
Risk Assessments: Questions and Answers
Pat Perry(Author)
ICE Publishing
2nd Edition
Published on 15. December 2016
Book
Paperback/Softback
352 pages
978-0-7277-6076-0 (ISBN)
Description
Risk Assessments: Questions and Answers is a practical handbook providing best practice solutions to a comprehensive set of frequently asked questions about risk assessments. This book explains and covers approved codes of practice, legal requirements and the latest guidance on a wide range of health and safety topics.
This new edition offers best practice guidance to interpreting the many queries that arise from official legislation by providing practical solutions to a wide range of compliance issues, enabling project managers, health and safety professionals and those responsible for regulatory compliance to comply with the law and apply it successfully to their own businesses.
Risk Assessments: Questions and Answers:
uses an accessible and clear question and answer format for easy reference
offers a pragmatic, practical approach to complying with the latest legislation
contains checklists and templates to aid the reader in their design of risk assessment systems
includes a brand new chapter on commercial security and business risks.
Covering the most up to date and significant topics of risk assessment, this book highlights an employer's key responsibilities, and provides an invaluable easy reference guide for everyday questions.
This new edition offers best practice guidance to interpreting the many queries that arise from official legislation by providing practical solutions to a wide range of compliance issues, enabling project managers, health and safety professionals and those responsible for regulatory compliance to comply with the law and apply it successfully to their own businesses.
Risk Assessments: Questions and Answers:
uses an accessible and clear question and answer format for easy reference
offers a pragmatic, practical approach to complying with the latest legislation
contains checklists and templates to aid the reader in their design of risk assessment systems
includes a brand new chapter on commercial security and business risks.
Covering the most up to date and significant topics of risk assessment, this book highlights an employer's key responsibilities, and provides an invaluable easy reference guide for everyday questions.
More details
Edition
2nd Edition
Language
English
Place of publication
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Emerald Publishing Limited
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Unsewn / adhesive bound
Dimensions
Height: 208 mm
Width: 147 mm
Thickness: 20 mm
Weight
454 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-7277-6076-0 (9780727760760)
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Schweitzer Classification
Content
1: Introduction
2: Legal framework
3: The Management of Health and Safety
at Work Regulations 1999
4: Undertaking risk assessments
5: Control of substances hazardous to health and dangerous explosive substances
6: Manual handling
7: Noise
8: Display screen equipment
9: Work equipment and work practices
10: Persons with special needs
11: Personal protective equipment
12: First aid
13: Work-related upper limb disorders
14: Fire safety
15: Design risk assessments (CDM)
2: Legal framework
3: The Management of Health and Safety
at Work Regulations 1999
4: Undertaking risk assessments
5: Control of substances hazardous to health and dangerous explosive substances
6: Manual handling
7: Noise
8: Display screen equipment
9: Work equipment and work practices
10: Persons with special needs
11: Personal protective equipment
12: First aid
13: Work-related upper limb disorders
14: Fire safety
15: Design risk assessments (CDM)