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Health and Safety Induction


Training

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Topics covered in Induction
• H&S Law Policy/H&S Representatives
• Accident/Incident Reporting
• First Aid Facilities
• PPE (Personal Protective Footwear, Clothing & Equipment)
• Fire Evacuation Procedure/Emergency Exits/Assembly Points
• C.O.S.H.H. (Chemical/Hazardous Materials)
• Manual Handing

Specific Site Risks


a) Electricity
b) Transport, Internal and External
c) Hand Arm Vibration

• Signage
• Risk Assessments
• Display Screen Equipment
• Welfare Facilities

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Defining Health and Safety
• Health is defined as both physical and mental
wellbeing.

• Ill health can include physical injuries and


medical ailments.

• Safety is the control of unplanned events.


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Overall Aims & Objectives of
Health & Safety Induction
• To ensure safety requirements are appreciated by all
employees of “Your Company Name”

• To enable you to identify hazards that you are exposed


to and control these hazards.

• To enable you to seek positive improvements in your


own health & safety through education.

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Why Are We Doing This?
• Humane - An employee should not have to expect that by coming to work
they are risking life or limb, and nor should others affected by their
undertaking.

• Economic - legal fees, fines, compensatory damages, investigation time, lost


production, lost goodwill from the workforce, and lost goodwill from
customers.

• Legal - We have a duty under the law to ensure, so far as is reasonably


practicable, the health, safety and welfare at work of all our employees.

In other words, the degree of risk in a particular job or workplace needs to be


balanced against time, trouble, cost and the physical difficulty of taking
measures to avoid or reduce the risk. What the law requires here is what good
management and common sense would lead you to do anyway: that is, to look
at what the risks are and take sensible measures to tackle them.

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What is Health & Safety?
• No accidents.

• Absence of disease and illness.

• Physical and mental wellbeing.

“Accident prevention is everyone's responsibility”

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The Health & Safety at Work
etc Act 1974
Employers MUST so far as is reasonably practicable:

• Ensure the Health, Safety & Welfare of all its


employees.
• Provide a written statement of their Health &
Safety policy.
• Consult with employees representatives.

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Policy

Info on your companies


policy

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The Health & Safety at Work
etc Act 1974
Employees MUST so far as is reasonably practicable:
• Take reasonable care of their own Health & Safety.
• Take reasonable care for the Health and Safety of
anyone who may be affected by their own acts or
omissions.
• Co-operate with their employer to enable the
fulfilment of statutory obligations.

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How Do We Handle Health &
Safety?
• Risk Assessments

• Safe Ways of Working

• Control Measures

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