.
The most common categories risk and causes accidents work are:
● slips, trips and falls
● manual handling, that moving objects hand
● using equipment, machinery tools
● storage goods and materials which then become unstable
● fire
● electricity
● mechanical handling.Basic Electrical Installation Work
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Health and safety risks, precautions and procedures
In Chapter this book, looked some the health and safety rules
and regulations. particular, now know that the Health and Safety
at Work Act the most important piece recent legislation, because it
places responsibilities for safety work both employers and employ-
ees. know what the regula-
tions say about the control substances, which might hazardous to
our health work, because briefly looked the COSHH Regulations
2002 Chapter also know that there risk health and safety at
work our employer must provide personal protective equipment (PPE) free
of charge, for use that are safe work. mistake believe that these things only happen
in dangerous occupations such deep-sea diving, mining and quarry-
ing, fishing industry, tunnelling and fire fighting that only happens in
exceptional circumstances such would never happen your workplace.
Precautions taken control risks:
● eliminate the cause
● substitute procedure product with less risk
● enclose the dangerous situation
● put guards around the hazard
● use safe systems work
● supervise, train and give information staff
● the hazard cannot removed minimized then provide PPE.
This not the case. addition, there are about 158,000 non-
fatal injuries reported the Health and Safety Executive (HSE) each year
and estimated 2. The law place, we
all apply the principles health and safety work and always wear the
appropriate PPE, what are the risks? Well, getting injured work not
a pleasant subject think about but each year about 300 people Great
Britain lose their lives work. Some basic thinking and acting beforehand could have
prevented most these accident statistics from happening.2 million people suffer ill health caused by, made
worse by, work. This responsibility enforceable law
