Equality & Diversity
Sycol Ltd recognises the positive benefits of the implementation of an Equality and Diversity Policy. The aim of the policy is to ensure that all employees, potential employees, volunteers and visitors are treated in a fair and equitable manner regardless of their age, disability, marital status, family responsibility, race, colour, ethnic background, nationality, religion or belief, gender, gender identity or sexual orientation.
Sycol Ltd extends this positive attitude in respect of equality and diversity to our contractors, service users and the community.
We will be an equality and diversity champion and leader in:
Promoting equality and diversity
Challenging and eradicating discrimination
Providing responsive and accessible services
In practice this means that we are committed to:
Giving all staff the chance to achieve their full potential by striving to eliminate unfairness, discrimination, victimisation, harassment and bullying at work.
Dealing with staff solely on the basis of merit and without prejudice, thus ensuring fair, responsible and dignified treatment for all in:
- Recruitment
- Performance management/appraisal
- Access to training
- Career development
- Job allocation
- promotion
- Grievance and disciplinary matters
Providing support and encouragement to all staff and volunteers to enable them to give of their best, but with special consideration for members of staff and volunteers with particular needs such as those with domestic responsibilities or with disabilities.
Treating staff employed by others (including agency staff and outside contractors) in a professional manner and making sure they are not harassed, bullied or discriminated against.
The Aim of our Policy:
- To ensure all staff are afforded equality of opportunity.
- To provide a fair structure of Policies and Procedures including Recruitment and Selection, Training, Disciplinary Policy and Procedures and Harassment.
- To ensure all employees have equality of access to promotion and equal pay.
- To attract a diverse workforce and utilise the skills, knowledge and abilities available.
- To create a positive image as an employer and service provider.
Increase performance and efficiency, and prevent disciplinary and grievance cases. - Zero tolerance of breaches of our Equality and Diversity Policy.
All instances of alleged misbehaviour will be investigated under our Disciplinary Policy and Procedures.
To recognise the diversity of the residents of, and visitors to, Wales and their diverse backgrounds, culture and Endeavour to remove any barriers to access the services we provide.
Health & Safety
Statement of Sycol Ltd Safety Policy (Health and Safety at Work Act 19740
It is Sycol Ltd's policy to ensure, so far as it is reasonably practicable, the health, safety and welfare at work of all its staff in accordance with the relevant statutory requirements.
Within the general policy stated above it is the Sycol Ltd's policy in particular:
- to provide and maintain systems of work that are, so far as is reasonably practicable, safe and without risks to health
- to make arrangements for ensuring, so far as is reasonably practicable, safety and absence of risks to health in connection with use, handling, storage and transport of articles and substances
- to provide such information, instruction, training and supervision as is necessary to ensure, so fair as is reasonably practicable, the health and safety at work of its employees
- so far as is reasonably practicable as regards any place or work under Sycol Ltd's control to maintain it in a condition that is safe and without risk to health and to provide and maintain means of access to and exit from it that are safe and without such risks
- to provide and maintain a working environment for its employees that is, so far as is reasonably practicable, safe, without risks to health, and adequate as regards facilities and arrangements for their welfare at work
- to provide such protective equipment as is necessary to ensure, as far as us reasonably practicable, the health and safety at work of its staff
- to encourage staff to set a high standard of safety by personal example and to accept a reasonable level of reasonability for the health and safety of themselves and their colleagues
- the Health and Safety Policy Group is reasonable through its Chairman for ensuring the implementation of Sycol Ltd's safety policy to encourage staff to undertake recognigsed training in First Aid.
Access
We want our web site to be as accessible as possible and strive to conform at a minimum to Level Double-A compliance as specified by the Web Accessibility Initiative. The guidelines defined by the WAI also form the basis of the standard required by the Royal National Institute for the Blind and their "See it right" campaign. We aim to comply with the Disability Discrimination Act of 1995 with respect to the provision of services online, as required by the Disability Rights Commission. This Act states unambiguously that private and public sector web sites must be accessible.
This web site has also been developed to meet the requirements of the Quality Framework for UK Government Website Design as published by The Office of the e-Envoy.
Please contact us if you wish to give us feedback so we can continue to improve the accessibility of this web site.
Accessibility features:
- Links are written to make sense when read out of context
- All images used in this site have appropriate text equivalents
- Cascading style sheets have been used for layout and presentation
- Each page is constructed so that it can be read without style sheets
- This site uses relative font sizes to enable the user to specify "text size" in visual browsers
- All forms follow a logical Tab sequence
- A site map has been included to provide information about the general layout of the site
Environment
Sycol Ltd attempts at all times to be friendly to the environment and is committed to conserving resources and contributing positively and responsibly to the environment.
We aim to ensure that we:
- Perform as much of our business as possible electronically and minimise paper use
- Recycle materials where possible - especially paper, and electronic items
- Dispose of waste through safe and responsible means
- Choose electrical equipment that consumes low energy and ensure that non-critical equipment is switched off when not needed
- Wherever possible, purchase recycled products
- Our environmental policy is communicated to all of our staff and progress is monitored and reported
