GDES is committed to ensuring the health, safety, and welfare of our employee’s sub-contractors and or casual workers employed on behalf of GDES.

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We will, so far as is reasonably practicable, establish procedures and systems necessary to implement this commitment and to comply with our statutory obligations regarding health and safety.

Our Personnel are informed of their responsibilities to ensure they take all reasonable precautions, to ensure the safety, health and welfare of those that are likely to be affected by the acts and emissions of our operational undertakings.

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GDES understands its duty to identify the significant hazards that may be created by our undertakings and to risk assess these accordingly to ensure that suitable and effective controls are implemented to minimise risk to a suitable level as far as is reasonably practicable to staff and clients alike.

We also acknowledge our duty, so far as is reasonably practicable to:

Provide a safe working environment and fulfil our statutory commitments by actively managing and supervising health and safety at work;

​Identify risks associated with our business activities and ensure suitable and adequate control measures are in place;

Ensure regular consultation regarding matters which affect employee health and Safety;

Ensure that all equipment used by our employees is fit for purpose, adequately maintained and PAT tested where applicable;

Ensure that all vehicles used by our employees are fully insured for business use, fit for purpose, adequately maintained, fully serviced, and MOT’d regularly;

Provide suitable storage and ensure safe handling of Hazardous materials and substances;

Ensure that all employees, sub-contractors and casual staff are competent to undertake their daily work activities by providing all relevant information and training;

Prevent accidents and cases of work-related ill health by ensuring robust reporting and investigation systems are in place;

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Liaise and communicate effectively regarding health and safety matters when working on client’s premises;

Ensure access to competent advisor’s, who will assist us in the continuous improvement in our health and safety performance and management regularly reviewing and revising this policy;

Provide suitable resources required to make this policy and our Health and Safety arrangements effective.

To ensure the above, we have key personnel responsible for managing health and safety, producing site specific risk assessments and their subsequent implementations. This includes revisions as and when required.