Complacency can be a powerful foe.
According to Alan Hambidge, director of Empathy Environmental Consultants, having in place effective, documented risk management systems and policies should be "a given" for any large healthcare organisation today. This was particularly important, he told a recent IHEEM risk management seminar, since (as previous speaker and lawyer at Beachcroft Colin Moore had made clear, HEJ-September 2010), without the "back-up" of documented evidence that such systems were in place and active, the courts would take a dim view; potentially imposing fines of many thousands of pounds in the event of conviction for a breach of health and safety regulations.
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