A Quick Guide to Health and Safety

- 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.