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    A Quick Guide to Health and Safety
    A Quick Guide to Health and Safety
    A Quick Guide to Health and Safety
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    A Quick Guide to Health and Safety

    By R Gilbert

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    Health and safety issues now impose upon almost every part of business life. The system of enforcement is managed and implemented in the UK by The Health and Safety Executive (HSE) – but at times it can be difficult to know exactly which bits of this elaborate spider’s web should be applied in a given instance, and which are most important. This Quick Guide puts the subject into context, providing a rational overview and a valid starting point to applying health and safety in the workplace, and offers a concise and readily accessible interpretation of what health and safety legislation means in practice.
    • Puts health and safety in to context
    • Provides a rational overview and starting point to applying health and safety in the workplace
    • Offers a concise interpretation of health and safety legislation in practice
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherElsevier Science
    Release dateMay 20, 2008
    ISBN9781845695002
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      A Quick Guide to Health and Safety - R Gilbert

      A Quick Guide to Health and Safety

      R. Gilbert

      Table of Contents

      Cover image

      Title page

      Inside Front Cover

      Copyright

      The Quick Guide Series

      Invitation to New Authors

      Introduction

      Your 10 Minute A–Z Guide to Health and Safety

      Chapter 1: Health and Safety Legislation – How Much is There?

      Publisher Summary

      1.1 Some of the other legislation

      1.2 Other sources of information

      Chapter 2: Enforcement and the Legal Situation

      Publisher Summary

      2.1 Who enforces the laws and regulations?

      2.2 What is the purpose of enforcement and how is it done?

      2.3 Provision of information and advice

      2.4 Proportionality (action proportional to the risk)

      2.5 Improvement notices and prohibition notices – what are they?

      2.6 Reasonably practicable – what does this mean?

      2.7 Who will receive the most attention from enforcing authorities?

      Chapter 3: Health and Safety … so What Business are You in?

      Publisher Summary

      3.1 Business survival

      3.2 Good H&S should be good business

      3.3 As well as hurting people, accidents and injuries cost the business

      3.4 If you think training is expensive – try ignorance

      3.5 What are the most common accidents and causes of injury?

      Chapter 4: The Health and Safety at Work Act 1974 (HSW Act) and What it Means

      Publisher Summary

      4.1 Basic concepts and duties

      4.2 Duties of employers to employees

      4.3 Duties of employers (and self-employed) to others

      4.4 Duties of employees

      4.5 Consultation with employees

      4.6 Duties to provide safety equipment or PPE

      4.7 Duties of manufacturers

      4.8 Powers given to the enforcing authorities

      4.9 What does ‘at work’ mean?

      4.10 Management of H&S regulations – what are they?

      Chapter 5: Risks and Risk Assessments – What are They?

