MODULE 11 Health and Safety Flashcards
“Health and safety is a fundamental part of business. Boards need someone with passion and energy to ensure it stays at the core of the organization”.
(Health and Safety Executive)
True
Warehousing and storage cover a whole range of activities, all of which have their own hazards and risks.
Manual Hadling is the Major Injury
T
Warehousing is a very complex industry that exposes workers to a whole variety of risks, and therefore employers must ensure that health and safety is treated with the utmost importance at management level.
T
A health and safety policy is a stepping stone to ensuring health and safety in the workplace
T
a written policy can improve health and safety within the business.
T
A risk assessment is an important step in protecting your workforce and your business as well as complying with the law.
T
The law does not expect you to eliminate all risk but you are required to protect staff and visitors as far as is reasonably practicable
T
The law does not expect you to eliminate all risk but you are required to protect staff and visitors as far as is reasonably practicable
T
A risk assessment is simply a careful examination of what can cause harm to people so that you can weigh up whether you have taken enough precautions or should do more to prevent harm
T
Clear signage Remember, prioritize and tackle the most important things first. As you complete each action, tick it off your plan.
part of a health and safety regime, steps must be taken to protect the welfare of employees and visitors, and therefore a safe and healthy environment must be ensured with proper welfare facilities being made available.
a warehouse should be designed and laid out to allow people to move around it safely.
T
A significant hazard within any warehouse is where improperly stored goods can fall and injure staff.
T
A fire risk assessment must be undertaken to ensure that fire safety procedures, fire prevention measures and fire precautions are all in place and correct.
T
Within the storage and warehousing industry, slips and trips are a very serious problem.
T
The workplace must be regularly inspected to ensure that flooring remains adequate and repairs are undertaken wherever necessary. Any spillages must be cleaned up immediately.
T
manual handling can often cause work-related problems, including back pain and neck pain
T
Mechanical handling devices should help to avoid or reduce manual handling operations.
T
Shelves and bins should also be repositioned to reduce lifts from shoulder and floor height. Popular items should be kept on the middle shelves to avoid continuous bending and stretching.
T
Any equipment that is provided to allow working at height must be inspected regularly to ensure that it remains safe and is being used in the correct manner.
T
A common cause of accidents in the loading bay is from vehicle creep, where a lorry either drifts slightly away from the loading dock or, in the worst-case scenario, the driver moves off before warehouse operatives have actually finished loading or unloading the vehicle.
T
Loading bays should also be fitted with safety guards to ensure that staff and trucks cannot fall from the dock when not in use.
T
TAll mechanical handling and lifting equipment is classed as ‘work equipment’ and subject to PUWER
T
All mechanical handling and lifting equipment is classed as ‘work equipment’ and subject to PUWER
T
