, engaging and improving what we do
- Engaging our stakeholders in achieving common vision and objectives
- Developing behaviours that are aligned with our core values, continually improving ourselves to achieve healthy and safe workplaces
We are committed to:
- Preventing accidents and work-related ill health
- Advising Clients of what they need to comply with
- Providing a safe and healthy working and learning environment including adequate welfare facilities and consulting with employees and reps as required
- Assessing, controlling, monitoring and reviewing the risks that arise from our work activities
- Ensuring safe working methods and providing safe working equipment.
- Providing effective information, instruction, and training.
- Setting targets and objectives to develop a culture of continuous improvement.
- Advising Clients what resources they need to address health and safety issues, and not breaking the law by spending Client funds on developer issues
To achieve this, we will:
- Demonstrate through leadership from the top, down through the organisation
- Provide a structure and organisation to support the implementation of this policy. Policy is to be made readily available
- Monitor our health and safety performance, against targets, regular audit and review
- Set objectives and targets which will continually improve the health & safety arrangements
- Provide adequate resource, information, instruction and training to our staff
- Ensure health and safety risks are considered at management level, and reasonably practicable solutions are implemented for remedial actions identified
- Empower our employees to act in a safe manner and to care for their health and safety
- Provide access to competent health and safety advice and support and ensure compliance with legislation and other requirements
- Have arrangements for consultation with and engagement of our employees and stakeholders on matters affecting their occupational health and safety
- Have arrangements in place to manage emergency events and staff welfare
- Recognise and consider potential implications of climate change-related events.
We expect our employees to:
- Lead by example, and to implement this policy. Be responsible for themselves and others who may be affected by our activities
- Eliminate, reduce or control risks so far as reasonably practicable
- Influence other stakeholders to align with our vision and policy
- Take care of their health, safety and wellbeing. Share knowledge, information, learning and achievements.
Our commitment:
Our aim is to provide healthy and safe places to work and to consider safety in work areas at buildings our Clients and their residents live in thereby to prevent injury. We aim to inspire our employees and stakeholders to continually raise the bar and have a commitment to fulfil legal requirements, eliminate hazards, reduce risks, consultation & participation of workers/stakeholders and seeking continual improvement.
Signature
Mary-Anne Bowring Group Managing Director
15th January 2025
