What Every Good Manager Needs to Know About Health and Safety
Published on 25. January 1996
Book
Paperback/Softback
287 pages
978-0-566-07734-0 (ISBN)
Description
New legislation introduced as a consequence of the Single Market reinforces the accountability of managers for the health and safety of their staff. Contravening the regulations can have serious personal consequences. This text provides managers with the information they need to know, with the focus upon the key statutory health and safety requirements that affect every business, and every manager, in the European Union. It highlights ways in which organizations can manage these responsibilities with confidence and the knowledge that they are doing all that is "reasonably practicable" to comply. Management action checklists at the end of each chapter summarize the principal requirements for each area. This guide should be useful for any manager responsible for staff.
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Edition
New edition
Language
English
Place of publication
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Edition type
New edition
Illustrations
index
Dimensions
Height: 154 mm
Width: 235 mm
Weight
450 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-566-07734-0 (9780566077340)
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Content
Part 1 The basics: The Health and Safety at Work Act 1974 (HASAWA); organizing for health and safety; the company safety policy; health and safety monitoring; inspection, prosecution and sanction; safety representatives and safety committees; contractors. Part 2 Before the EC: health and safety training; accidents at work; the control of substances hazardous to health; fire and fire precautions; first-aid; miscellaneous regulations and requirements. Part 3 The single market: European health and safety directives; the Managing Health and Safety at Work Regulations (MHSW); Health and Safety (Display Screen Equipment) Regulations (DSE); Workplace (Health, Safety and Welfare) Regulations (HSW); the Manual Handling Operations Regulations (MHO); Personal Protective Equipment at Work Regulations (PPE); the Provision and Use of Work Regulations (PUWE); Construction (Design and Management) Regulations (CD&M); the way forward.