      Publisher Summary

      5.1 Everyday risks

      5.2 Risk – what do we mean?

      5.3 Risk assessments – what are they?

      Chapter 6: Health, Safety and Welfare Requirements in the Workplace

      Publisher Summary

      6.1 What are the applicable regulations?

      6.2 What is a workplace?

      6.3 The regulations and what they require you to do

      6.4 Brief summary of the Construction Workplace Regulations

      6.5 Enforcement

      6.6 Regular tours of the workplace

      Chapter 7: Machinery and Other Work Equipment

      Publisher Summary

      7.1 What are the main regulations with which you have to comply?

      7.2 What equipment is covered by these regulations?

      7.3 How do you know that machines and equipment you buy are safe?

      7.4 What do I have to maintain and inspect?

      7.5 Instruction and training for use and safety

      7.6 Stopping equipment and emergency stops

      7.7 Guards and guarding

      7.8 What to do about cleaning and maintenance

      Chapter 8: Pressure Plant and Equipment

      Publisher Summary

      8.1 What is pressure plant and equipment?

      8.2 What is a relevant fluid?

      8.3 Do the PSSR (Pressure Systems Safety Regulations) apply to me?

      8.4 What do I have to do to comply with the regulations?

      8.5 What is meant by safe operating limits?

      8.6 What is a written scheme of examination?

      8.7 Who is a competent person?

      Chapter 9: Lifting and Handling

      Publisher Summary

      9.1 Manual handling regulations

      9.2 General guidelines for lifting, pushing and pulling

      9.3 What to consider in a risk assessment and who does it?

      9.4 Manual handling training and instruction

      9.5 What about lifting equipment?

      Chapter 10: Noise

      Publisher Summary

      10.1 Noise at work

      10.2 The regulations (the law) and what you have to do

      10.3 Assessment of risk from noise and reduction of noise levels

      10.4 Hearing protection and warning signs

      10.5 Information and training

      10.6 Health surveillance

      Chapter 11: Hazardous Substances

      Publisher Summary

      11.1 What is COSHH (Control of Substances Hazardous to Health)?

      11.2 Which substances are hazardous to health?

      11.3 If you have hazardous substances – what next?

      11.4 Summary and conclusion

      Chapter 12: Electricity

      Publisher Summary

      12.1 Working with electricity

      12.2 Which regulations do I have to comply with?

      12.3 A summary of the main requirements and duties for users/owners

      12.4 Employers’ duties for work ‘within their control’

      12.5 What to do about portable equipment

      12.6 What to do about isolations

      12.7 Some good practices

      Chapter 13: Working at Height

      Publisher Summary

      13.1 The general situation and current regulations

      13.2 What is work at height?

      13.3 The main requirements of the regulations

      13.4 What to do about working from ladders

      13.5 What to do about fragile roofs

      13.6 What to do about scaffolds and mobile access towers

      13.7 What to do about falling objects

      Chapter 14: VDUs

      Publisher Summary

      14.1 Overview

      14.2 The regulations

      14.3 Do the VDU regulations apply to me?

      14.4 What you have to do to comply with the regulations

      14.5 Eye tests and provision of spectacles (required by Regulation 5)

      14.6 Provision of information and training (required by Regulation 6)

      14.7 Enforcement

      Chapter 15: What to do About Protecting Employees

      Publisher Summary

      15.1 First aid

      15.2 Personal protective equipment

      15.3 Working alone (lone working)

      15.4 Emergency plans (like the fire drills)

      Chapter 16: Other Health and Safety Matters

      Publisher Summary

      16.1 Slips, trips and falls

      16.2 Permits to work and lock off

      16.3 Shift handover – do you have one?

      16.4 Working in confined spaces – this is serious

      16.5 RIDDOR and accident and injury reporting

      16.6 Employee training records

      16.7 Employee consultation on H&S matters

      16.8 Other regulations

      Chapter 17: Will You be Prosecuted?

      Publisher Summary

      17.1 Investigation and the decision to prosecute

      17.2 What events will trigger a prosecution?

      17.3 Some examples of prosecutions

      17.4 Prosecution under The Health and Safety at Work Act or other regulations

      17.5 Who will prosecute?

      17.6 What are the penalties?

      References

      Index

      Inside Front Cover

      MATTHEWS ENGINEERING TRAINING LTD

      www.matthews-training.co.uk

      Training courses for industry

      • Plant in-service inspection training

      • Pressure systems/PSSR/PED/PRVs

      • Notified Body training

      • Pressure equipment code design ASME/BS/EN

      • API inspector training (UK): API 510/570/653

      • On-line training courses available

      Matthews Engineering Training Ltd provides training in pressure equipment and inspection-related subjects, and the implementation of published codes and standards.

      More than 300 classroom and hands-on courses have been presented to major clients from the power, process, petrochemical and oil/gas industries.

      We specialise in in-company courses, tailored to the needs of individual clients.

