Health and Safety
The British Council creates international opportunities for the people of the UK and other countries and builds trust between them worldwide. In all that we do the British Council acknowledges our duty of care to ensure a healthy and safe place to work for our staff, customers and visitors. We aim to achieve this through compliance with the safety laws in each of the countries in which we operate. We aim, where practicable, to follow UK standards, guidance and codes of good practice where these offer enhanced standards of health and safety.
Health and safety is everyone’s responsibility, and a particular responsibility for all levels of management. The British Council expects everyone to be aware of their role in workplace safety.
We aim to ensure that all staff and those who work with the British Council foster an attitude of good practice and cooperation in order to achieve good standards of health and safety.
The British Council is committed to:
- maintaining good practice and where we fall below this standard working towards achieving it through improvement in our health and safety performance
- monitoring and reviewing the systems and policy to ensure their suitability, adequacy and effectiveness
- encouraging all staff to play their part in meeting the British Council's health and safety standards
- enabling staff to comply with the British Council's health and safety standards
- providing suitable and sufficient information, instruction, training and facilities to ensure all staff are aware of and equipped to carry out their health and safety responsibilities competently
- ensuring that those contracted to the British Council are aware of and satisfactorily discharge
- their health and safety roles and responsibilities.
We will provide adequate and appropriate resources to implement this policy and will ensure it is communicated and understood.
The British Council will review this policy annually to reflect new legal and regulatory developments and ensure good practice.
The status of this document is British Council policy. It was approved by Martin Davidson, Chief Executive, on 1 November 2011 and is due for review on 1 November 2012.
The Health and Safety policy (pdf 28kb) is also available to download.
