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Operational requirements Flashcards

1
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Sets out the duties and responsibilities of both employers and employees for health and safety in the workplace.

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Health and Safety at work act 1974

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Sets out the duties and responsibilities of both employers and employees for health and safety in the workplace.

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1999

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The management of health and safety at work regulations 1999 reinforce these activities:-

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Planning, organisation, control, monitoring.

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‘It shall be the duty of every employer to ensure reasonable practicable the health & safety of all their employees’.

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Health and safety at work act regulations 1992

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Risk assessment

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Identifies anything that could cause harm to people.

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6
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Hazard

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Anything that can cause harm

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7
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Risk

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The likelihood that someone will be harmed by the hazard

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Written documents designed to cover the full range of work performed within the practice

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Standard operating procedures

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9
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Control of substances hazardous to health (COSHH)

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2002

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Covers the management of risks associated with hazardous substances. These include pharmaceuticals and chemicals.

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COSHH

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Hazardous waste (England & Wales) Regulations (HWR)

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2005

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12
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The premises must keep a waste register for 3 years

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Hazardous waste register

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13
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Infectious waste which requires disposal by incineration

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Waste container Yellow

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Infectious waste which requires treating to render it safe or it is incinerated

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Orange

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Cytotoxic and cytostatic waste

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Purple

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16
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Offensive or hygiene waste

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Yellow and black

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17
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Domestic waste which cannot be recycled

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Black

18
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Manual Handling Regulations

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1992

19
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Rules that an employer puts in place to reduce the workers risk of injuring themselves when handling machinery, equipment or patients.

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Manual handling regulations

20
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The health & safety (First aid) regulations

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1981

21
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Employees must provide adequate equipment, facilities and personnel to enable first aid to be given to employees.

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The health & safety (first aid) regulations

22
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Minimum first aid provision is: - A suitably stocked first-aid box and an appointed person to take charge of first aid arrangements.

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The health & Safety (first aid) regulations

23
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If under 20 employees a person responsible for first aid must be appointed.

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The health & safety (first aid) regulations

24
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If between 20-50 employees a trained first aider must be appointed in practice.

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The health & safety (first aid) regulations

25
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Someone appointed to take charge when someone is injured or ill in the work place.

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Appointed person

26
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Someone who has undergone HSE approved training course in first aid at work and holds a certificate. Training is repeated every 3 years.

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First aider

27
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Reporting of injuries, diseases and dangerous occurrence regulations (RIDDOR)

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1995

28
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RIDDOR Incidents should be reported when:-

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Major or fatal accidents, any accident or illness resulting in absence from work, any near-misses.

29
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Fracture of skull or long bone, amputation of hand or foot, loss of sight in an eye, any accident resulting in hospitalisation.

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RIDDOR Examples of major accidents:-

30
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Health & Safety display screen equipment regulations

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1992

31
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Noise at work regulations

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1989

32
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Working time regulations act

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1998

33
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Electricity at work regulations

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1989

34
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Sets out entitlement for rest periods, night work and annual leave in line with the hours worked.

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The working time regulations 1998

35
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The average working time is limited to 48 hours during each 7-day period.
There must be a minimum of 11 hours rest in any 24 hour period.
There must be a minimum rest period of 24 hours in each 7-day period. This increases to 48 hours for persons under 18 years of age.

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The working time regulations 1998 states that:-

36
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There must be a minimum rest break of 20 minutes if the working day is longer than 6 hours.
All employees are entitled to a minimum of 4 weeks paid annual leave.

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Continued the working time regulations act also states..

37
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Animal welfare act

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2006

38
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Comes under the electricity at work act 1989 - All electrical appliances must be tested and deemed safe to use, a label attached to the cable details the date and who tested it.

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Portable appliance testing (PAT)

39
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Portable appliance testing every..

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6 months to 2 years depending on the type of equipment.

40
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Hydrogen peroxide is classified as what type of agent?

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Oxidising agent

41
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TST indicator strips change colour when the correct what has been achieved.

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Time, pressure, temperature

42
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Yeah that schedule 3 was amended to clarify the role of a VN

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2002

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