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The Health and Safety At Work Act 1974 imposes very strict rules on owners, partners, directors and employers. Unlike other responsibilities these obligations cannot be contracted out. The primary document that underpins all health safety in the workplace, is a coherent safety policy and procedure document. This is required to prove company policy commitment and to allow interested parties to refer to detail and audit safety management. Careful consideration of the work area can reduce risk and eliminate hazards at source. All nominated and statutory duty holders will be named and identified to allow proper regulation of the work place. The recent legislation and newer regulations require employers and staff to prove and demonstrate competance and to operate sensible measures to reduce risks or hazards. Mature companies may not be aware of the dramatic changes over the past years, and safety officers may have been promoted or moved on recently, this is not a welcome development. This can leave an obvious vacuum in terms of safety management, which can be dangerous. Highly complex undertakings can also harbour poor communication between departments, and this can also lead to a lack of basic information and compliance to health or safety or risk assessment. Bad advice can sometimes cost a company badly needed resources, ill informed managers can at times jump to costly conclusions to save a prosecution or injury claim. Our practice can solve many of these problems for you, by identifying work related illness or disability promptly staff like computer operators can be retrained or mentored to help themselves in the majority of cases. Computer operators can sometimes feel unloved or put upon, repetitive operations can sometimes engender many negative thoughts whilst staff are working. Consideration of the relevant problems can sometimes improve productivity and improve staff morale. Improving mutual respect at the work face will be win-win situation for all persons concerned. The creation and implementation of good safety policies can reap intangible benefits for many undertakings. Good staff relations, less sickness and absenteeism can be a spin off benefit of practical safety management. The H.S.E at present is promoting the philosophy that good business can be linked to good health and safety arrangements, and we wholeheartedly endorse this ethos.
The ultimate aim of P.H.&S is to help your enterprise or partnership integrate good practice at a sensible cost whilst helping you to train your staff and change their workplace for the better . To lessen the risk of prosecution or litigation we can offer you tried and tested methods to regulate and audit your operations. In time we would like to feel that your company will not need to rely on outside consultants as we steer you and your staff to a more regulated approach to safety compliance. There is not an employer in existence that can operate without risk or in a fault free manner, we feel that by risk assessing your work area and identifying hazards that can appear suddenly, you can definitely safeguard your long term well being.
As we approach the next century work related illness and disability will become ever more prevalent, to safeguard the viability of your company we earnestly advise you to act now to help you and to your staff enjoy the future together. We will be happy to audit and consider your operations at little or no cost to assess you safety management needs. Risk assessment of your work operations or work stations can be accomplished very quickly. We can create and produce a health and safety policy in partnership with your duty holders in a matter of days. If you as a senior partner, director, or manager have a concern about where your company is with regard to managing health and safety please call Neal Etchells ( Click Here To Form-Mail ) and I will be pleased to help your enterprise or partnership improve its profit generation and overall risk management.
UNUSUAL SAFETY WALLCHARTS
from Heath Technical Services OF 6 SANDFIELD GARDENS THORNTON HEATH SURREY CR7 8AR TEL/FAX +44 (0) 20 8653 4648
- HEATH TECHNICAL SERVICES is a developing publishing company that specialises in unusual safety wall posters. The brainchild of Industrial journalist Stan Allen these wall posters are ever developing with a range aimed at the Construction Industry which is being developed in conjunction with Neal Etchells of Professional Health & Safety Consultants also of Thornton Heath. The latest safety "shouter" is aimed at Keeping Children off Building Sites.
- The current range includes SAFETY TIPS FOR FORKLIFT DRIVERS, a two colour A3 wall chart which acts as a vital memory jerker and a constant reminder to make sure that forklift trucks are used to their full capacity and contribute more to the profit of any company.
- MANUAL HANDLING SAFETY HINTS. Responsible companies will have already carried out a full assessment of many of its manual handling operations but there is still a need to continually remind workers of their responsibility when carrying out manual handling jobs. One effective way to do this is through a most useful wallchart which covers nine vital areas and provides valuable hints to safer manual handling operations. It is A2 in size and includes many excellent examples of how difficult and awkward loads can be handled by manual means.
