Health & Safety Basics
Advice and information to keep your workers safe and your business compliant
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In a nutshell
This book provides you with the basic information to make sure that you stay on the right side of health and safety legislation. By following it, and going beyond the bare minimum, you can demonstrate that you are taking your responsibilities seriously and protecting your workforce and your business from the negative impacts of poor health and safety standards. It’s divided into easy-to-follow chapters and provides advice on how to comply with legislation and includes handy documents for you to download and use.
In detail
Good health and safety practices are the foundation of business success. A positive health and safety culture within your organisation can lead to increased productivity and staff engagement, fewer accidents and instances of ill health, less chance of prosecution and personal injury claims. By keeping staff safe, healthy and content you will be able to focus on other areas such as customer service, quality, expansion, etc.
If you get it wrong you will be in danger of staff getting hurt. This may then expose the business to prosecution. Punishment could be imprisonment or unlimited fines. You may have to pay remedial costs to rectify a dangerous situation or piece of machinery. If accidents are happening on your premises you will have downtime whilst they are investigated, and you may receive a personal injury claim from the injured party which could impact your insurance premiums. Your business may also suffer reputational damage.
Luckily this back to basics book takes aways all the worry and stress associated with health and safety and provides all the tools you need to keep your workforce safe and productive.
In addition, it contains a set of handy documents to help implement the planning ideas discussed, plus other useful reference material.
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Anyone who runs a business or who is involved in health and safety who wants to:
- Gain an understanding of health and safety basics and be fully equipped to deal with situations as and when they arise
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- To immediately apply our advice and solutions in practice
- That you can easily adapt to suit your own requirements
In this Tips & Advice book you'll read about...
1. Create a health and safety policy
1.1. Policy sections
1.2. Policy statement
1.3. Policy organisation
1.4. Policy arrangements
1.5. Risk assessment
2. Consult your employees
2.1. Why consult?
2.2. The law
2.3. Consultation policy
2.4. Consultation briefing
2.5. Health and safety committee
3. Provide training and information
3.1. Evaluate the type of training needed
3.2. The law
3.3. Training policy
3.4. Safety training record
3.5. Training matrix
3.6. Health and safety induction
3.7. Refreshing your safety training
3.8. Keep track of safety briefings
4. Provide the right workplace facilities
4.1. A safe environment
4.2. Maintaining a healthy workplace
4.3. Sanitary and washing facilities
4.4. Disabled and temporarily disabled
5. First aid and accidents
5.1. First aid at work policy
5.2. Assessing your first aid needs
5.3. Appointing a first aider
5.4. First aid kit contents
5.5. First aid room
5.6. Accident prevention
5.7. Accident/incident reporting
5.8. Managing accident investigation
5.9. Witness statements
5.10. Accident claim management
6. Fire safety
6.1. Arrangements for emergency procedures
6.2. Fire precautions - assembly points
6.3. The role of the fire marshal
6.4. Meeting your fire training responsibilities
6.5. Fire safety equipment
7. Display the health and safety law poster
8. Get insurance for your business
8.1. Do you need insurance?
8.2. How do you get employers’ liability insurance?
9. Stress and mental health at work
9.1. Widespread problem
9.2. Stress and mental health policy
9.3. Stress self-assessment
9.4. Safety briefing - stress
9.5. Work-related stress and wellbeing tips
10. Slips, trips and falls
10.1. Slips, trips and falls policy
10.2. Slips, trips and falls risk assessment
10.3. Safety briefing - slips and trips
10.4. Tips to prevent slips, trips and falls
11. Manual handling and ergonomics
11.1. What is manual handling?
11.2. Policy and risk assessment
11.3. Manual handling safety briefing
11.4. General lifting tips
11.5. Ergonomics
11.6. Ergonomics tips
12. General office safety
13. Use of chemicals at work
13.1. Chemical policy
13.2. Handling and storing chemical substances
13.3. Use of chemicals checklist
13.4. Chemical safety tips
14. Personal protective equipment (PPE)
14.1. PPE policy
14.2. PPE risk assessment
14.3. Safety footwear briefing
14.4. General PPE tips
15. Machinery safety
15.1. Machinery safety policy
15.2. Machinery maintenance assessment
15.3. Maintaining machinery safely
16. Noise at work
16.1. Noise at work policy
16.2. Noise at work risk assessment
16.3. Noise safety briefing
16.4. Tips to control noise
17. Working at height
17.1. Working at height policy
17.2. Working at height risk assessment
17.3. Working at height safety briefing
17.4. Tips for controlling risks from working at height
18. Electricity at work
18.1. Electrical safety policy
18.2. Electricity risk assessment
18.3. Safety briefing - electricity
18.4. Tips for safe use of electricity
19. Environment
19.1. Environmental policy statement
19.2. Environment aspects and impacts register
19.3. Corporate social responsibility (CSR)
20. Safety culture
20.1. Leading by example
21. Keep current
22. Appendices
22.1. Legislation that may apply to your business
22.2. Workplace safety general precautions
23. Documents
Health and safety policy statement
Health and safety policy organisation
Health and safety policy arrangements
Risk assessment – blank
Consultation policy
Safety briefing – consultation
Flow chart – appointing members to a health and safety committee
Training policy
Safety training record
Training matrix
Health and safety induction checklist
Safety briefing register
Workplace environment policy
Disabled and temporarily disabled checklist
Sanitary and washing facilities checklist
First aid at work policy
First aid needs assessment
First aid kit contents checklist
First aid room checklist
Safety briefing – accident prevention
Accident/incident reporting policy
Flow chart – accident investigation
Safety briefing – accident reportin
Accident investigation form
Accident – witness statement
Accident claim management checklist
Fire safety policy
Fire risk assessment
Fire safety checklist
Fire precautions – assembly points
Safety briefing – the role of the fire marshal
Summary – fire training guide
Fire extinguisher selection guide
Emergency lighting and testing instructions
Stress and mental wellbeing policy
Stress – self-assessment checklist
Safety briefing – stress
Slips, trips and falls policy
Risk assessment - slips, trips and falls
Safety briefing – slips and trips
Manual handling policy
Risk assessment – manual handling
Safety briefing – manual handling
Risk assessment – ergonomics
Display screen equipment – workstation assessment
Use of chemicals at work policy
Risk assessment – handling and storing checmical substances
Use of chemicals checklist
Personal protective equipment policy
Personal protective equipment assessment
Flow chart – PPE selection
Safety briefing - safety footwear
Machinery safety policy
Risk assessment – machinery maintenance
Process – safe system of work – machinery maintenance
Noise at work policy
Risk assessment - noise
Safety briefing – noise
Work at height safety policy
Risk assessment – working at height
Safety briefing – working at height
Electrical safety policy
Safety briefing – electricity
Environmental policy statement
Environment – aspects and impacts register
Corporate social responsibility policy
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