Assignment: 6

Learner Name: Daniyal Aamir

Scenario
EMAIL TO DIRECTOR
Monday 6
6th September 2021,
09:30 Good morning.
As reuse and recycling centre manager and, in particular, in my role as health and safety officer, I
believe the existing health and safety policy, signed by a previous manager who retired in 2015,
will need to be updated.
Health and safety legislation mandates that an organisation must write, implement, communicate
and review the health and safety policy. In addition, health and safety standards or guidance are
often rewritten and replaced.
New managers are promoted while others get transferred to other recycling centers. This
naturally results in recruitment of managers and workers who have ideas about different hours
and days of working to account for public demand.
We have taken delivery of brand-new skip-moving vehicles that operate around the skips. While
these new vehicles are welcome, challenging recycling targets mean that the workforce have
changed working practices and processes to meet these targets.
When I speak to the workers, they often complain that many procedures, outlined in the policy,
do not reflect what actually happens these days.
In addition to all this the fact that we have previously been served an enforcement order was a
reminder that administrative and practical things need addressing.
Thank you.
Yours sincerely,
R.E.W Atkins

Question
Task 7: The manager’s reasoning for a health and safety policy review
Based on the email sent by the manager in the scenario, what is likely to have prompted the
policy review?
Answer:
 The existing health and safety policy was signed by a previous manager who retired in
2015 so first of all it should be updated immediately because a policy is not a dead
document it should be updated regularly if there are no changes then it can be revised
annually
 The organization must write the legislation mandate of the health and safety policy
 The organization should implement the legislation mandate of the health and safety policy
 The organization must communicate and review the legislation mandate of the health and
safety policy
 The organization should rewrite the health and safety standards and then replace these
standards from the previous one
 The organization should rewrite the guidance of following health and safety standards and
then replace these guidance’s with the previous one
 The organization should revise the policy for the managers who are posted to higher
position because there is change in the activity
 The organization should update the policies for those managers who gets transferred to
other recycling plants\
 The organization should implement new polices of health and safety for the managers who
are newly recruited
 The organization should implement new polices of health and safety for the workers who
are newly recruited
 The organization should implement new polices of health and safety related to working
hours and days for new managers and workers
 The organization should implement new polices related to health and sagety for the newly
purchased skip moving vehicles because this is technological change and new step taken
by organization
 The organization can face challenges because of this technological advancement
therefore such polices are made that can overcome these challenges
 The organization should implement the polices related to the new working practices for the
workers so that they can easily achieve the given target and can’t face difficulties
 The new policies that organization make should be accurate and clear and the outlined
procedures should be accurate according to work because the workers have complain
about this issue