A clear dog policy is written down and accessible to staff before the question of bringing a dog arises, stating the terms on which dogs are kept at work.
Standard Requirement
A clear dog policy is written down and accessible to staff before the question of bringing a dog arises, stating the terms on which dogs are kept at work.
RDWS-01 A1 · Pass/fail. Fail this requirement and the outcome is Not Certified.
A clear dog policy is written down and accessible to staff before the question of bringing a dog arises, stating the terms on which dogs are kept at work.
Informal assurances and marketing language are not a policy. If the rules only surface when someone asks, they have not been published. A written, findable policy is the floor of fair terms.
Assessed via
Assessed under RDWS-CAF-01 (forthcoming)
Roch Interpretation
The policy has to be written down and findable, not held in a manager's head. A rule nobody can read is not a policy.
Examples
Compliant
The dog policy sits in the staff handbook and on the intranet, available to everyone before they ever bring a dog in.
Not compliant
Dogs are 'generally fine', but there is nothing written and the rules depend on who you ask.