Equal Opportunities, Environmental Policies, Health
& Safety
Equal
Opportunities
The Council is an equal opportunities employer
and is committed to promoting equality of opportunity for all
people irrespective of age, race or ethnic origin,
disability, gender, gender reassignment, sexual orientation,
religion or belief. The Council is keen to ensure that its
suppliers abide by the law and are working to best practice in this
area. All suppliers, as part of the pre-qualification or tender
process, will thus be required to provide evidence that they have
equal opportunities policies in place and are committed to
them.
Environmental Policies
The Council is committed to using the
resources entrusted to it to ensure best value for money at the
least possible cost to the environment. As part of this commitment
to the environment, the Council’s procurement policy will, wherever
practicable, focus on.
· specifying less
environmentally damaging products.
· promoting greater
use of renewable sources.
· encouraging
suppliers to use environmentally friendly practices throughout the
production process.
When applying for certain Council contracts,
you may be requested to supply evidence of your practices and
procedures as they relate to the environment.
Health and Safety
The Council is committed to ensuring the
health, safety and welfare of its employees and that of all others
affected by its undertakings. Contracts to supply goods, works or
services will only be awarded to suppliers who can satisfy the
Council requirements in terms of resources required and their
health and safety competence.
Suppliers appointed by the Council are
expected to demonstrate compliance with current health and safety
legislation including:
- a commitment to the health and safety of its
employees, clients and others
- up to date health and safety policies and
procedures
- adequate risk assessment procedures
- an adequate system of monitoring and
reporting accidents, incidents and ill-health
- access to competent health and safety
advice
- contracts are monitored to ensure compliance
with contract standards and health and safety requirements.