      Contact us at enquiries@matthews-training.co.uk Tel: 07732 799351

      Matthews Engineering Training Ltd is an Authorized Global Training provider to The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME)

      www.matthews-training.co.uk

      Copyright

      Published by Woodhead Publishing Limited, Abington Hall, Granta Park, Great Abington, Cambridge CB21 6AH, England

      www.woodheadpublishing.com

      and

      Matthews Engineering Training Limited

      www.matthews-training.co.uk

      First published 2008, Woodhead Publishing Limited and Matthews Engineering Training Ltd

      © 2008, R. Gilbert

      This book contains information obtained from authentic and highly regarded sources. Reprinted material is quoted with permission, and sources are indicated. Reasonable efforts have been made to publish reliable data and information, but the author and the publisher cannot assume responsibility for the validity of all materials. Neither the author nor the publisher nor anyone associated with this publication, shall be liable for any loss, damage, or liability directly or indirectly caused or alleged to be caused by this book.

      Neither this book nor any part may be reproduced or transmitted in any form of by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying, microfilming, and recording, or by any information storage or retrieval system, without permission in writing from Woodhead Publishing Limited.

      The consent of Woodhead Publishing Limited does not extend to copying for general distribution, for promotion, for creating new works, or for resale. Specific permission must be obtained in writing from Woodhead Publishing Limited for such copying.

      Some data have been obtained from Health and Safety Executive (HSE) publications and sources. Crown copyright material is reproduced with the permission of the Controller of the HMSO and the Queen’s Printer for Scotland.

      Trademark notice: Product or corporate names may be trademarks or registered trademarks, and are used only for identification and explanation, without intent to infringe.

      British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data.

      A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library

      ISBN 978-1-84569-499-9 (book)

      ISBN 978-1-84569-500-2 (e-book)

      Typeset in the UK by Data Standards Ltd, Frome, Somerset, UK.

      Printed by Cromwell Press Ltd, Trowbridge, Wiltshire, UK.

      The Quick Guide Series

      The Quick Guide data books are intended as simplified, easily accessed references to a range of technical subjects. The initial books in the series were published by The Institution of Mechanical Engineers (Professional Engineering Publishing Ltd), written by the series editor Cliff Matthews. The series is now being extended to cover an increasing range of technical subjects by Matthews Engineering Publishing.

      The concept of the Matthews Quick Guides is to provide condensed technical information on complex technical subjects in a pocket book format. Coverage includes the various regulations, codes and standards relevant to the subject. These can be difficult to understand in their full form, so the Quick Guides try to pick out the key points and explain them in straightforward terms. This of course means that each guide can only cover the main points of its subject – it is not always possible to explain everything in great depth. For this reason, the Quick Guides should only be taken as that – a quick guide – rather than a detailed treatise on the subject.

      Where subject matter has statutory significance, e.g. statutory regulation and referenced technical codes and standards, then these guides do not claim to be a full interpretation of the statutory requirements. In reality, even regulations themselves do not really have this full status – many points can only be interpreted in a court of law. The objective of the Quick Guides is therefore to provide information that will add to the clarity of the picture rather than produce new subject matter or interpretations that will confuse you even further.

      If you have any comments on this book, or you have any suggestions for other books you would like to see in the Quick Guide series, contact us through our website: www.matthews-training.co.uk

      Series Editor

      Cliff Matthews

      Invitation to New Authors

      If you have an idea for a Quick Guide book and are interested in authorship, we are interested in hearing from you. You do not have to already be a published author (in fact we are actively interested in finding new unpublished ones with a bit of talent). All we ask is that:

      • you know your subject as well as (or even slightly better than) others in your field;

      • you can explain it in simple terms;

      • you have the tenacity to write 25 000–30 000 words (and accompanying figures and tables).

      If you can meet these requirements, then get in touch and we will discuss with you the procedure for submitting your proposal. Contact Cliff Matthews at:

      enquiries@matthews-training.co.uk

      Introduction

      Author

      R. Gilbert

      Attention all employers, employees, managers and business owners, Health and Safety (H&S) is here to stay. I suspect you

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