Health and Safety Introduction

To ensure personal and animal safety

To reduce costs only

To avoid learning new skills

To ignore legal requirements

Risk assessment terminology

Hazards, risks and control measures

Manual handling principles

Fire safety principles

To provide a reasonable standard of care

To protect themselves and others

To ignore health and safety training

To only focus on profit

Environmental Protection Act (1990)

Manual Handling Operations Regulations 1992

PPE 1992

Data Protection Act 2018

Providing the correct number of toilets and washbasins

Ensuring a no smoking/vaping policy

Offering somewhere to rest and eat meals

Ignoring first aid provision

Staff can have a day out for learning

Staff make reduced compensation claims.

Staff have increased opportunity to socialise.

Staff have increased morale and productivity

It places a duty on all employers to assess and manage risks to their employees which have arisen from work activities.

It places a duty on all employers to report and manage risks of substances hazardous to health to their employees.

It places a duty of care on all employers to ensure adequate welfare needs are met during daily working activities

It places a duty of care on all employers to ensure the necessary equipment is purchased to keep their employees safe at work.

Well maintained equipment

Obstructed traffic routes

Windows that can open easily

Lack of signage

Health and Safety policy.

Health and Safety leaflet.

Health and Safety email.

Health and safety briefing.

Risk assessment, safe working practices, and understanding legislation

Only using fire extinguishers

Focusing solely on animal husbandry

Ignoring practical skills

To provide modern equipment.

To provide a good phone signal.

To provide washing facilities.

To provide training for qualifications.

Powder

Water

Wet chemical

Carbon dioxide

To detect a fire and give a warning via a loud beeping noise.

To detect a fire once large flames are present and to make a loud noise.

To detect if someone is smoking in prohibited areas.

To detect fumes from machinery to prevent a polluted atmosphere.

The Health and Safety Officer.

Their line manager.

The employee

The first aider.

It places a duty on all employees to ensure all members of the general public are safe from harm.

It secures the health and safety of employees when working with the general public and other companies.

It places a duty on employers to ensure the health, safety and welfare of all their employees at work.

It secures health and safety for the general public after working hours.

Caustic

eroding

corrosive

Burn

Irritant

annoying