Health and Safety Management is critical for Nightlife Venues
Health and Safety ensures businesses work within a positive, safe and legally compliant environment. Managing health and safety includes monitoring risks, learning about regulations and responsibilities, and executing risk-adverse processes. Good health and safety will reduce the likelihood of an accident or injury at your nightlife business, be it a nightclub, bar or entertainment venue.
Why Health and Safety and effective Risk Management matters?
Risks need to be dealt with to prevent them being turned into incidents. Injuries, damages, legal proceedings; implementing good health and safety processes can mitigate costly ramifications.
Improving health and safety comes hand in hand with good leadership, planning and communication. This will inevitably lead to improved employee engagement and productivity, while working within a positive work environment. Investing in good processes proves to lead to long-term financial savings.
3 Key Tips to Managing Health and Safety:
Health and Safety management involves a long list of processes and procedures. More health and safety implementations can be found on the HSE website and should be understood by your Health and Safety officer. Many nightlife venues outsource their HR and H&S solutions, with Sentient being best-placed to provide professional training and guidance.
Together, with Sentient, we’ve put together three key tips for nightlife venues to help them manage effective health and safety at their venue.
Venue Compliance and a Health and Safety Policy
Each venue has responsibilities and specific arrangement that need to be made to ensure compliance. These responsibilities can be found under the guidance section of the HSE website. All actions should be listed within a venue’s health and safety policy.
A health and safety policy should contain: statements of intent, delegated responsibilities, any necessary arrangements, a list of affected parties, and how actions are monitored. Health and safety policies should be reviewed at least annually or in upon an organisational change.
Health and safety outsourcing companies such as Sentient can help nightlife businesses better understand and follow their H&S obligations.
Carry out a Health and Safety audit, alongside Regular Checks
The best way to understand the current state of your venue’s health and safety standards is by performing an audit. This will assist in updating your processes, ensuring paperwork is compliant, and monitoring your company’s progress toward a standard of excellence.
Carry out regular inspections to ensure your staff are following necessary health and safety instructions. This should also include fire safety procedures and reports of workplace accidents.
If you require advice on how to successfully perform and audit – Sentient is able to offer guidance, as well as full health and safety auditing services.
Use our Downloadable Wall Planner
Managing and maintaining effective health and safety measures can seem like a mammoth task for any business. It involves first aid, signage, reports, the correct facilities, and risk assessments. Separating tasks and planning them out is the best way to ensure everything gets done and nothing gets forgotten. Remember – Any slip-up can result in a serious lawsuit, potentially jeopardising the future of your company.
In combination with Sentient, we have provided a downloadable wall planner which can be printed off. This perpetual planner will allow you to mark off key dates across the year, to ensure you never miss an essential check. We’ve also added (in pink) the areas in which NDML and Sentient can support your venue. For the remaining checks, you should review your procedures to ensure you are compliant and up to date.
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For more support in accessing help from Sentient and NDML, get in touch with us below and we can provide tailored guidance for your venue.
