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Health & Safety

Record Keeping

Inventory of all substances held or imported.

Regularly updated

Risk Assessment for

Storage

Use

Identify hazardous

Radioactive

Environmental Hazards

Oxidising

Explosive

Carcinogenic/poisonous

New equipment

Electrical

Must be tested before installation

Comply with relevant British Standard

Portable Appliance Testing (P.A.T.)

Audit records

Accidents/Incidents

Action taken in response

Safety Training

All staff

Ongoing

Safety Audits

SubtoAt least 6-monthly

Identify new problems as they arise.

Subtopic

Ensure compliance with agreed protocols

Risk Assessment

Basis of good safety practice

Protect people from them

May involve:

Staff monitoring and health surveillance programmes

Setting of maximum exposure limits

Immunisation or prophylaxis

Provision of:

Special accommodationSubtopic

Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) or...

Modifying procedures

Reasonable steps to eliminate them or...

Identify risk

COSHH, 1988

Exposure limits

Maximum Exposure Limit (MEL)

Occupational Exposure Standard (OES)

All employers have a duty to assess the risk to health of substances used in workplace

Includes micro-organisms

Health & Safety at Work Act, 1974

Regulations

Hazardous Substances

Radiation Protection

Electricity at Work, 1989

Electrical Safety

Genetic Engineering

Safety Management

Duty of employees to cooperate with employers in complying with safety procedures.

Duty of employers in relation to safety of employees and others