IOSH Flashcards
Managing Safely
Moral
Legal
Financial
Managers as duty holders have responsibility and accountability for the health & safety standards
Assessing Risk
Hazard - something with the potential to cause harm
Hazardous Event - when someone or something interacts with the hazard and allows it to do harm
Risk - the likelihood of the hazardous event occurring in combination with the consequence of that event
Risk Assessment - the simple process of identifying hazards, evaluating risks and identifying controls to avoid or minimise those risks
5 Steps of Risk Assessment
Identify the hazards
Estimate the risks
Evaluate the risk
Record the Assessment
Review the Assessment
Controlling Risk
Identify Residual Risk
Risk Control Hierarchy -
Eliminate the hazard
Reduce the hazard
Prevent people coming into
contact with the hazard
Safe systems of work
PPE personal protection equipment
Reasonably Practicable
This means that if the cost
- time
- effort
- money
- inconvenience
Outweighs the benefit of the risk reduction, then it’s not reasonably practicable to use that risk control
Understanding Responsibilities
Expected to be able to identity and manage reasonably foreseeable risks
Common Knowledge
Industry Knowledge
Expect Knowledge
Criminal Law
Criminal Law is concerned with the punishment of breaches of statue Law by state in forms of fines and/or imprisonment
Civil Law
Civil Law is concerned with compensation for the victims of the accident that were caused by someone else’s negligence
3 Proofs or tests for negligence
Duty of care owed
Duty of care breached
Loss as a direct result of the breach
Civil Law principle of Contributory Negligence
Where the compensation paid to the claimant is reduced because they are partly to blame for their own injuries
Usually, the legal action must start within 3 years of the accident or when a person found that the injury was the fault of the employer
The claimant must show:
- That the defendant owed the person a duty of care
- That the duty of care was breached
- The the injury was caused by a breach of the duty
Vicarious Libility
Where the employer is held to be liable for the negligent acts of their employees which cause harm to others
Employers in the U.K. have a legal duty under the
Health and Safety at Work etc Act 1974 (HASWA)
Management of Health and Safety at Work Regulations 1999 (as amended)
Under the Management of Health and Safety at Work Regulations:
Additional general requirements are placed on employees to carry out assessments of reasonable foreseeable risks and implement risk controls so far as reasonably practicable.
2 difference types of Enforcement Notices can be used to enforce health and safety law
Improvement notices - that require the employer to make an improvement to a deadline
Prohibition notices, that require the employer to stop a particular high-risk activity
Key parts of health and safety management system (HSMS)
health and safety must be managed systematically using some form of safety management system based on the Plan, Do, Check, Act management cycle
Plan - Policy, Planning
Do - Risk profiling,
Implement plan
Act - Review performance, Learn
lessons
Check - Collect date, Measure
performanceUnderstanding Hazards
Common Hazards - what are common Hazards
What can you do about common Hazards -
Hazards generally fall into six broad groups:
Mechanical Physical Chemical Biological Environmental Organisation
Risk = Likelihood x Consequences
To reduce risk, you need to look at?
Reducing the likelihood of the hazardous event happening
Reducing the consequences of the hazardous event
Reducing both factors
Burden of Proof
Burden of Proof is an obligation to prove what is alleged
Duty of Care
Duty of Care is the legal requirement that employers must do everything reasonably practicable to protect others from harm
UK 2 main sources of law:
UK 2 main sources of law:
Statue
Common
2 types of law:
2 types of law:
Criminal
Civil
What is Statutory Law
What is Common Law
What is Statutory Law
What is Common Law
Statutory law is Criminal law
Common law is Civil law
Controlling Risk
List the 5 Hierarchy
The 5 Hierarchy is:
1, Eliminate the hazard
2, Reduce the hazard
3, Prevent people coming into contact
with the hazard
4, Introduce Safe systems of work
5, Provide PPE
5 Steps of a Risk Assessment
The 5 Steps of a Risk Assessment:
Step 1, Identify the hazards
Step 2, Estimate the risk
Step 3, Evaluate the risk
Step 4, Record your findings
Step 5, Review your findings
