Buch, Englisch, 192 Seiten, Format (B × H): 105 mm x 173 mm, Gewicht: 200 g
Buch, Englisch, 192 Seiten, Format (B × H): 105 mm x 173 mm, Gewicht: 200 g
ISBN: 978-1-84569-499-9
Verlag: Elsevier Science
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Weitere Infos & Material
- The Quick Guide Series
- Invitation to New Authors
- Introduction
- Your 10 Minute A-Z Guide to Health and Safety
- Chapter 1: Health and Safety Legislation - How Much is There? - Publisher Summary
- 1.1 Some of the other legislation
- 1.2 Other sources of information
- Chapter 2: Enforcement and the Legal Situation - Publisher Summary
- 2.1 Who enforces the laws and regulations?
- 2.2 What is the purpose of enforcement and how is it done?
- 2.3 Provision of information and advice
- 2.4 Proportionality (action proportional to the risk)
- 2.5 Improvement notices and prohibition notices - what are they?
- 2.6 Reasonably practicable - what does this mean?
- 2.7 Who will receive the most attention from enforcing authorities?
- Chapter 3: Health and Safety. so What Business are You in? - Publisher Summary
- 3.1 Business survival
- 3.2 Good H&S should be good business
- 3.3 As well as hurting people, accidents and injuries cost the business
- 3.4 If you think training is expensive - try ignorance
- 3.5 What are the most common accidents and causes of injury?
- Chapter 4: The Health and Safety at Work Act 1974 (HSW Act) and What it Means - Publisher Summary
- 4.1 Basic concepts and duties
- 4.2 Duties of employers to employees
- 4.3 Duties of employers (and self-employed) to others
- 4.4 Duties of employees
- 4.5 Consultation with employees
- 4.6 Duties to provide safety equipment or PPE
- 4.7 Duties of manufacturers
- 4.8 Powers given to the enforcing authorities
- 4.9 What does 'at work' mean?
- 4.10 Management of H&S regulations - what are they?
- Chapter 5: Risks and Risk Assessments - What are They? - Publisher Summary
- 5.1 Everyday risks
- 5.2 Risk - what do we mean?
- 5.3 Risk assessments - what are they?
- Chapter 6: Health, Safety and Welfare Requirements in the Workplace - Publisher Summary
- 6.1 What are the applicable regulations?
- 6.2 What is a workplace?
- 6.3 The regulations and what they require you to do
- 6.4 Brief summary of the Construction Workplace Regulations
- 6.5 Enforcement
- 6.6 Regular tours of the workplace
- Chapter 7: Machinery and Other Work Equipment - Publisher Summary
- 7.1 What are the main regulations with which you have to comply?
- 7.2 What equipment is covered by these regulations?
- 7.3 How do you know that machines and equipment you buy are safe?
- 7.4 What do I have to maintain and inspect?
- 7.5 Instruction and training for use and safety
- 7.6 Stopping equipment and emergency stops
- 7.7 Guards and guarding
- 7.8 What to do about cleaning and maintenance
- Chapter 8: Pressure Plant and Equipment - Publisher Summary
- 8.1 What is pressure plant and equipment?
- 8.2 What is a relevant fluid?
- 8.3 Do the PSSR (Pressure Systems Safety Regulations) apply to me?
- 8.4 What do I have to do to comply with the regulations?
- 8.5 What is meant by safe operating limits?
- 8.6 What is a written scheme of examination?
- 8.7 Who is a competent person?
- Chapter 9: Lifting and Handling - Publisher Summary
- 9.1 Manual handling regulations
- 9.2 General guidelines for lifting, pushing and pulling
- 9.3 What to consider in a risk assessment and who does it?
- 9.4 Manual handling training and instruction
- 9.5 What about lifting equipment?
- Chapter 10: Noise - Publisher Summary
- 10.1 Noise at work
- 10.2 The regulations (the law) and what you have to do
- 10.3 Assessment of risk from noise and reduction of noise levels
- 10.4 Hearing protection and warning signs
- 10.5 Information and training
- 10.6 Health surveillance
- Chapter 11: Hazardous Substances - Publisher Summary
- 11.1 What is COSHH (Control of Substances Hazardous to Health)?
- 11.2 Which substances are hazardous to health?
- 11.3 If you have hazardous substances - what next?
- 11.4 Summary and conclusion
- Chapter 12: Electricity - Publisher Summary
- 12.1 Working with electricity
- 12.2 Which regulations do I have to comply with?
- 12.3 A summary of the main requirements and duties for users/owners
- 12.4 Employers' duties for work 'within their control'
- 12.5 What to do about portable equipment
- 12.6 What to do about isolations
- 12.7 Some good practices
- Chapter 13: Working at Height - Publisher Summary
- 13.1 The general situation and current regulations
- 13.2 What is work at height?
- 13.3 The main requirements of the regulations
- 13.4 What to do about working from ladders
- 13.5 What to do about fragile roofs
- 13.6 What to do about scaffolds and mobile access towers
- 13.7 What to do about falling objects
- Chapter 14: VDUs - Publisher Summary
- 14.1 Overview
- 14.2 The regulations
- 14.3 Do the VDU regulations apply to me?
- 14.4 What you have to do to comply with the regulations
- 14.5 Eye tests and provision of spectacles (required by Regulation 5)
- 14.6 Provision of information and training (required by Regulation 6)
- 14.7 Enforcement
- Chapter 15: What to do About Protecting Employees - Publisher Summary
- 15.1 First aid
- 15.2 Personal protective equipment
- 15.3 Working alone (lone working)
- 15.4 Emergency plans (like the fire drills)
- Chapter 16: Other Health and Safety Matters - Publisher Summary
- 16.1 Slips, trips and falls
- 16.2 Permits to work and lock off
- 16.3 Shift handover - do you have one?
- 16.4 Working in confined spaces - this is serious
- 16.5 RIDDOR and accident and injury reporting
- 16.6 Employee training records
- 16.7 Employee consultation on H&S matters
- 16.8 Other regulations
- Chapter 17: Will You be Prosecuted? - Publisher Summary
- 17.1 Investigation and the decision to prosecute
- 17.2 What events will trigger a prosecution?
- 17.3 Some examples of prosecutions
- 17.4 Prosecution under The Health and Safety at Work Act or other regulations
- 17.5 Who will prosecute?
- 17.6 What are the penalties?
- References
- Index
