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
