Health & Safety
Effective health and safety management is essential to the effective overall management of Digital Home Networks Ltd. Our organization is fully committed to ensuring that health and safety is planned, organized, controlled, monitored, reviewed and resourced.
Digital Home Networks will ensure full compliance with the Health & Safety at Work Act 1974 and all the Regulations, Codes of Practice and Guidance made under the Act and other relevant legislation.
Digital Home Networks will ensure that adequate resources are provided to meet its health and safety commitments and will enforce the full commitment and co-operation of all staff and employees to jointly strive to meet these aims.
In order to effectively control and manage all health and safety risks which are present within the work carried out by its employees, Digital Home Networks has adequate and effective systems and procedures in place to ensure that a systematic approach is taken towards identifying, quantifying and remedying all significant health and safety risks.
It is Digital Home Networks policy to carry out risk assessments of all work activities conducted by its employees in order to ensure that all the risk to the health and safety of both employees and other persons have been evaluated and measures implemented to eliminate or reduce those risks.
Under the Work at Height Regulations 2005 an employer has a duty to ensure that they do all that is reasonably practicable to prevent anyone falling “from height”. The regulations define a place as “at height” if a person could be injured falling from it, even if it is at or below ground level.
Digital Home Networks will ensure that work at height is avoided where possible, that where work at height cannot be avoided work equipment or other measures to prevent falls is used & that where the risk of a fall cannot be eliminated work equipment or other measures to minimize the distance of a fall will be used. Appropriate risk assessments of all work at height will be carried out and measures taken to eliminate or control the risk of falls.
