LO2 - Health and safety requirments Flashcards
What are the 7 health and safety regulations?
- Health and safety execuative
- Equality act 2010
- RIDDOR
- Data protection act
- Disclosure and Barring services
- Control of substances hazardous to health 2002
What does the health and safety executive do?
Provides a workplace with Guidance, advice and templates and tools to ensure health and safety is followed
What 3 areas does health and safety executive follow?
- employers responsibilities
- employees responsibilities
- fire safety
what are the employers responsibilites in terms of health and safety?
- Provide Public Liability Insurance
- Provide First Aid in the Workplace
- Provide Emergency Evacuation Procedures
- Use Signage and posters to promote safety
- Carry out Risk Assessments
- Report accidents and incidents (RIDDOR)
- Provide training and information for staff
What are the Employees responsibilties in terms of health and safety?
- Taking care of their own health and safety
- Take care of the health and safety of those around them
- Follow safety procedures
- Attend all safety training
What are the recommended methods for reducing a fire?
- keep igniton and flammable substances apart
- Know how to detect fires and warn people
- Having a correct fire fighter equipment
- Keep fire exits and esacpe routs clear and marked
- ensure workers recieve training
- reveiw and update risk assessments
What are the 9 protected characterisitics?
- age
- disability
- gender
- marraige
- maternity and pregancy
- race
- religion
- sex / sexual orentation
What does the equality act do?
It legally protects people from discrimination in the workplace and society
What 3 areas does eqauality act cover?
- sex discrimination 1975
- race relations 1976
- disbaility discrimination 1995
when was the disability act introduced
1995
What are the 4 areas covered by the disability act?
- employment
- access to facilties and sevices
- memebrship of private clubs and use of their facilties
- staff training
What is manual handling?
moving and lfiitng of heavy objects
what is the guidance for man handling?
- avoid needing to manual handle
- assess the risk
- reduce the risk of injury eg, hosts
What does DBS stand for?
Disclosure Barring Service
Why do we do DBS checks?
- Helps employees make safer recruitment descions and prevents unsitable people working with vulnerbale people
- Process requests for criminal records
- decide if stay on a barring list or not