KEY PRINCIPLES IN OCCUPATIONAL SAFETY AND HEALTH
A number of key principles underpin the field of occupational safety and health. Technical Data used in the field explained in safety...
Initial safety and health Management system review
The organization should carry out an initial review of its safety and health management arrangements. This review should compare existing...
MEASURING AUDITING AND REVIEWING PERFORMANCE
The organization should measure, monitor and evaluate its safety and health performance. Performance can be measured against agreed...
KEY ELEMENTS OF SAFETY AND HEALTH MANAGEMENT
The most important elements of a safety management system and health successfully listed in this section. Figure 1 on page 10 below...
Why is it important to have an effective safety and Health management system?
There are good economic reasons for the reduction of occupational accidents and diseases, such as In addition to the ethical and...
Legionnaires’ Disease
Anyone can get this disease, but people who are smokers, drinkers, those who suffer from chronic kidney or respiratory disease and people...
Working with Display Screen Equipment (including VDUs)
Regulations Health and Safety (Display Screen) require employers in 1992 to examine the jobs of employees who regularly assess use...
Work at height
The work at height Regulations 2005 requires that you identify in Steeplejacking, in To those die danger of Injuries caused by a fall....
Lifting and Handling
Manual handling operations 1992 (as amended) is required to take as an employer Risk assessments for manual handling tasks. Manual...
Slips and Trips
Management of health, safety and welfare from 1992 includes the obligation to evaluate and sliding travel risks for employees and others...
