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What are the theee key reasons to manage safely?

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  1. Moral, 2. Legal, 3. Financial
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Your role and responsibilities are

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Accountability

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What is a hazard?

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Anything which has potential to cause harm when a hazardous event takes place

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What is a hazardous event?

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Takes place when someone or something intersects with the hazard and harm results

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What is likelihood?

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Measure if the chance a hazardous event will occur

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What is consequence?

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The outcome of the hazardous event

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What is risk?

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Likelihood x consequence

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What is a risk assessment?

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A careful examination of anything in your workplace that could cause people to suffer injury or ill health at work

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What does a risk assessment allow you to do?

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Tell whether you’re doing enough to protect your workforce, meet your legal requirements and demonstrate good business practice

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How are risk assessments carried out?

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  1. Identify hazards, 2. Estimate risk, 3: evaluate risk, 4. Record your findings, 5. Review your findings
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What two groups require their own risk assessment?

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Young people at work and expectant mothers

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What three things do you need to consider on a risk assessment?

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Who might be harmed and why? How likely is something to go wrong and how serious may the outcome be?

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Risk rating?

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Likelihood x consequence

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Likelihood ranking

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Very unlikely, unlikely, fairly unlikely likely, likely, very likely

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Consequence ranking

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Insignificant, minor, moderate, major, catastrophic

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A risk assessment is?

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A careful examination of the environment to assess risk and reduce harm/illness

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What is the level of risk called after we’ve introduced our controls?

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Residual risk

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Hierarchy of risk control

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  1. Eliminate hazard, 2. Reduce hazard, 3. Prevent contact, 4. Safe system of work, 5. Wear ppe
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To decide which risk control to use, there’s a hierarchy which is

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Hierarchy of control and what is reasonably practicable

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What does the law require you to do?

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Take care of your own health and safety and that of others who can be affected by what you’re doing -m

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Who guides the law

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HSE

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What is reasonable foreseeability?

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Having a plan for anything which could have been seen to be happening

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Three types of knowledge

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Common knowledge, industry knowledge and expert knowledge

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What is statuary law?

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Put in place by parliament

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What do ik employers have a legal duty under?
Health and safety at work act, workplace regulations 1992 and corporate manslaughter and corporate homicode act 2007
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Name policies under the HASAWA
Manual handling, PPE, CoSH
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What is a civil law action?
No jury - just judge. Decision is precedent which means it will be the verdict in similar cases
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What three things to claimants need to show in a civil law case?
1. The defendant owned the person a duty of care, 2. The duty of care was breached, 3. The injury was caused by the breach of duty
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What is the balance of probiobilites probabilities?
How civil law is judged - has to be over 50%
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What is contributory negligence
The defendant played a part in their injury bc of their own actions
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What are the 5 key parts of health and safety management system?
1. Plan, 2. Do, 3. Check, 4. Act, 5. Leadership
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What two things are part of the plan health and safety management
Policy and planning
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What two things are part of do in the health and safety management system
Risk profiling and implement plan
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What two things are part of check health and safety management system
Collect data and measure performance
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What two things are part of the act health and safety manager system?
Review performance and learn lessons
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Occupational health and safety law squires you to
Reduce reasonably foreseeable risks so far as is reasonable practicable
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Occupational health and safety is overseen by
HAE
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Burden of truth
Is an obligation to prove what is alleged
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Civil law
Is a section of the law which deals with disputes between individuals or organisations
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Criminal law
Is the section of the law that deals with those who commit offences which are considered wrong, damaging to individuals or to society’s as a whole or are otherwise unacceptable
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Duty of care
Is the legal requirement that employers must do everything’s reasonably practicable to protect others from harn
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Precedent
Is a type of law not produced by government but is developed over time by the decision made by judges
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Standard of proof
Is the level of proof required to convince the judge or jury that the case is proven
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Statuary law
Consist of the laws which have been made acts of parliament
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What are the six common hazard?
Mechanical, physical, chemical, biological, environmental and organisational
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What is a mechanical hazard?
E.g machinery
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What are physical hazards?
Most common are slipping and manual handling
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What are chemical hazards?
Chemicals and includes particles like dust
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What are biological hazards?
Substances or micro organisms
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What are environmental hazards?
Conditions or events
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What are organisational hazards
Associated with behaviours, workload and time constraints
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What work dimensions may have the potential to be stressful?
Temporal aspects of work, workload content, interpersonal issues with a team or with supervisors and organisational structures
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In criminal law what does the court case focus on
Accused
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In civil law what does the court case focus on
The injured party
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What if your main source of criminal law
Statute law
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What is the main source of civil law
Common law precedents
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Who makes criminal law
Parliament
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Who makes the civil law
Judges
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Who initiates legal proceedings in criminal law
HSE or local authority
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Who initiates legal proceedings in civil law
Anyone affected by
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What is the most likely outcome of criminal law
Imprisonment, fines and/or remedial orders
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What is the most likely outcome for civil law?
Compensation payouts
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Who has to provide burden of proof in criminal law
State
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Who has to provide burden of proof in civil law
Claimant
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What is the standard of proof required in criminal law
Beyond reasonable doubt
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What is the standard of proof required in civil law
Balance of probabilities
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How soon must legal action start in criminal law
Six months after offence (can be extended)
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How soon must legal action start in civil law
Three years from discovery of harm (can be extended)
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What are the main parts of law that apply is criminal law
HASWA and act 1964 and associated regulation
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What are the main parts of law that apply to civil law
Duty of care and negligence
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Name three ways a person can become harmed from mechanical hazards
Contact or entanglement, crushing or being struck by equipment
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Name theee categories of mechanical hazard
Crushing, cutting, impact
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How can chemicals enter a body
Absorption, ingestion and inhalation
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Name 4 examples of biological hazards
Bacteria, viruses, fungi, parasites
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Name three common infections from biological hazards
Anthrax, hepatitis, leptospirosis (weils disease)
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Name 4 environmental hazards
Noise, poor light, temperature and dust
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Name the theee rules of aspestos
Chrysotile (white), amosite (brown) and crocidolite (blue)
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What risk assessment will manual handling use?
Tile (task, individual, load and environment)
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What is a common manual handling injury?
Musculoskeletal disorder (MSD)
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What is the most common cause of occupational illness?
Musculoskeletal disorders
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What are the 6 steps of an incident investigation?
Look after the injured person, preserve the scene, report the incident, assemble the investigation team, investigate using a structured approach and handle external relations
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Investigate using a structured approach
Gather information, analyse findings, review current risk controls, create and action plan, share & communicate suggested improvements
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Who might external relations be?
Enforcement authorities, media and local residents/businesses
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Why do you need to investigate incidents
Prevent reoccurrence
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Incidents happen because
Immediate causes, underlying causes, root causes
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