With health and safety in the workplace, employers must;
- Provide and maintain safety equipment and safe systems of work
- Ensure materials are properly stored, handled and transported (COSHH)
- Provide information, training, instruction, supervision
- Provide a safe place of employment
- Provide written safety policy/risk assessment
- Look after H&S of others e.g. public
- Talk to safety representatives
What 6 methods can an employer user to ensure safety
Training Guarding of machines Personal Protective Clothing Extraction COSHH Risk Assessments
What does HSE stand for
Health & Safety Executive
What is HSE responsible for
The health ans safety commission is responsible for health and safety regulation in Great Britain
The health and safety executive and local government are the enforcing authorities who work in support of the commission
What are the 5 steps of a risk assessment
- Identify the hazard
- Decide who might be harmed and how
- Evaluate the risks an decide on precautions
- Record your findings and implement them
- Review your assessment and update if necessary
What does COSHH stand for
Containment Of Substances Hazardous to Health
What is the ideas behind risk management
ensuring that workers and the public are properly protected
enabling innovation and learning not stifling them
ensuring that those who create risks manage them responsibly and understand that failure to manage significant risks responsibly is likely to lead to robust action
providing overall benefit to society by balancing benefits and risks, with a focus on reducing significant risks - both those which arise more often and those with serious consequences
enabling individuals to understand that as well as the right to protection, they also have to exercise responsibility
when talking about harm remember this could be physical or mental