- PCD MALTRON has sponsored a unique instructional A3 wall chart for keyboard users in the Safety Point series. Entitled GOOD KEYBOARD PRACTICE it lists many ways to reduce the everyday stress of working on a keyboard and at a display screen. It presents valuable advice from the Health and Safety (Display Screen Equipment) Regulations 1992) and tells what can be done immediately in the case of keyboard- induced repetitive strain injury /work related upper limb disorder (RSI/WRULD).
- FIRST AID IN THE EVENT OF AN ELECTRIC SHOCK (A3) comprises two distinct sections. The first deals with the source of the accident (how to isolate the casualty from the electric source) while the second tells and shows what to do after the electric source has been isolated. It also includes vital resuscitation advice. Brimming with good advice, FIRST AID IN THE EVENT OF AN ELECTRIC SHOCK is designed to Safety Point's established high standards of clarity and "instant read values".
- SAFETY TIPS FOR THE LOADING BAY is an A2 sized wallchart full of good advice for those working in loading bays and has been published in association with Stokvis, a leading light in the supply and installation of all that is needed to operate a safe loading bay.
- FIRST AID IN THE EVENT OF A HEART ATTACK (A2)is an essential precaution for any workplace and has the approval of the St John Ambulance. It tells what you can do, and more importantly what you cannot do and includes a plain man's guide to resuscitation.
- PPE SAFETY POSTER FOR BUILDING/CONSTRUCTION INDUSTRY. The latest figures from the Health and Safety Commission show that in one year the UK suffered over 150,000 injuries to employees which included 245 fatalities. The Construction industry is top of the list with around nine fatalities per 100,000 employees and around 225 non-fatal major injuries per 100,000 employees. And the over-3-day injury rate for the construction industry is quoted at just over 1,000 per 100,000 employees
- With these problems in mind, the SAFETY POINT range has just been extended by the FIRST in a Building and Construction Series. It is designed to make the construction and building site a safer place and covers the vital area of PERSONAL PROTECTION EQUIPMENT. It is a two colour A3 sized poster which highlights the need to use the correct personal protective equipment such as helmets, goggles, boots, fluorescent waistcoats and provides an ongoing active and powerful reminder to workers who "forget" or "can't be bothered" to protect themselves from the many dangers on construction and building sites.
- This range of SAFETY POINT safety wallcharts and posters has just been augmented by two FIRE wallcharts. One covering Prevention and Control and the second on Control.
- Building sites always appear to be splendid ready-made adventure playground for children who are most ingenious in their efforts to gain access. A brand new safety poster in the established SAFETY POINT range draws the attention of construction workers to the danger of letting children sneak on to a site when unattended.
- CARELESS KEN'S DEBUT IN NEW SAFETY POSTER. The established Safety Point range of safety posters has just been extended by the third in a BUILDING and CONSTRUCTION Series. The poster is designed to make the construction and building site and/or INDUSTRY in general a safer place and covers the vital area of Personal Protective Equipment by reminding of the need to wear Reflective clothing.
- Based on the adventures of "Careless Ken" it promotes the use of bright reflective protective jackets etc by illustrating what can happen if such clothing is not worn. Careless Ken is seen being carried from a site covered with a large vehicle's tyre marks and still expressing his belief that "wearing reflective clothing makes you look stupid.
- It provides an ongoing amusing, active and powerful reminder to workers who "forget" or "can't be bothered" to protect themselves from the many dangers on construction and building sites.
- All the wall charts and posters in the Safety Point range are heavy duty encapsulated in heavy duty plastics to withstand wear and tear in Industry, the Office and the Construction site. Unit costs of the Industrial range is are £9.75. [Generous discounts apply to multiple or mix and match orders.]
- Contact Stan Allen at HEATH TECHNICAL SERVICES, 6 Sandfield Gardens, Thornton Heath, Surrey CR7 8AR Tel/Fax: +44 (0) 20 8653 4648 or click here to Form-Mail him with your order
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