Health and Safety made easy!

An introduction to Workplace Health and Safety

Health & Safety Simplified1. How we can help you?

2. Who can help with your health and safety obligations

3. Write a health and safety policy

4. Manage your workplace risks?

5. Advise your employees

6. Clear information and training

7. Provide the right facilities for your businesses requirements

8. Handling First Aid, Accidents and illness in your workplace

9. The Health and Safety Law Poster

10. The right insurance for your workplace

11. Training Advice

How we can help you?1. A simple guide to basic health and safety in the workplace and what to

consider

2. Health and Safety doesn’t need to be complicated

3. We aim to assist you in complying with the law and managing your health

and safety requirements

4. Most businesses will only need to carry out a basic set of tasks

5. We will provide you with some guidance on how this basic tasks can be

carried out.

Decide who can help with your health and safety obligations

1. An employer must appoint a competent person to carry out their health and

safety obligations.

2. By competent, they should possess the necessary skills, knowledge and

experience to manage health and safety

3. Your choices are therefore one or a combination of yourself, an employee(s)

or a suitable external third party

4. Its possible to manage internally with ease but if further confidence is

required an external third party for advice and support can be used as well

5. Deciding what help you need is essential in order to decide what you need

to meet your requirements.

How to write your health and safety policy

1. If you have more than 5 employees, you must have a health and safety

policy

2. The policy does not have to be complicated

3. There are several resources for writing health and safety policies

4. Our health and safety software title provides basic health and safety policies

you can simply re-write and re-brand as word documents.

5. For a price of £49.99 for this ready to use documents and training plus other

resources, its simply a no brainer!

How to manage your workplace risks?Risk Assessment in 5 Steps

1. Identify your workplace hazards

2. Decide who could potentially be harmed and how

3. Make an evaluation of the risks and decide on precautions to make

4. Make a record of your findings

5. Follow up with a review of your assessment and update if necessary.

(further training can be found here)

Advice: Don’t over complicate the process.

In most cases your company will be aware of the risks and so control measures

can be applied with ease.

(for templates, please see our workplace risk assessment software )

Advise your employees1. All employees must be advised on health and safety

2. This should involve:

• the work they do and related health and safety

• how workplace risks are controlled

• Relevant information and training

3. H&S is two way and allowing concerns to be raised only assists in making

better decisions on H&S requirements

Clear information and training1. Your workforce should know how to work in a safe way, without any risk to

their health.

2. As a employer, you must instruct, inform and provide suitable training for

your employees.

3. This includes any contractors and self employed persons.

4. Information should include:

a) Potential hazards they face

b) Measures in place to handle those hazards/risks

c) How to follow emergency procedures in such an event.

5. Ask your employees for feedback on training.

6. Keep a record of all training.

Provide the right facilities for your businesses requirements

• You must protect the safety and health of everyone in your workplace, including people with disabilities, and provide welfare facilities for your employees.

Basic things you need to consider are outlined below.

Welfare facilities For your employees' well-being you need to provide:• toilets and hand basins, with soap and towels or a hand-dryer;• drinking water; • a place to store clothing (and somewhere to change if special clothing is

worn for work); • somewhere to rest and eat meals.

(ref: HSE.gov.uk)

Provide the right facilities for your businesses requirements

Health issues

• To have a healthy working environment, make sure there is:

good ventilation – a supply of fresh, clean air drawn from outside or a

ventilation system;

• a reasonable working temperature (usually at least 16°C, or 13°C for

strenuous work, unless other laws require lower temperatures);

• lighting suitable for the work being carried out;

• enough room space and suitable workstations and seating;

• a clean workplace with appropriate waste containers.

Provide the right facilities for your businesses requirements

Safety issues

To keep your workplace safe you must:

• properly maintain your premises and work equipment;

• keep floors and traffic routes free from obstruction;

• have windows that can be opened and also cleaned safely;

• make sure that any transparent (eg glass) doors or walls are protected or

made of safety material.

(ref: HSE.gov.uk)

How to handle First Aid, Accidents and illness in your workplace

• You need suitable first aid for your business.

• Employer responsible for employees immediate welfare if they take ill or are

injured at work.

• Accidents / injuries happen at any time. Good first aid facilities can prevent

minor injuries becoming major injuries.

• Your arrangements depend on your workplace requirements.

How to handle First Aid, Accidents and illness in your workplace

Minimum requirements:

• A suitably stocked first aid box

• An appointed first aider to take charge of arrangements

• Information for all employees giving details of first aid arrangements(HSE UK Advice)

For information on how to suitable stock first aid boxes, please click here

We also provide first aid posters, should you need

The Health and Safety Law Poster• Every workplace should display The Health and Safety Law Poster or each

employees should have the equivalent pocket card

• The poster should be displayed somewhere clear where everyone will see it.

• This outlines British Health and Safety laws and what is expected of

employers/employees.

Ensure you have the right insurance for your workplace

1. If you have employees you’re likely going to need employers liability

insurance

2. If an employee is ill or injured at work, they may claim compensation.

3. Employees liability will help you cover any potential cost.

Further details can be found here

Training Advice1. Assess your workplace requirements.

2. Gain third party advice from consultants or the HSE

3. We provide a comprehensive resource of health and safety dvds to assist

health and safety managers, consultants with their training aide

requirements.

4. If you need training resources, please click the link above.