ABSTRACT

This chapter focuses on the key factors to consider in developing an effective health and safety policy. Construction organizations which successfully achieve a high standard of health and safety practice invariably have in place clear and accepted health and safety policies. Moreover, these policies embrace the organization's social and corporate responsibilities for health and safety and develop a holistic and supportive culture in which good practice becomes the norm rather than the exception. Clear health and safety policies provide for the systematic and cost-effective identification, monitoring and control of health and safety risk and are prerequisite to the planning and organization of an effective health and safety management system.