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Chpater 01
Chpater 01
• Safety
It means no risk of serious personal harm or injury.
It is a risk-free condition of human life. If you stay
out of the danger area, you are in safety and
protection.
Important Definitions
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Welfare
• lost production.
Employees claims on employers Damage to buildings, equipment Any attributable production and
and public liability insurance or vehicles general business loss.
Uninsured Cost
Damage or loss
Worker’s sick Repairs to plant
of product and
pay and equipment;
raw materials
Extra wages,
overtime working Production time lost while
and temporary delays; investigation
labour;
Fines in the
Loss of future
criminal court
contracts
to the employer
Uninsured
Cost
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insurance experienced
premiums. staff.
• Safe Workplace
• Safe Plant and machinery
• A safe system of work
• Supervision, Training and competency of staff
Explain how health and
safety is regulated and
the consequences of
non-compliance.
The role of national governments and international
bodies
Truly international legal standards of health and safety in workplace do not exist. A great quantity of
countries have enacted their own laws.
• To ensure that --- The workplace, machinery, equipment and processes under their control should
be so for as is reasonably practicable are safe and without risk to the health of workers.
• To ensure that --- The chemical, physical and biological substances and agents under their control
should be so for as is reasonably practicable without risk to health.
• To provide --- where required so far as is reasonably practicable adequate protective clothing and
protective equipment to prevent, risk of accidents or adverse effects on health."
Employers Responsibilities; (R164)
• To provide workplaces and work equipment and working methods, which are safe
and not risky to the health and safety of the worker.
• To deliver necessary training and instructions, considering the functions and size of
different categories of workers
• To provide enough supervision to work to ensure to use the occupational safety and
health measures.
• To make organisational arrangements concerning occupational safety and health
and the working environment suitable for the size of the organisation and the nature
of activities
• To provide, necessary adequate personal protective equipment free of cost to the
worker, when hazards cannot be through other way prevented or controlled
• To ensure that organisational, long working hours and rest breaks, does not badly
affect occupational safety and health of the worker.
• To take all reasonably practicable controls to eliminate excessive physical and
mental fatigue from workers.
• To carry out studies and research keep updated on the necessary scientific and
technical knowledge to comply with the national law.
• It is notable that these are not legal papers but they have got
worldwide acceptance by a large number of states because they
show clearly good and proper management doing
Summarise the
main health and
safety duties of
different groups of
people at work.
Directors and Senior
Managers
• Setting priorities and policies
• Ensure aims, and objectives are suitable.
• Ensure risk assessment and control measure application.
• Lead by example, visible leadership at front.
• Allocation of sufficient resources, in term of finance &
competent Personnel.
• Allocation of clear roles and responsibilities.
• Appointment of a senior manager with specific duties for
OSH.
• Regular review of the Organisational health and safety
performance
Responsibilities of Middle Managers and
Supervisors
They are responsible for;
Safety performance
evaluation, including Maintain health and
To identify training
accident safety records and
needs analysis.
investigation and documentation.
carrying audits.
Explain how contractors
should be selected,
monitored and managed.
Responsibility Resting
with Contractors
Responsibility
rests with a client
Contractors have (as an employer)
So, it is vital to hire
responsibility for for the health and
a contractor on the
their health and safety of his
biases of
safety as well as of employees and the
contractor health
others who might persons paying
and safety
have the effect of visit inside the
competency
their work acts and workplace. Such
instead of price.
actions. liability is divided
into the client and
contractor.
How to Select the Contractor
Record of
Has an effective Names of previous
Qualifications and membership of a
procedure for or current clients
training of staff? professional
monitoring. with all details.
Organisation?
Records of enforcement action and civil claim.
Contractor
Continue Will they submit a method statement for the job?