Subcontractor Health & Safety / Welfare Questionnaire Phone This checklist should be completed annually. SUBCONTRACTOR: Company Name: * Companies House Reg. No: * Company Address: * GENERAL REQUIREMENTS: 1: Can you confirm you have in place suitable and sufficient insurance in respect to learners (employers’ liability, public liability and other e.g. driving) and as legally required? * Yes No 2: Have you ever been prosecuted under Health & Safety legislation or been served prohibition or improvement notices by an Enforcing Authority e.g. HSE? * Yes No (if Yes, please provide details) 3: Are you aware of, and complying with, relevant Health & Safety legislation? * Yes No YOUR POLICY: 4: Do you have a Health & Safety policy (statement, organisation and arrangements)? * Yes No 5: Does the policy include a commitment to and arrangements for learners including arrangements for safeguarding vulnerable groups? * Yes No 6: Does your policy work in practice and help create a ‘safety culture’ and ‘safe learners’? * Yes No ORGANISING EFFECTIVELY: 7: Do you have competent person(s) responsible for Health & Safety? * Yes No Please detail competent person(s) and position held: Name: Position Held: Email Address: Telephone No: 8: Are Health & Safety responsibilities made clear for key staff and employees? * Yes No 9: Do you have effective arrangements for communicating Health & Safety matters? * Yes No 10: Do you have effective arrangements for the consultation and participation of employees and learners in Health & Safety matters? * Yes No PLANNING AND IMPLEMENTING GOOD HEALTH & SAFETY: 11: Have you assessed the risks to the Health & Safety of your employees and learners? * Yes No 12: Do you have arrangements in place to review and adjust risk assessments if a learner has special needs, a disability, learning/language difficulty or is a young person? * Yes No 13: Have you got effective control measures/precautions as a result of risk assessments? * Yes No 14: Do you review risk assessments to take account of changes/accidents/incidents? * Yes No 15: Do you have arrangements for ensuring safe plant and equipment and using PPE? * Yes No 16: Do you have clear standards/procedures covering who does, what and when? * Yes No MEASURING YOUR PERFORMANCE: 17: Do you regularly check Health & Safety standards and conditions in practice? * Yes No 18: Do you have effective arrangements in place for the identification, investigation, notification and reporting of accidents and ill-health to employees and learners? * Yes No 19: Do managers monitor Health & Safety performance e.g. at management meetings? * Yes No REVIEWING AND AUDITING YOUR PERFORMANCE AND IMPROVEMENTS: 20: Do you periodically audit your Health & Safety arrangements? * Yes No 21: Do senior managers review performance, e.g. annually, and identify improvements? * Yes No 22: Do you have an annual Health & Safety action/development plan? * Yes No 23: Is there a commitment to continually raise Health & Safety standards? * Yes No PROMOTING THE ‘SAFE LEARNER’: 24: Do you ensure learners receive effective information, instruction and training (incl. induction)? * Yes No 25: Do you evaluate the effectiveness of this information, instruction and training? * Yes No 26: Do you ensure the effective supervision of learners? * Yes No 27: Do you promote the concept of the ‘safe learner’? * Yes No 28. Do you hold a current Safeguarding policy? * Yes No 29. Do you hold a current Prevent policy? * Yes No LEARNING IN SAFE, HEALTHY AND SUPPORTIVE ENVIRONMENTS: 30: Do you have arrangements for ensuring, and monitoring, that learning takes place in safe, healthy and supportive environments? * Yes No 31: If learning takes place at other locations e.g. work placements, work experience etc do your arrangements include assessing Health & Safety suitability prior to the learning taking place? * Yes No UPLOAD SUPPORTING DOCUMENTS: Any Additional Comments: AUTHORISED TO SIGN FOR AND ON BEHALF OF THE SUBCONTRACTOR: Name: * Position: * Date: *
