A Quick Guide to Health and Safety

<ul> <li>The Quick Guide Series</li> <li>Invitation to New Authors</li> <li>Introduction</li> <li>Your 10 Minute A–Z Guide to Health and Safety</li> <li>Chapter 1: Health and Safety Legislation – How Much is There? <ul> <li>Publisher Summary</li> <li>1.1 Some of the other legislation</li> <li>1.2 Other sources of information</li></ul></li> <li>Chapter 2: Enforcement and the Legal Situation <ul> <li>Publisher Summary</li> <li>2.1 Who enforces the laws and regulations?</li> <li>2.2 What is the purpose of enforcement and how is it done?</li> <li>2.3 Provision of information and advice</li> <li>2.4 Proportionality (action proportional to the risk)</li> <li>2.5 Improvement notices and prohibition notices – what are they?</li> <li>2.6 Reasonably practicable – what does this mean?</li> <li>2.7 Who will receive the most attention from enforcing authorities?</li></ul></li> <li>Chapter 3: Health and Safety … so What Business are You in? <ul> <li>Publisher Summary</li> <li>3.1 Business survival</li> <li>3.2 Good H&S should be good business</li> <li>3.3 As well as hurting people, accidents and injuries cost the business</li> <li>3.4 If you think training is expensive – try ignorance</li> <li>3.5 What are the most common accidents and causes of injury?</li></ul></li> <li>Chapter 4: The Health and Safety at Work Act 1974 (HSW Act) and What it Means <ul> <li>Publisher Summary</li> <li>4.1 Basic concepts and duties</li> <li>4.2 Duties of employers to employees</li> <li>4.3 Duties of employers (and self-employed) to others</li> <li>4.4 Duties of employees</li> <li>4.5 Consultation with employees</li> <li>4.6 Duties to provide safety equipment or PPE</li> <li>4.7 Duties of manufacturers</li> <li>4.8 Powers given to the enforcing authorities</li> <li>4.9 What does ‘at work’ mean?</li> <li>4.10 Management of H&S regulations – what are they?</li></ul></li> <li>Chapter 5: Risks and Risk Assessments – What are They? <ul> <li>Publisher Summary</li> <li>5.1 Everyday risks</li> <li>5.2 Risk – what do we mean?</li> <li>5.3 Risk assessments – what are they?</li></ul></li> <li>Chapter 6: Health, Safety and Welfare Requirements in the Workplace <ul> <li>Publisher Summary</li> <li>6.1 What are the applicable regulations?</li> <li>6.2 What is a workplace?</li> <li>6.3 The regulations and what they require you to do</li> <li>6.4 Brief summary of the Construction Workplace Regulations</li> <li>6.5 Enforcement</li> <li>6.6 Regular tours of the workplace</li></ul></li> <li>Chapter 7: Machinery and Other Work Equipment <ul> <li>Publisher Summary</li> <li>7.1 What are the main regulations with which you have to comply?</li> <li>7.2 What equipment is covered by these regulations?</li> <li>7.3 How do you know that machines and equipment you buy are safe?</li> <li>7.4 What do I have to maintain and inspect?</li> <li>7.5 Instruction and training for use and safety</li> <li>7.6 Stopping equipment and emergency stops</li> <li>7.7 Guards and guarding</li> <li>7.8 What to do about cleaning and maintenance</li></ul></li> <li>Chapter 8: Pressure Plant and Equipment <ul> <li>Publisher Summary</li> <li>8.1 What is pressure plant and equipment?</li> <li>8.2 What is a relevant fluid?</li> <li>8.3 Do the PSSR (Pressure Systems Safety Regulations) apply to me?</li> <li>8.4 What do I have to do to comply with the regulations?</li> <li>8.5 What is meant by safe operating limits?</li> <li>8.6 What is a written scheme of examination?</li> <li>8.7 Who is a competent person?</li></ul></li> <li>Chapter 9: Lifting and Handling <ul> <li>Publisher Summary</li> <li>9.1 Manual handling regulations</li> <li>9.2 General guidelines for lifting, pushing and pulling</li> <li>9.3 What to consider in a risk assessment and who does it?</li> <li>9.4 Manual handling training and instruction</li> <li>9.5 What about lifting equipment?</li></ul></li> <li>Chapter 10: Noise <ul> <li>Publisher Summary</li> <li>10.1 Noise at work</li> <li>10.2 The regulations (the law) and what you have to do</li> <li>10.3 Assessment of risk from noise and reduction of noise levels</li> <li>10.4 Hearing protection and warning signs</li> <li>10.5 Information and training</li> <li>10.6 Health surveillance</li></ul></li> <li>Chapter 11: Hazardous Substances <ul> <li>Publisher Summary</li> <li>11.1 What is COSHH (Control of Substances Hazardous to Health)?</li> <li>11.2 Which substances are hazardous to health?</li> <li>11.3 If you have hazardous substances – what next?</li> <li>11.4 Summary and conclusion</li></ul></li> <li>Chapter 12: Electricity <ul> <li>Publisher Summary</li> <li>12.1 Working with electricity</li> <li>12.2 Which regulations do I have to comply with?</li> <li>12.3 A summary of the main requirements and duties for users/owners</li> <li>12.4 Employers’ duties for work ‘within their control’</li> <li>12.5 What to do about portable equipment</li> <li>12.6 What to do about isolations</li> <li>12.7 Some good practices</li></ul></li> <li>Chapter 13: Working at Height <ul> <li>Publisher Summary</li> <li>13.1 The general situation and current regulations</li> <li>13.2 What is work at height?</li> <li>13.3 The main requirements of the regulations</li> <li>13.4 What to do about working from ladders</li> <li>13.5 What to do about fragile roofs</li> <li>13.6 What to do about scaffolds and mobile access towers</li> <li>13.7 What to do about falling objects</li></ul></li> <li>Chapter 14: VDUs <ul> <li>Publisher Summary</li> <li>14.1 Overview</li> <li>14.2 The regulations</li> <li>14.3 Do the VDU regulations apply to me?</li> <li>14.4 What you have to do to comply with the regulations</li> <li>14.5 Eye tests and provision of spectacles (required by Regulation 5)</li> <li>14.6 Provision of information and training (required by Regulation 6)</li> <li>14.7 Enforcement</li></ul></li> <li>Chapter 15: What to do About Protecting Employees <ul> <li>Publisher Summary</li> <li>15.1 First aid</li> <li>15.2 Personal protective equipment</li> <li>15.3 Working alone (lone working)</li> <li>15.4 Emergency plans (like the fire drills)</li></ul></li> <li>Chapter 16: Other Health and Safety Matters <ul> <li>Publisher Summary</li> <li>16.1 Slips, trips and falls</li> <li>16.2 Permits to work and lock off</li> <li>16.3 Shift handover – do you have one?</li> <li>16.4 Working in confined spaces – this is serious</li> <li>16.5 RIDDOR and accident and injury reporting</li> <li>16.6 Employee training records</li> <li>16.7 Employee consultation on H&S matters</li> <li>16.8 Other regulations</li></ul></li> <li>Chapter 17: Will You be Prosecuted? <ul> <li>Publisher Summary</li> <li>17.1 Investigation and the decision to prosecute</li> <li>17.2 What events will trigger a prosecution?</li> <li>17.3 Some examples of prosecutions</li> <li>17.4 Prosecution under The Health and Safety at Work Act or other regulations</li> <li>17.5 Who will prosecute?</li> <li>17.6 What are the penalties?</li></ul></li> <li>References</li> <li>Index</li></ul>