Health & Safety

Duty of employers in relation to safety of employees and others

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

Regulations

Safety Management

Genetic Engineering

Electrical Safety

Radiation Protection

Electricity at Work, 1989

Hazardous Substances

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

Includes micro-organisms

Exposure limits

Occupational Exposure Standard (OES)

Maximum Exposure Limit (MEL)

Basis of good safety practice

Identify risk

Reasonable steps to eliminate them or...

Protect people from them

May involve:

Modifying procedures

Provision of:

Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) or...

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Immunisation or prophylaxis

Setting of maximum exposure limits

Staff monitoring and health surveillance programmes

Ensure compliance with agreed protocols

Identify new problems as they arise.

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SubtoAt least 6-monthly

Ongoing

All staff

Accidents/Incidents

Action taken in response

Audit records

Portable Appliance Testing (P.A.T.)

New equipment

Electrical

Must be tested before installation

Comply with relevant British Standard

Inventory of all substances held or imported.

Identify hazardous

Carcinogenic/poisonous

Explosive

Oxidising

Environmental Hazards

Radioactive

Risk Assessment for

Use

Storage

Regularly updated

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