Safety, Health and Welfare
There are many reasons for promoting safety, including financial, legal and social reasons. Cork County Council promotes safety for humanitarian reasons. The Council is committed to ensuring the safety, health and welfare of all staff. It is our intention and policy to ensure that all staff finish work each day in the same state of health as when they come to work in the morning.
Cork County Council is committed to implementing the Safety, Health and Welfare at Work Act, 1989, and all other relevant regulations, standards and codes of practice. The Council will provide the necessary resources to accomplish this. It will engage in consultation with all staff with a view to continually reviewing, updating and improving our safety procedures.
Line management is ultimately responsible for safety in each County Council department. The Safety Officer acts as advisor to inform and communicate all the necessary and relevant legislative requirements.
Safety is everybody's responsibility. Therefore, the only acceptable safety policy is one in which everybody takes responsibility for their actions.
The key functions of the Safety, Health and Welfare department are as follows:
- To ensure the safety, health and welfare at work of all County Council employees.
- To ensure that Cork County Council is in compliance with all workplace safety, health and welfare legislation.
- To provide advice and information to all County Council staff members on all matters relating to safety, health and welfare.
- To develop and review Cork County Council safety, health and welfare policies.
- To develop, review and improve Cork County Council's safety culture.
