Sainsbury's HR like all other businesses has a safety policy. This is a legal requirement, the policy says in simple terms what the aims of Sainsbury's are

Human resources train new staff for health and safety jobs which include roles being health and safety officers, safety committee meeting holders etc. Customers are also accounted into the health and safety acts for Sainsbury’s HR, these include:-

• Disability needs accounted for- wheelchair access, lifts, helpers etc
• Car parks- checked regularly for trolleys causing hazards, etc.
• Customer fire exits- Kept clear at all times.
• Shelves- all stacked to the lowest they can be.
• Warning signs- always can be visible and heard.
• Smoking, drinking, eating- banned in all stores.
• Substances and solvents-  all kept in unreachable areas for children’s safety (3rd or 4th level shelves).
• Toilets- checked every half an hour for staff and customers.

There are a lot more things human resources do to protect all their customers and employees. Health and safety is important for human resources as it protects their employees and customers, Sainsbury’s reputation will not be very good if employees and customers complained about their poor health and safety care. HR want to retain their staff so if Sainsbury’s HR employees leave as they are not being looked after, HR will have to interview, train and then hire new staff costing them a lot more money which they do not like doing on mistakes like this. Customers will be scared of going into stores if their were no safety officers etc so they will go to Sainsbury’s rivals.

How Sainsbury’s Keep To The Health And Safety Laws:

Sainsbury’s HR wants their employees to work in a safe environment. Laws require all store managers and employees who work there to comply with the health and safety legislation. The big H+S law that all store mangers and employees are responsible for is the Health and Safety at Work Act 1974 (HASWA). This includes general duties and responsibilities that store managers have to their employees and customers.

This act includes up to 12 other various regulations that Sainsbury’s HR also must follow.

Sainsbury’s HR must display details of these acts in a viewable place for everyone to see or they could be facing a prosecution for breaching the health and safety requirement.

The company which enforces the acts is the Health and Safety Executive

(HSE), which has and inspector who can visit a Sainsbury’s store without

wanting to investigate and incident or complaint made against them. Usually an environmental health officer will inspect a store and if they find any problems or unsatisfactory working practises they will give the store manager an improvement notice, which means that that store has a specific time to rectify any problems they have. If the store is so poor the office will give it a Prohibition notice which means that the store manager must shut the store down. The store manager can appeal if they think the discussion is unfair but if they lose the appeal and fail to put matters right, Sainsbury’s HR can be fined a huge amount of money.

If this is all done correctly it will mean:-

1. Good protection of employees
2. Great protection of customers
3. Risks and health related mistakes avoided
4. Sainsbury’s reputation protected