Health & Safety

Policy Statement

We recognise our duties under current Health and Safety legislation, and we will endeavour to meet the requirements of this legislation and maintain a safe and healthy working environment.

Our colleagues are informed of their responsibilities to ensure they take all reasonable precautions, to ensure the safety, health and welfare of those that are likely to be affected by the operation of our business. We recognise our duty to make regular assessment of the hazards and risks created, within the course of our business.

We also recognise our duty, so far as is reasonably practicable:

To meet our legal obligations to maintain safe and healthy working conditions

To provide adequate control of the health and safety risks so identified

To consult with our employees on matters affecting their health and safety

To provide and maintain safe plant and equipment

To ensure the safe handling and use of substances to provide information, instruction, training where necessary for our workforce; taking account of any who do not have English as a first language

To ensure that all workers are competent to do their work, and to give them appropriate training

To prevent accidents and cases of work-related ill health

To actively manager and supervise Health & Safety performance and management through regular (at least annual) review and revision of this policy

To provide the resource required to make this policy and our Health and Safety arrangements effective.

We also recognise:

Our duty to co-operate and work with other employers and their workers, when their workers come onto our premises or sites to do work for us, to ensure the Health and Safety of everyone at work. To help achieve our objectives and ensure our employees recognise their duties under Health & Safety legislation whilst at work we will also inform them of their duty and setting out our company Health and Safety rules in an Employee Safety Handbook which is made available to every worker employed by us. In support of this statement a responsibility chart and more detailed arrangements are set out within the Health & Safety policy document.

Signed: Flo Wholesale Directors

Date: January 2026. Review Date: January 2027.