Health and Safety UPDATE Des Hillier Matrix Safety 1 July 2010

Feed the need At the H&S Strategy meeting in late 2009 the need for a H&S system review was identified because: –The policy is 3 years old –Some problems had been identified –It’s a dynamic thing Jim, always moving, –It needed some new bits

The main changes The food safety policy has been renewed, there is a new HACCP section because EHOs kept on challenging the system (it did not quite fit their inspection form - So that’s what we have done There is a new contractors section on the website – Matrix Safety has been busy reviewing all the contractors used by Empire to produce an ‘ approved contractors list’ We have added a new ‘permits to work section’

We reviewed Every element of the manual, risk assessments, training and guidance were line by line reviewed and mistakes, errors and pips removed. Updates were applied to the H&S manual We have changed the reporting of monthly meetings (its now 2 parts and all online)

Audit There is a new audit online for 2010, following 2009 audits a full review of the first Matrix Audit was undertaken. You can expect an audit in 2010! There will be an advisory visit in 2010 once these changes have been embedded

Contractors A new web area A new contractor management policy A new contractor approval system Online reporting of poor contractors by Cinemas Permits to Work introduced with local approval controls in place.

What you need to do when you get back to your cinema Talk your CM who manages H&S meetings through the pre meeting checks and the online reporting system. Let them have a play in July and we will go live in August Print out the new food safety Policy and train the new HACCP section in to staff Note the main changes: only 1 temp check per day but YOU can elect to have more for larger Cinemas (per shift) ; remember you are checking that the equipment works not sausage monitoring

Refresh each page go to the index page (home) and press F5 to refresh, then follow each link and refresh them to get the new navigation matrix at the top.