What is the Health and Safety at Work Act 1974? The Health and Safety at Work Act 1974 sets out the general day to day activities within the Workplace‚ that employers or employees may face when they are working. It outlines the possible hazards and risks within the workplace‚ and ways to minimise that risk or prevent the incident from recurring. This health and safety law has been reviewed in 1994 and again in 1999 and says that good management and common sense is what is needed to be able to
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HEALTH and SAFETY: Professional Discussion and Questions and Answers Q 1: Who do you think are at risk within your work environment? A: The staff‚ individuals who live in the bungalow‚ visitors and other contracted people/ workers who come to work from outside. Q: 2: what measures are there/ or have you in place for the individuals before working with them? A: All the individuals are assessed and have risk assessments written up for them for all their daily living activities
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Occupational Health and Safety Questions 1. (15 marks) The TLV for carbon monoxide is 35ppm. Define the terms TLV and ppm and calculate them for the following example: Answer: TVL = Term for airborne concentration of a substance‚ below which all workers are believed to be protected while exposed to it day after day for 8-hour periods. PPM = Concentration by volume of one part of a gas‚ or by weight of a liquid or solid‚ per million parts of air or liquid. A mechanic in
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I have chosen these responses safety‚ security‚ seeking help‚ serious injuries and alerting for help and have them in this order because they are in order of top priority to help the casualty who has been hit by a car outside the residential care home. I chose to have safety as top priority response as it is really important that the casualty and your safety is the number one priority in dealing with the accident if it is on a dangerous and busy road for example. I then chose to have security as
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ASSIGNMENT 1: a) Health & Safety at Work Act 1974 (HASAWA) An Act to make further provision for securing the health‚ safety and welfare of persons at work‚ for protecting others against risks to health or safety in connection with the activities of persons at work‚ for controlling the keeping and use and preventing the unlawful acquisition‚ possession and use of dangerous substances‚ and for controlling certain emissions into the atmosphere; to make further provision with respect to the employment
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Safety Construction Practices A construction site of any type can be a very dangerous environment if safety rules are not followed. An employee who is injured on the work site will draw worker’s compensation and drive the rates up for his employer‚ not to mention having a lower income while recovering. This also puts pressure on the other workers to complete a job with one less employee‚ and the same pressure is conveyed to the company in order to reach completion deadlines. Accidents in the construction
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1.1 Describe the factors to take in account when planning healthy and safe indoor and outdoor environments and services. According to me while planning healthy and safe indoor and outdoor environments and services‚ there are various factors which should be taken into consideration. Most important is that before starting any learning activity‚ whether its indoor or outdoor we should always make sure that the environment is free of any hazards and that children will be able to work safely. As there
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have these three basic priorities listed by importance: 1.3.1 Life Safety and Personal Protection. The most important thing to accomplish in any fire incident is to protect life and avoid injury. Property‚ product‚ processes and material can be replaced and rebuilt. Human life and health is most precious and cannot be replaced. If nothing else is accomplished in a fire incident other than the complete safety of all persons involved‚ then the first and most important goal in a response
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Before heading to Rottnest‚ we took part in a numerous amount go safety practices‚ ensuring and preparing us for our day trip to Rottnest. Safety practises that we talked about‚ and practised included equalising ears to prevent burst and painful eardrums‚ 100 metre swim test‚ buddy systems‚ placing out a dive flag‚ underwater communication/hand signals‚ 15 minutes of treading water and of course being informed of the marine life‚ environment and activities that we will be experience on our trip.
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Monitor and Maintain Health and Safety Practice in the Salon Assignment. Abigail Davies Sarah Wilkinson Introduction I will be talking about how to carry out a risk assessment and how to maintain health and safety within a salon. I will be able to explain the different procedures of carrying out a risk assessment and the importance of making sure the staff have support and knowledge of health and safety. I will be able to clarify the different types of security breaches that will include
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