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Safety Policy & Procedure Development

Health and safety policies and procedures are essential, but they don’t always reflect how work really happens. Over time, documents can become outdated, overly complex, or disconnected from day-to-day operations, making them difficult for people to use or trust.

At Yorsafety, we support organisations to develop and review safety policies and procedures that are clear, proportionate, and grounded in real work. The focus is on creating documentation that supports understanding, decision-making, and safe outcomes, not adding unnecessary paperwork.

How We Drive Excellence

Writing and Updating Health and Safety Policies

Writing and Updating Health and Safety Policies

We support the development and review of health and safety policies that clearly set direction and expectations. Policies are written in plain language, aligned with your organisation’s activities and values, and kept proportionate to the level of risk.

Standard Operating Procedures and Work Instructions

Standard Operating Procedures and Work Instructions

Procedures and work instructions are developed with the people who use them. This helps ensure they reflect how tasks are actually carried out and remain practical, usable, and relevant in day-to-day work.

Integration with Standards and Legal Requirements

Integration with Standards and Legal Requirements

Where required, we help align policies and procedures with recognised standards such as ISO 45001 and relevant legal requirements. This is done in a way that supports compliance without overloading teams with unnecessary detail.

Practical Templates and Tools for Teams

Practical Templates and Tools for Teams

We provide templates and tools that help operational teams apply policies and procedures in practice. These are designed to support consistency and understanding, while allowing flexibility where it’s needed.

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Practical Templates and Tools for Teams

We provide templates and tools that help operational teams apply policies and procedures in practice. These are designed to support consistency and understanding, while allowing flexibility where it’s needed.

Frequently Asked Questions

We do both. Some organisations need new policies developed, while others benefit from reviewing and simplifying what they already have. We help you decide what approach adds the most value.

No. Our aim is often to reduce paperwork by removing duplication, outdated content, or unnecessary complexity. The focus is on quality and usability rather than volume.

We involve the people who carry out the work. By understanding how tasks are done in practice, procedures are more likely to be followed and trusted.

Where appropriate, yes. We help ensure policies and procedures meet legal and standard requirements without turning documents into technical or legal texts.

Yes. We can support communication, briefings, and learning activities to help people understand and use new or updated documents.

Absolutely. Support is always scaled to suit the size, risk profile, and maturity of the organisation.

We support organisations of all sizes with developing safety policies and procedures that are clear, usable, and aligned with how work is actually done. From high-level policy development to practical work instructions, our focus is on creating documentation that genuinely supports safe and effective work.

If you’re reviewing existing documents or starting from scratch, get in touch and we can talk through what support would be most useful.

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