SSR: Welfare Policies and Guidance
The page below lists all MRC corporate Safety, Security and Resilience Policy and Guidance notes in relation to employee Welfare.
New and Expectant Mothers
The document covers the duties of the employer and employee as well as specific hazards and risks that may present additional risk to the pregnant woman and/or the unborn child and/or the new mother, the latter in particular if she is breastfeeding.
Establishments should note that although the law places duties on the legal employer, in some situations establishments carry the responsibility for ensuring the health and safety of persons not our contracted employees. In other words would be seen under health and safety law as being the employer in certain situations. This document clarifies the expectations of the MRC for those not MRC employees but under MRC management control.
- New and Expectant Mothers (Policy and Guidance document. January 2007)
Prevention and Management of Work-related Stress
This document represents a new initiative and provides detailed guidance for the implementation of MRC policy as included in Appendix 9 of the Health Management Policy, published toward the end of 2004, later relocated on the MRC Portal as Human Resources (HR) Health and Safety Policy HR 7.09.
All establishments are required to apply the principles of good management included in Guidance Note 1 and circulate the content of Guidance Notes 3 and 4 to all employees and, where appropriate, to members of the staff complement not directly employed by MRC.
Each Director is required to form a Unit Focus Group to drive the benchmarking and, where appropriate, the survey exercises included in Guidance Note 3. The first and key step is to appoint a co-ordinator for this group. Guidance on the appointment is included in the full document and specifies that “the Director should appoint a person who is respected by the staff, will demonstrate commitment to the risk assessment process and communicates well with staff at all levels”.
The benchmarking and survey should be done as soon as is reasonable. The survey should be completed electronically and two spreadsheets are provided; first, the questionnaire and secondly the analysis tool. User instructions are found within each spreadsheet.
If there are any problems, please contact your Regional safety Co-ordinator.
- Prevention and Management of Work-related Stress (Policy and Guidance document. March 2005)
Lone Working
This document is the current MRC Health and Safety policy and guidance on working alone. As it is one of an earlier series which have not yet been revised, it is available in Word format only. Please note that this Policy and Guidance is in several sections.
- Working Alone (Policy and Guidance document. September 2007)
Reasonable Adjustment
The Equality Act 2010 requires organisations such as the Research Councils to make reasonable adjustments for applicants and employees with a disability.
This means, wherever possible, removing barriers that might get in the way of a disabled person effectively doing his or her job, acquiring a role that he or she is otherwise capable of doing, or otherwise being placed at a substantial disadvantage.
- Reasonable Adjustment (Guidance document. September 2012)