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By
Peter Ellis, BSc (Hons), MIOSH, RSP, Independent Health and Safety Consultant, U.K.
Alan St John Holt, FIOSH, RSP, Head of Safety, Royal Mail Group, U.K.
Jaan Stanton, BSc (Hons), Senior Environmental Health Officer, Norwich City Council, U.K.
Description
Risk assessment is the key to successful management of health and safety at work. Risk assessments are carried out in order to quantify
and evaluate the significance of workplace hazards so that appropriate control measures can be put in place.
Usually, a written record
of the assessment is required, detailing the following information:
* The hazards – and how much risk is associated.
* The risk – with
appropriate control measures.
* Deadlines – to follow-up the risk assessment to ensure the risk is managed.
Failure to carry out risk
assessments – punishable by law – is often due to lack of a suitable risk assessment system. Tolley?s Risk Assessment Workbook – Utilities provides that system, both in the form of key background information on how to carry out a risk assessment – understanding
relevant legislation and regulations – but most importantly by providing:
* Checklists – highlighting key industry-specific hazards and
control measures.
* Questionnaires – highlighting key questions the risk assessor should ask when analysing the risk posed by the hazard.
* Action Plans – to ensure the risk assessment is followed up and completed.
The Workbook offers a practical risk assessment system:
it shows you how to comply with the law and gives you the foundations of a logical procedure that can be understood easily, put into
placed quickly where necessary and adapted to your organisation?s needs.
Tolley?s Risk Assessment Workbooks is a series
of practical Workbooks providing you with all the information you need to conduct risk assessments in industry-specific areas including:
Manufacturing, Retail, Leisure, Education, Offices, and Construction. A special Risk Assessment Workbook on Stress has also been developed
in order to facilitate management of this issue which is of key concern to all organisations.
Audience
Health and safety professionals, managers and directors of small to medium-sized companies.
Contents
PART 1
Risk Assessment:
Introduction: Terminology; Control measures; Putting it all together; Rating
the risks.
Overview of the law regarding risk assessment: Health and Safety at Work etc Act 1974; Management of Health and Safety at
Work Regulations 1999; Specific risk assessment legislation summaries; The need to comply; Table of legislation; Guidance material.
How
to use the workbook and methodology: Essential steps in risk assessment; Action plan; Special cases – stress; Special cases – fire; Legal
summary.
Risk assessment – the action plan.
Risk Assessment in Utility Industries:
Risk assessment requirements: Risk
assessment – young persons and new or expectant mothers; Approved codes of practice and guidelines; Risk assessment criteria in utility
industries.
Industry-specific terminology.
Application of legislation in utilities – case studies: Sewage treatment works; Electricity
company; Telecommunications company; Worked example.
Health and safety references.
PART 2
Section A – Machinery
and Equipment:
Engineering Workshop: Drill, lathe, milling machine and similar; Electrical hand tools; Grinding wheels; Press
bending machine, guillotine etc; CNC machine; Welding.
General Machinery.
General Equipment.
Access Equipment: Ladders, stepladders and
vertical ladders; Powered access equipment; Mobile tower scaffolds.
Cranes and Lifting Table: Cranes; Lifting tackle.
Section
B – Transport:
Handling equipment.
Fleet Transport: Loading bay vehicles; Tyres, payload, seat belts; Movement of vehicles on
site; Movement of vehicles off site.
Section C – Warehousing/storage:
Stores.
Section D – Hazardous Substances:
Substances Hazardous to Health: Harmful, irritant, corrosive or toxic; Asbestos; Lead; General (non-specific dusts); Biological agents;
Carcinogens; Respiratory sensitisers, eg solder/welding fumes/isocyanates.Flammable and Explosive Substances: Flammable solids and dusts;
Flammable gases, eg methane (natural gas), acetylene, propane and butane; Flammable liquids; Explosive and oxidising substances.
Section
E – Manual Handling:
The load to be handled.
The handling task.
The working environment.
Individual capability.
Section
F – Electrical Safety:
General Premises Safety with Electrical Systems: Day to day safety around electrical equipment; Working
on or near electrical equipment or systems.
Electric welding.
Section G – Fire and Explosion:
Sources of Ignition and
Combustible Materials.
Means of Escape and Structural Features.
Fire Detection and Structural Features.
Fire Fighting Equipment.
Section
H – Noise and Vibration:
Noise.
Vibration.
Section I – Confined Spaces:
Confined Spaces.
Section J – Radiation:
Ionising Radiation.
Optical Radiation.
Electromagnetic Fields (EMFs).
Section K – Lone Working:
Lone Working.
Section L – Display Screen Equipment (DSE):
Industrial DSE.
Office-based DSE.
Section M – Pregnant
Workers:
New and Expectant Mothers.
Section N – Accidents and First-Aid:
Reducing Risks of Source: Using Accident
Records; Improving working procedures.
Providing First-Aid Personnel: First-aid provision – first-aiders; First-aid provision – appointed
persons.
Providing First-Aid Equipment and Facilities: First-aid boxes; First-aid rooms.
Section O – Personal Protective Equipment:
The Provision of PPE.
Section P – The Working Environment:
Physical Hazards: Noise; Space; Workstations and seating;
Sick building syndrome (SBS); Slips, trips and falls.
Welfare Facilities: Sanitary conveniences, washing facilities and drinking water;
Accommodation and facilities for clothing; Refreshment services and rest facilities; Smoking at work.
The Provision and Maintenance of
a Safe Working Environment.
Action Plan.
| Bibliographic details |
Spiral Bound, 184 pages, publication date: NOV-2003
ISBN-13: 978-0-7545-2538-7
ISBN-10: 0-7545-2538-4
Imprint: BUTTERWORTH HEINEMANN
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