Health and Safety at Work For Dummies, UK Edition
Höfundur: RRC
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Are you complying with health and safety regulations in the workplace? Making mistakes in many areas of health and safety can be both incredibly dangerous and hugely costly. So what can you do to avoid hazards and expensive, time-consuming legal battles? That's where Health & Safety at Work For Dummies comes in. Cutting through the clutter, it provides you with the practical, must-know information you need to ensure your workplace is a suitably safe environment that complies with government health and safety rules and regulations.
Did you know that in 2014, 1. 2 million working people suffered from work-related illnesses, 2,535 mesothelioma deaths occurred due to past asbestos exposure and 133 workers were killed on the job? The list goes on – and the statistics are staggering. Health & Safety at Work For Dummies shows you how to keep your employees safe from becoming another statistic in this frightening data. Arming you with critical information needed to adhere to health and safety regulations, it offers expert guidance on managing and implementing health and safety in your business, controlling workplace risks, going the extra mile in following orders and much more.
Offers an easy-to-follow overview for getting started with health and safety Provides tips and advice for planning your health and safety management Includes guidance on monitoring and reviewing your health and safety systems Clearly demonstrates how to organize and motivate your workforce to comply with rules and regulations You can't afford to run a business that doesn't provide a safe work environment.
Annað
- Höfundur: RRC
- Útgáfa:1
- Útgáfudagur: 2016-03-21
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- Format:ePub
- ISBN 13: 9781119287247
- Print ISBN: 9781119210931
- ISBN 10: 1119287243
Efnisyfirlit
- Cover
- Introduction
- About This Book
- Foolish Assumptions
- Icons Used in This Book
- Beyond the Book
- Where to Go from Here
- Part I: Getting Started with Health and Safety at Work
- Chapter 1: Making Sense of Health and Safety in the Workplace
- Putting Health and Safety into Context
- Benefitting Your Business
- Speaking the Language Like a Pro
- Chapter 2: Setting Your Health and Safety Policy
- Deciding Whether to Go It Alone or Seek Assistance
- Navigating the Maze of Official Guidance
- Preparing Your Health and Safety Policy
- Implementing Your Statement of General Policy
- Chapter 3: Engaging Your Workforce with Health and Safety
- Developing a Positive Safety Culture in Your Workplace
- Taking Control
- Co-operating with Health and Safety
- Talking the Talk: Communicating about Health and Safety
- Investing in Your People
- Chapter 4: Assessing Health and Safety Risks in the Workplace
- Thinking about Risk
- Conducting Your Risk Assessment
- Controlling Your Risk Level
- Transferring Financial Risk with Insurance
- Chapter 5: Getting Your House in Order
- Working Up a Healthy Sweat
- Staying Safe and on the Move
- Considering Employee Welfare
- Chapter 1: Making Sense of Health and Safety in the Workplace
- Chapter 6: Moving to a Recognised Safety Management System
- Discovering Why Safety Doesn’t Manage Itself
- Choosing a Recognised Safety Management System
- Looking at Safety Management System Elements
- Implementing a Recognised Safety Management System
- Chapter 7: Developing Safe Systems and Procedures
- Developing Safe Systems of Work
- Preparing Emergency Procedures
- Contracting Procedures
- Chapter 8: Monitoring and Reviewing Health and Safety in the Workplace
- Monitoring Your Safety Management System
- Using KPIs and Targets
- Conducting Inspections and Audits
- Learning from Accidents
- Improving Health and Safety Performance
- Chapter 9: Tackling Behaviour-Based Issues: Workplace Woes
- Lifting the Lid on Violence
- Stressing Out
- Wising Up to Drugs and Alcohol
- Chapter 10: Harnessing Gravity and Managing Workplace Transport
- Working at Height
- Controlling Workplace Transport
- Chapter 11: Unpacking Manual Handling and Other Ergonomic Risks
- Introducing the Problem
- Taking Practical Steps to Handle Loads Safely
- Getting Comfortable with Workstations
- Chapter 12: Working Safely with Machinery
- Getting to Know Your Machinery’s Hazards
- Controlling Machinery Risk
- Making Safeguards Count
- Using Your Machinery
- Chapter 13: Shocking Truths: Electrical Safety
- Keeping Current on Electrical Hazards
- Preventing Danger: Controlling Your Electricity Risk
- Chapter 14: Fanning the Flames: Fire Risk
- Playing with Fire
- Assessing Fire Risk
- Selecting Options for Fire Prevention and Protection
- Chapter 15: Getting the Chemistry Right: Controlling Hazardous Substances
- Assessing the Risks to Health from Chemical Substances
- Keeping Chemicals under Wraps
- Getting to Know Asbestos
- Chapter 16: Making Waves: Tackling Noise, Vibration and Radiation
- Dealing with Noise and Vibration in the Workplace
- Addressing Radiation Concerns in the Workplace
- Chapter 17: Wrestling with Health and Safety Law
- Judging What’s Right: The UK Legal System
- Drawing Out the Health and Safety at Work etc Act 1974
- Breaking into the Management Regulations
- Chapter 18: Developing a Positive Safety Culture: Factoring in Human Behaviour
- Evolving Your Organisation’s Safety Culture
- Anticipating the Impact of Human Factors
- Chapter 19: Cracking Process Safety
- Approaching Safety Differently
- Breaking Down Process Safety Management
- Stacking Up Some Process Safety Management System Elements
- Chapter 20: Ten Ways to Get Risk Assessment Wrong
- Using a Risk Assessment to Justify Decisions You’ve Already Made
- Making Your Risk Assessment Too Generic
- Overcomplicating Your Risk Assessment
- Ignoring Industry Standards and Good Practice
- Using the Wrong Guidance
- Knowing Nothing about the Activity You’re Assessing
- Leaving Consultants to the Task without Getting Involved Yourself
- Getting Bogged Down in Trivia
- Treating Your Risk Assessment as a Paper Exercise
- Assuming That Nothing Ever Changes
- Chapter 21: Ten Neat Tools to Help You Assess Risks and Choose Controls
- Office Risk Assessment Tool
- Risk Assessment Routefinder
- COSHH Essentials
- Manual Handling Assessment Charts (MAC) Tool
- Assessment of Repetitive Tasks (ART) Tool
- Noise Exposure and Hearing Protection Calculators
- Hand-Arm Vibration Exposure Calculator
- Work at Height Access Equipment Information Toolkit
- Asbestos Essentials Task Sheets
- Stress Management Tools
- Chapter 22: Ten Great Health and Safety Websites
- Health and Safety Executive
- Health and Safety Executive Northern Ireland
- Public Health England
- Fire Safety in the Workplace
- Legislation
- Institution of Occupational Safety and Health
- Occupational Safety and Health Consultants Register
- European Agency for Safety and Health at Work
- World Health Organization
- International Labour Organization’s Encyclopaedia of Occupational Health and Safety
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