Health & Safety Policy

Statement of Policy for Health and Safety

HypnoTC (HypnoTC Ltd, HypnoTC: The Hypnotherapy Training Company) is committed to ensuring the health, safety and wellbeing of its employees and students, so far as is reasonably practicable, through the development of a positive Health and Safety culture.

HypnoTC is committed to safeguarding the health and safety of contractors, other visitors and the general public who may be affected by HypnoTC’s activities, so far as is reasonably practicable.

HypnoTC considers that good health and safety performance is a fundamental prerequisite if HypnoTC’s strategic aims are to be effectively realised.

In order to achieve this, HypnoTC aims to:

  • Develop and promote a positive health and safety culture
  • Comply with all relevant legislation
  • Resource adequately health and safety provision
  • Ensure (informal) risk assessments are undertaken and risks are controlled adequately
  • Prevent injury and ill health of all persons affected by the activities of HypnoTC
  • Adopt and promote best practice in all aspects of health and safety at work
  • Monitor and review the effectiveness of HypnoTC’s arrangements and make improvements as required

 

Primary responsibility for ensuring the safety of any activity rests with the director of HypnoTC (Dr Kate Beaven-Marks).

Safety, including personal security, is therefore an important issue that needs to be considered at all levels of management. All individual members of staff must also pay appropriate regard to their health and safety responsibilities.

Legal compliance demands the integration of health and safety management into all planning activities. The support and co-operation of all staff and students is essential to achieve legal compliance.

Management of risk is the key to achieving HypnoTC’s health and safety objectives. The process of risk assessment will be used to ensure that this is done in an efficient, systematic and cost-effective manner.

 

Directors’ Responsibilities

The director of HypnoTC is responsible for all aspects of Health & Safety pertaining to the company and courses. This includes ensuring that there is an appropriate Health & Safety Policy and appropriate arrangements for ensuring the communication and implementation of this policy.

The directors bear ultimate responsibility for ensuring safety of staff, students and other people affected by HypnoTC’s activities.

The director will:

  • ensure that the safety management within HypnoTC as a whole, complies with the H&S Policy and relevant legislation. This will be achieved through the development of a safety culture that demands a high standard of safety performance from all members of staff and students.
  • ensure that supervision of students is an integral element of teaching.
  • provide the necessary information, instruction and training to enable staff to perform their work in a safe manner.
  • take personal action, and empower any other members of staff, to suspend or stop any dangerous activity not carried out within the requirements of the safety policy.
  • undertake their essential part to play in the risk assessment process. This is both in terms of controlling the risks arising out of work, but also in terms of educating their junior colleagues to become proficient in assessing the risks inherent in their work.
  • take charge of monitoring the implementation of the Health and Safety Policy and arrangements for securing the health and safety of employees and others.
  • investigate areas of weaknesses in these arrangements and aim to strengthen those areas where possible.
  • promote a spirit of co-operation between all staff and students in respect of the implementation of measures to secure the safety and health of all staff and students.
 
Staff Responsibilities

All staff (including the director) of HypnoTC are expected to comply with any safety arrangements that are in force and are also under a legal obligation to take reasonable care for the health and safety of themselves and others. Anyone contravening these instructions may be subject to disciplinary proceedings and possible legal action.

Staff must report accidents, injuries, near misses, dangerous occurrences, unsafe circumstances and work-related ill health to the director.

 
Students and Visitor Responsibilities

All students and visitors to any HypnoTC course/ training/ meeting are expected to comply with any safety arrangements that are in force and are also under a legal obligation to take reasonable care for the health and safety of themselves and others.

 

Training

HypnoTC is committed to providing suitable and sufficient health and safety training for its staff where it is deemed necessary/ requested. Staff are expected to participate in training which is provided for their health and safety.

 
Risk Assessment

It is a legal requirement for HypnoTC to ensure that a suitable and sufficient (informal) assessment of the risks to the health and safety of its staff, to which they are exposed whilst they are at work and the risks to health and safety to persons not in HypnoTC’s employ, arising out of or in connection with HypnoTC business.

It is the responsibility of the director to ensure that the (informal) risk assessment is carried out before work is undertaken.


Accident and Incident Reporting and Investigation

All work-related accidents, injuries, near misses, dangerous occurrences, and work-related ill-health should be identified, recorded and investigated to establish their underlying causes and to enable these to be remedied.


Policy first issued: 2 January 2016
Latest policy review date: 10 December 2025