Health & Safety Policy — Teddington Skip Hire
Teddington Skip Hire is committed to delivering secure, efficient rubbish company and skip hire services with the highest regard for health and safety. This policy sets out our approach to protecting staff, contractors, customers and members of the public from harm arising from waste collection, skip placement and rubbish removal activities. Our objective is to maintain safe working conditions, prevent injury and ill-health, and ensure compliance with applicable health and safety requirements while providing responsible skip hire services.This policy applies to all operations, including delivery and collection of skips, on-site waste handling, transfer to licensed facilities and contractor activities. It sets expectations for management and employees and explains how we integrate safety into everyday work. The policy covers general risk control measures, the use of personal protective equipment (PPE), safe vehicle operations, traffic management around skip sites and procedures for dealing with hazardous materials encountered during waste removal.
Central to our approach is robust risk assessment and control. Regular assessments identify hazards associated with rubbish removal, waste management, lifting and manual handling, vehicle reversing and site access. Key control measures include:
- Risk assessment before work begins and whenever conditions change.
- Provision and maintenance of appropriate PPE and safety equipment.
- Clear site segregation to prevent interaction between vehicles and pedestrians.
- Safe systems of work for loading, securing and transporting waste.
- Procedures for identifying and segregating hazardous waste and prohibited items.
Our management responsibilities include ensuring adequate resources, training and supervision are in place. Managers will monitor performance, ensure safe vehicles and equipment are supplied, and that legal duties associated with waste transfer and disposal are observed. We emphasise continual improvement of our rubbish company operations through audits, near-miss reporting and corrective action plans to reduce incident frequency and severity.
Employees and contractors have a duty to work safely and follow safe systems of work. Staff must report hazards, use provided PPE, participate in training and report incidents without delay. Supervisors will ensure crews engaged in skip delivery, skip loading and waste collection understand job-specific controls and maintain safe standards while performing routine rubbish removal and bulky waste collections.
Vehicle and roadside safety are vital for skip hire and waste collection activities. Measures include vehicle maintenance schedules, driver competency checks, secure load procedures, reversing aids, high-visibility clothing and traffic management plans for road-side placements. When placing skips on public highways our teams follow pragmatic safety protocols to protect passers-by and to keep traffic flow safe while minimising disruption.
Training and competence form part of our core safety culture. Induction training covers company policies, emergency arrangements and site rules. Ongoing training addresses manual handling, hazardous materials awareness, safe vehicle operation and first aid. Competency checks and toolbox talks maintain awareness of risks associated with waste handling and rubbish removal activities, and help embed practical controls into everyday practice.
Monitoring, record keeping and contractor management are critical controls. We maintain records of risk assessments, vehicle checks, training, incident reports and waste transfer documentation. Contractors are selected and monitored against clear safety expectations; they must demonstrate safe working methods when undertaking site-specific skip hire work or associated services. Audits and inspections verify compliance and feed into continuous improvement.
