Page 5 of 7 5.5 ALL MANAGERS WILL:  Demonstrate their commitment to the Health and Safety Policy through leading by example. Managers are accountable for the implementation of the Policy within their area of control.  Ensure that responsibilities for safety, health and welfare are properly assigned and understood by employees within their area of control and where appropriate develop a local policy/procedure specific to their unit.  Ensure hazards are identified and that written Risk Assessments are up to date and ensure the review, monitoring and re-issue of Risk Assessments as and when necessary e.g. change in work practices, the introduction of new processes and at not less than 12 monthly intervals.  Assess work activities for risk, planning work activities in order to minimise the risk of accident or ill health to both employees and non-employees and highlighting hazards to employees and detailing/explaining preventative measures.  Provide employees and non-employees with the necessary information, instruction and training to complete their tasks safely.  Ensure that there is employee involvement and co-operation in Team meetings and so on.  Supervise work activities adequately to ensure good health and safety standards are maintained.  Maintain an awareness of current health and safety legislation, issues and procedures and operating within these requirements.  Receive reports from and respond as appropriate to health and safety reports received from employee health and safety representatives.  Ensure that WATMOS adheres to all statutory requirements, auditing such matters as risk assessments, fire precautions, first aid, manual handing, safety of vehicles/machinery/plant/electricity/hazardous chemicals/accidents etc.  Develop safe working practices and ensure safety rules are observed.  Ensure that protective clothing appropriate to the risk is available and used.  Ensure active monitoring of health and safety matters for example by undertaking health and safety inspections and surveys and self audits to ensure compliance with health, safety and welfare legislation.  Ensure that targets set on health and safety are being achieved and health and safety measures implemented remain appropriate.  Set high standards of health and safety and promote good practice.  Consult employees and their representative bodies on health, safety and welfare matters and ensuring adequate facilities and information are available to them.  Motivate all employees in the promotion of safe and healthy working conditions and ensure adequate training and equipment is provided.  Ensure reactive monitoring takes place such as investigating all reported accidents, near misses, incidents of violence and occupational illness (via referral to NHS Occupational Health where appropriate) in order to identify causes to establish the facts and put in place measures to prevent recurrence, ensuring records of accidents/occurrences are kept and examined so that trends can be monitored and targets set.  Monitor health and safety standards at local level, to identify patterns and trends and address issues of concern.