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- 1. AMR212 Health & Safety In The Workplace Risk Assessment David Smith
- 3. Management of Health and Safety at Work Regulations 1999, now HSG65. • Regulations set out broad general duties applying to all work activities. • Primary aim is to improve health and safety management. • Makes explicit what is required by employers under the health HASAWA 1974. • Main provisions are to encourage a systematic and better organised approach to dealing with health and safety.
- 4. The MHSW Regulations Require You To • Assess risks to health and safety of your own employees and anyone else who maybe affected by your work activity. • The main aim of this is to identify the necessary preventative measures, employers with five or more employees will have to record the significant findings of the assessment. • Apply the principles of prevention.
- 5. The Principles Of Prevention • Avoid risks • Evaluation of unavoidable risks • Combating risk at source • Adapting the work to the individual • Adapting the technical process • Eliminating or reducing hazards • Applying a coherent prevention policy • Using collective not individual measures • Giving appropriate instruction.
- 6. The MHSW Regulations Require You To • Make arrangements for putting into practice the health and safety measures following from risk assessment, they must cover planning, organisation, control, monitoring and review. • Provide appropriate health surveillance. • Appoint a competent person.
- 7. Assessment Includes • Identifying hazards present in work activities and plant layout. • Evaluating risks, taking into account whatever precautions are already being taken. • Taking action • NB There are no hard and fast rules on how to undertake a risk assessment.
- 8. 5 Steps To Risk Assessment • Identify hazards • Who could be harmed • Is the risk adequately controlled (take into account the current control measures) • What further action is necessary • Record.
- 9. Hazard Checklist Work environment Weather Ventilation Lighting Temperature Ergonomics Human factors Hazard Checklist Workplace Fall from heights Fall into hazards Falling objects Confined spaces Stored items Slips/trips Collapse of structure Mechanical handling
- 10. Hazard Checklist Machinery Entanglement Abrasion Cutting Crushing Shearing Ejection Drawing in Puncture Impact Hazard Checklist Agents Hazardous substances Noise Radiation Vibration Manual handling
- 11. Hazard Checklist Stored Energy Fire or Explosion Pressure systems Electricity Hazard Checklist Also Consider Failure of plant and systems Release of stored substances Unsuitable equipment Unsafe systems of work Failure of energy supplies
- 12. Hazard Checklist Stored Energy Fire or Explosion Pressure systems Electricity Hazard Checklist Also Consider Failure of plant and systems Release of stored substances Unsuitable equipment Unsafe systems of work Failure of energy supplies
- 13. When Things Go Wrong The de Havilland DH 106 Comet was the world's first commercial jetliner. A year after entering commercial service, the Comets began suffering problems, with three of them breaking up during mid-flight in well-publicised accidents. Why? Two of these were found to be caused by catastrophic failure resulting from metal fatigue in the airframes. Design flaws, including dangerous stresses at the corners of the square windows and installation methods, were ultimately identified.
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