Report on Occupational Health and Safety
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Report on Occupational Health and Safety
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Table of ContentsINTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................3TASK 1............................................................................................................................................31.1 Define health and safety legislation.................................................................................31.2 Main points of health and safety policies.........................................................................41.3 Responsibilities of health and safety association workers...............................................41.4 Activities which cannot done without special training.....................................................5TASK 2............................................................................................................................................52.1 Access additional support or information relating to health and safety?.........................5TASK 3............................................................................................................................................63.1 Different types of accidents and sudden illness...............................................................63.2 Practices that reduce the spread of infection....................................................................6TASK 4............................................................................................................................................74.1 Own role in supporting others to follow practices that reduce the spread of infection ...74.2 Describe the causes and spread of infection.....................................................................7TASK 5............................................................................................................................................75.1 Main points of legislation that relate to moving and handling.........................................75.2 Main principles of moving and handling..........................................................................8TASK 6............................................................................................................................................86.1 Types of Hazardous substances that may be found in the work setting...........................8TASK 7............................................................................................................................................97.1 Describe what practices prevent fires..............................................................................97.2 Procedures to be followed in the event of a fire...............................................................9TASK 8............................................................................................................................................98.3 Why must your colleagues know where you are at all times...........................................9TASK 9............................................................................................................................................99.1 Describe 5 common signs of stress..................................................................................99.2 How would you recognise your own stress....................................................................109.3 Factors that may trigger your own stress........................................................................109.4 Describe 4 different strategies for managing stress........................................................11
INTRODUCTIONOccupational health and safety is relevant to all branches of industry, business andcommerce including traditional industries, information technology companies, the NationalHealth Service, care homes, schools, universities, leisure facilities and offices. It is particularlyimportant for the construction industry (Clifford, 2012). The purpose of this chapter is tointroduce the foundations on which appropriate health and safety systems may be built.Occupational health and safety affects all aspects of work. TASK 11.1 Define health and safety legislationThe Health and Safety at Work Act had tended to relate to specific industries orworkplaces. The law was more concerned with the requirement for plant and equipment to besafe rather than the development of parallel arrangements for raising the health and safetyawareness of employees. A further serious problem was the difficulty that legislation had inkeeping pace with developments in technology. For example, following a court ruling in 1955which, in effect, banned the use of grinding wheels throughout industry (Gaitonde and et. al,2010). The Health and Safety at Work Act established the HSC and gave it the responsibility todraft new Regulations and to enforce them either through its executive arm, known as the Healthand Safety Executive (HSE), or through the Local Authority Environmental Health Officers(EHO). The HSC has equal representation from employers, trade unions and special interestgroups. The principal recommendations were as follows:there should be a single Act that covers all workers and that Act should contain generalduties which should ‘influence attitudes.the Act should cover all those affected by the employer’s undertaking such ascontractors, visitors, students and members of the public there should be an emphasis on health and safety management and the development ofsafe systems of work. This would involve the encouragement of employee participationin accident prevention. (This was developed many years later into the concept of thehealth and safety culture) enforcement should be targeted at ‘self-regulation’ by the employer rather than relianceon prosecution in the courts.
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