The purpose of the Safety, Health and Welfare at Work Act 2005 is to provide for Safety, Health and Welfare of all employees in the workplace. The Act applies to all employers and employees in the varied works and duties discharged as part of the activities of LM Developments.

Section 20 of the 2005 Act requires each employer and self employed person to prepare a written Safety Statement, identify hazards and assess the risk associated with their activities and their place of work. In addition, the Safety Statement must detail the level of co-operation required and the resources required to achieve this goal. Regulation 10 of the 1993 General Application Regulations further amplifies the requirements for the Safety Statement.

In response to these requirements, LM Developments has prepared a detailed Safety Statement, which is divided as follows:

A Safety Statement which describes in broad terms the company's management programme for securing Safety, Health and Welfare and the systems for co-operation between employees and management, general methodology and standards required within the company, and an appendix dealing with hazard identification and risk assessment.

This Safety Statement deals with the general organisation of the company and details the responsibility of each employee as regards Safety, Health and Welfare and specifies the general criterion to be adopted for each construction project undertaken by the company. However, the statement is of a general nature and does not deal with the individual safety issues relating to specific sites. Site specific hazard identification and risk assessment will require to be carried ­out for each project and should be addressed in the Safety and Health Plan prepared under the Safety, Health and Welfare (Construction Regulations 2001).

GENERAL STATEMENT OF POLICY :

It is the policy of this company to comply with the Health & Safety at Work Act 2005, the Construction Safety, Health & Welfare Regulations 2001and the Public Health (Tobacco) Act 2002/2004 Section 47 Smoking Prohibitions and to ensure, so far as reasonably practicable, the safety, welfare of all employees whilst at work, and to provide such information, training and supervision, needed for this reason.

It is the policy of this Company to protect, as far as is reasonably practicable, persons not employed by this company who may be affected by our activities.

All employees have the responsibilities to co-operate with supervisors and managers to achieve a healthy and safe workplace and to take reasonable care of themselves.

It is the policy of this Company to consult all staff and employees on matters of health and safety and employees are hereby notified of the Company Policy and are encouraged to comply with their duties under the 2005 Act to notify the Company management of identified hazards in the workplace.

The allocation of their duties for safety matters and particular arrangements to implement the policy are set out in the Company Safety Statement.

The Policy will be kept up to date particularly as the business changes in nature and size. To ensure this, the Policy and the way in which it is operated, will be reviewed as required.

This Statement is distributed to all Contract Managers, Agents, Site Managers and Designated Supervisors and shall be available at locations where this Company carries on business.