Health and Safety at Work
Managing Health and Safety In the Workplace
There are many different potential risks in to a business when it comes to health and safety. Businesses have to make sure that they protect the employees and the general public from the health and safety risks. The many risks that a business can be effected with are:
* Fire risks
* Accident risk
* Stress
* Injuries
These effect a business, because they have to make sure that every risks is thoroughly checked and that it is satisfactory of the law.
These risks can be all identified in different places in a business.
As these risks are dangerous to the employee, the employer or the general public these risks can take place anytime and in anyplace.
Like the following if the risks are implemented then there can be different affects of the risk:
• Fire: The cause of fire can be dangerous. This type of risk can happen anywhere and cause many injuries and lots of damages. The employer and the employees have to make sure that they are able to identify fires, and that they know what to do if a fire happens.
• Accidents: Accidents can happen anywhere. The main places that accidents could happen are when there chemicals being used, when machinery is being used.
• Injuries due to accidents: There are many injuries caused through accidents they are as follows:
• Dust
• Noise
• Toxic fumes
• Asbestos inhalation
.
* The rate of fatal injury is higher to the self-employed than to employees. This reflects that proportionally more self-employed people than employees work in higher risk industries of agriculture and construction, and those rates of fatal injury are consistently higher for the self-employed than employees in agriculture and services.
* In 2011/12, there was a decrease of 14% in the number of fatal injuries to members of the public to 384 from 444 in 2009/10, when the highest numbers of fatal injuries
There are many different potential risks in to a business when it comes to health and safety. Businesses have to make sure that they protect the employees and the general public from the health and safety risks. The many risks that a business can be effected with are:
* Fire risks
* Accident risk
* Stress
* Injuries
These effect a business, because they have to make sure that every risks is thoroughly checked and that it is satisfactory of the law.
These risks can be all identified in different places in a business.
As these risks are dangerous to the employee, the employer or the general public these risks can take place anytime and in anyplace.
Like the following if the risks are implemented then there can be different affects of the risk:
• Fire: The cause of fire can be dangerous. This type of risk can happen anywhere and cause many injuries and lots of damages. The employer and the employees have to make sure that they are able to identify fires, and that they know what to do if a fire happens.
• Accidents: Accidents can happen anywhere. The main places that accidents could happen are when there chemicals being used, when machinery is being used.
• Injuries due to accidents: There are many injuries caused through accidents they are as follows:
• Dust
• Noise
• Toxic fumes
• Asbestos inhalation
.
* The rate of fatal injury is higher to the self-employed than to employees. This reflects that proportionally more self-employed people than employees work in higher risk industries of agriculture and construction, and those rates of fatal injury are consistently higher for the self-employed than employees in agriculture and services.
* In 2011/12, there was a decrease of 14% in the number of fatal injuries to members of the public to 384 from 444 in 2009/10, when the highest numbers of fatal injuries