23 Health And Safety Flashcards
Safe working practices
What should employers ensure, 8 things
TIP: workplace, first aid, storage, training, equipment, machinery, signs, report
Employers should ensure the following:
Workplace is safe (free from risks, extraction) Welfare facilities provided (first aid) Dangerous items stored safely Training, info, supervision given PPE provided Machinery has guards, and is maintained Appropriate signage Accident reporting systems in place (RIDDOR reporting of injuries and diseases and dangerous occurrence regulation)
What should employers ensure, 4 things
What is the HSE. What is the 2 main things that they do.
Take care of themselves + others
Use ppe
Use machinery in accordance with training
Report accidents or near miss
The Health and Safety Executive is a national independant watchdog for work related health, safety and illness
It helps employers meet H&S regulations
Investigate accidents in workplaces
Employers must comply with regulation to protect employees in manufacturing industry
Health and safety at work act 1974
What is it and what does it mean employees must ensure
As part of this what must employers do
HSWA is the main legislation for British H&S
So all employers must ensure that all employees AND VISITORS are protected in terms of H&S
Compliance with the HSWA includes Risk assessments and adopting safety measures
COSHH 2002
To comply, what must employers do
Give the 3 main groups of harmful substances and examples of each
How can hazardous substances be easily identified and by what regulations are they regulated by
Control of substances hazardous to health regulation
To comply, employers need to PREVENT, REDUCE or CONTROL employees exposure to harmful substances
Harmful substances include:
Paints, varnish, cleaning agent, adhesives
Fumes (from welding soldering brazing)
Air born particles (dust from cutting timber)
Hazardous substances will have a symbol that meets the CLP regulations (classification labelling and packaging). These have pictograms, easily identifiable
Safe working practices
What are the 6 main working practices
Tip: train, obvs, guard, clean area, procedures, trip
Primarily same for schools colleges and industry
All serve to keep person and ppl around safe
Don’t use machinery unless trained
Use ppe
All guards should be used
Work areas should be kept clean, free of hazards, spillages reported
Everyone must be aware of emergency procedure
Walkways kept clear, no trip hazards
Incidents must be reported
Safe working practices
What additional measures used in industry, 3
Tip: movement of goods, forklift trucks, RSI
Safety precautions
If there are movement of goods around factory floor, there can be designated safe zones or walkways
Forklift trucks have flashing light and reverse alarms
Job rotation may be used so workers not at risk of repetitive strain injury RSI, or injury caused by lapse of concentration from doing same task again
Precautions:
Action carried out in advance to protect against possible danger or injury
Eg using PPE and extraction when sanding
Precautions also include use of signage
Risk assessment
Do employers have to do these?
What must it consider, 2 main things
Table: page 88
What are the hazard, potential harm, risk and control measure of cutting wood on a band saw
Employer must do these by law. These should be recorded in establishment with 5+ ppl.
It must consider what may cause harm and if reasonable steps are being done to prevent it
Not all risks can be eliminated, but must be minimised
Look at table in page 88 - process, hazard, harm, risk level and control, review date
Try do that for cutting wood on a band saw
Process - band saw
Potential Harm - to machine operator and ppl in vicinity
Risk and control measure - risk medium, provide training, manual, guards, push stick, extraction z ventilation, PPE goggles, signage and mark out safe zones in vicinity
Safety in products and services to the customer
What is there out there to protect users
What are some of the requirements that users are entitled to
Designers must obvs consider safety of user
To protect the User, there are many legislations are standards that have requirements the p. must meet
This include safety level, right to get money back if goods are faulty, do not perform as claimed
Legislation
Consumer rights act 2015
What does it do
What kind of products does it also cover and what act does it replace
The act is split into 3 parts
1 - concerns consumer contracts for goods, digital content and services:
What 6 things does this legislation say that goods, services or digital content must be.
Tips: quality, urpose, match, repair, compensate
2 - concerns unfair terms:
What are the 2 things that this act says about terms and fee and services.
3 - concerns other miscellaneous provisions eg letting agencies
Consumer rights act 2015 - safeguards consumer from faulty products by giving them rights. The act includes purchase of digital goods and combines legislation of previous act and replaced sales of good act 1979.
1 - consumer contracts for goods, digital content and services.
Goods must be satisfactory quality
Must be fit for purpose
Must be as described and match model
Right to reject goods and right to repair or replacement
Covers digital content too - so same points for digital content above
Compensation for damage to device other other digital content.
2 - unfair terms:
Requirement for contract terms and notices to be fair
Requirement for transparency of fees and services
BSI Who are they and who do they work with What do they make and what does that ensure What is a standard What is the bsi kitemark
The British standards institution
BSI works with gov and industry to make standards to ensure p.s are safe and fit for purpose
A standard - Is a published document that shows an agreed way of doing something, provides assurance of consistently reliable and safe products
BSI kitemark is a quality mark
Used on 100s of p.s from cycle helmets to plugs to manhole covers
Safety of toys
What 8 things must toy manufactures do to comply with the safety of toys regulations
Tip: obvs, assess, CE, manual, test, record, ortho, markings
Manufacturers of kids toys must comply with Toys Safety Regulations 2011, part of European Toy Safety Directive AND British Standard
So they must:
Make sure that toy complies with safety requirements
Carry out safety assessment
Hard - Demonstrate that an applicatable conformity assessment procedure has been followed and put CE mark
Ensure it has instructions for safe use
Do tests and make non compliant toys comply
Investigate + record complaints made, keep non compliant and recalled toys registered
Draw technical document and keep it for 10 y
Identify toy and manufacture on packaging
Lion mark
What is the BTHA and what does the lion mark tell the consumer about the p.
What does the lion mark say about the manufacture
What code of conducts must the members adhere to, 4
Tip: ethical 2, green, play
BTHA - The British toy and hobby association b developed Lion Mark to show consumer that toy is safe and has quality in mind
It shows toy has been made by members of the btha who adhere to code of practice eg:
- includes rules covering ethical goods
- ban on counterfeit goods
- commitment to improving Sustainability
- desire to promote value of play
