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HSG65 – Effective Health & Safety Management
HSG65 is the management model described in the
POLICY
HSE's Guidance Document Effective Health &
Safety Management, its index number is HSG65
and this is commonly used as an abbreviation.
ORGANISATION
• Policy – The organisation makes a statement
of intent to prevent injury and ill health, and AUDIT
PLANNING AND
IMPLEMENTATION
to comply with applicable laws and
regulations.
• Organisation – The organisation allocates MEASURING
PERFORMANCE
responsibilities to the appropriate people.
These people are selected according to the
4C criteria, Control, Cooperation, REVIEW
Communication, Competence. You wouldn't
make the accounts manager responsible for
operations in the warehouse, that would be allocated to the warehouse manager.
• Providing training and ensuring competence of those with responsibilites is part of the
organisation step of HSG65.
• Planning – The responsible people devise their plans in order to achieve the goals and objectives
set out in the policy. Risk assessment is a key part of the planning step since you cannot manage
risks until you understand what the risks are and can arrange them in some sort of order of
importance (priority).
• Implementation – The plans are put into action.
• Measuring Performance The results of the implementation are monitored and performance is
tracked. There are two aspects of measuring performance:
• Active Monitoring (Before the event)
• Reactive Monitoring (After the event)
• Audits – Audits are carried out in every aspect of the management system to determine the level
of effectiveness and report on any acheivements and areas which can be improved. The audit
report has a broad scope and includes interviews with employees, observation of the workplace
and inspection of documents.
• Review – The findings of the audits and the results from performance measurement are
reviewed by senior management to determine if goals and targets have been achieved and to
alter aspects of the system in order to address gaps and deficiencies.