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:
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.
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:
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.