Health and Safety Policy

Our Health and Safety Policy is a 37-page document.
Below is the introductory text.
Please contact us for a copy if you would like to view the full policy.

Statement of intent
1. Therapy Training School (“ TTS ”) recognises and accepts its legal obligations (under the Health and Safety at Work etc Act 1974 and all applicable regulations made under it) to ensure, as far as is reasonably practicable, the health, safety and welfare at work of all its employees, persons in training, contractors and temporary workers (“Employees”) and the health and safety of visitors and other persons who attend or use its premises and who may be affected by its work (“Visitors”). 

2. In accordance with its legal obligations, TTS has carried out a risk assessment of its activities, equipment, facilities, building and all other related arrangements where matters of health and safety may be involved.  This Health and Safety Policy (“the Policy”) is designed to enable TTS to comply with its statutory health and safety obligations, to apply the necessary measures identified in its risk assessment and to adopt all other reasonably practicable measures (within the limits of available resources) to:
2.1 reduce hazards and the risk of personal injury to its Employees and Visitors arising out of its activities;
2.2 maintain a safe and healthy place of work; and 
2.3 reduce hazards and the risk of damage to its property. 

3. In particular, TTS shall:
3.1 continue to identify hazards and assess risks to health and safety;
3.2 provide and maintain safe equipment and systems of work that are free of risk to health;
3.3 maintain any place of work under its control (including access and egress) safe and free of risk to health;
3.4 provide safe arrangements for the use, handling, storage and transport of articles, goods and substances;
3.5 provide adequate and appropriate information, instructions, training and supervision;
3.6 consult with all the Employees on health and safety matters;
3.7 liaise with contractors and other employers where necessary;
3.8 monitor, inspect and review the implementation of this Policy; and
3.9 review and update this Policy Whenever there is a change in working conditions or staff numbers.

4. To this end, proper implementation and application of this Policy by everyone is paramount.  Employees are required to comply with the terms of this Policy and any related arrangements or policies from time to time in force; take all reasonable steps to protect their own safety and that of other Employees; and co-operate with management in the implementation of this Policy.

5. The ultimate responsibility for overseeing the implementation of this Health and Safety Policy rests with TTS’s Proprietor.

Signed by Karen Aitken, on the 20th June 2006

Our Mission Statement

We are dedicated to working toward improving the quality of our services in order to:

Raise awareness within the community of the range of complementary therapies available and the benefits that can be obtained from them.
Facilitate better representation for complementary health therapists.
Enable everyone to find their own path to good health thereby ‘Creating a Healthier Community’.
Allow the community and therapists a vehicle for expressing needs and contributing ideas.
Increase the accessibility and deployment of quality complementary therapies (most especially to the underprivileged, elderly and disabled).

We aim to work alongside existing complementary therapy bodies and professional organisations in order to better inform our users and the public of relevant news and information as it occurs.

We look to collaborate with these organisations in research, networking and training.

We aim to be one of the central points for the dissemination of information relating to complementary and alternative health. To this end we will develop and maintain an Internet portal with the express aim of achieving this task.

We look to secure funding so that where ever and when ever possible, therapies can be made available to the underprivileged.

In relation to therapists Therapies Online (A sister company of Therapy Training School Therapy Training School) will support and promote therapists, generating work and encourage networking and good business practice.

We will use new Information Technologies allowing the public easy access to a vast health care resource and direct access to therapists. The same technology will be utilised to deliver up-to-the-minute information on solutions, support, communication and self-promotion tools to therapists.

Our ultimate aim is to enable individuals to find their own path toward good health and thereby ‘Creating a Healthier Community’.