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Risk Assessments Flashcards

1
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How many steps to risk assessments are there?

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5

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What are the steps to risk assessments?

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  • identify the hazards
  • decide who might be to blame and how people could be harmed
  • evaluate the risks and decide in precautions
  • record the findings and implement them. (Produce a risk assessment)
  • date revi
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3
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Whats the hierarchy?

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Government 
         ⬇️
Health and safety work experience 
         ⬇️
Land based
         ⬇️
Inspectors
         ⬇️
Managers
         ⬇️
Me and you
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4
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How many fatalities a week are there?

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One

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5
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What is the risk?

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The chance high or low that somebody could be harmed

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6
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Whats a hazard?

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Anything that may cause harm

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7
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Whats COSHH?

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Control of substances hazardous to health

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8
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Whats some of the substances that relate to COSHH?

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Gas (airbourne)
Solids (crystals)
Liquids
Vapour
Dust
Bacteria
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9
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Whats the most dangerous COSHH substance?

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Airborne gases or vapours like carbon monoxide as you cant see them or smell them

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10
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COSHH substances on index?

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  • Salmonella and ecoli
  • foods
  • ammonia in urine
  • disinfectants
  • mites in hay and straw
  • dust
  • bacteria
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Whats RIDDOR?

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Reporting injuries, diseases and dangerous occurrences regulations

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12
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What does RIDDOR enable?

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Health and safety executive and local authorities to identify where and how risks arise and to investigate serious accidents.

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Health and safety executives…

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Help with guidance, advice and support.

They dont want to investigate accidents and prosecute you

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14
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What must you report?

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  • death
  • fractures (no fingers or toes)
  • amputations
  • loss of sight
  • crush injuries to head, torso or internal organs
  • severe burns
  • unconsciousness
  • in hospital for 24hours
  • when employee cant come to work for over 7days
  • injuries to members of the public and people not at work where they have to go to the hospital
  • work related diseases
  • dangerous occurrences (near misses)
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15
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Reportable injuries

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Must keep a record of them as well as diseases or dangerous occurrences. Date and method of reporting must be included.
Records need to be kept in a acceptable form

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16
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Reducing the risk

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  • elimination
  • substitution
  • safe working procedures
  • training, instruction and supervision
  • personal and respiratory protective equipment
17
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How many workers deaths were there in 2015/16

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  1. But it was lower than the average for the past five years
18
Q

In how many years has there been a downward trend in the rate of fatal injury?

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20

19
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How many members of the public were fatally injured in 2015/16

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67

20
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Who is responsible for providing, replacing and paying for your PPE?

A

Your employer

21
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What do respirators do?

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Filter the air

22
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PPE need to be

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Used correctly and employees need to know why they need PPE

23
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PPE -

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Needs to fit correctly

24
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You need to make sure that PPE:

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Doesn’t introduce another health risk

25
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What three powers do inspectors have?

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  1. Inspection- Can do inspections at any time
  2. Investigation- contrevention of regulations and if found can issue notices
  3. guidance- iffer help and advice
26
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Whats an improvement notice?

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Where one or more statutory area are being contravined by an employer/employee. Given 21 days to improve

27
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Whats a prohibition notice?

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Where a work place activity may give rise to serious injury. You must stop carrying out the activity until its put right.

28
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Whats an intervention fee?

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£129 1hr. 0vpaid for HSE to investigate. The contravention investigation + enforcement action.

29
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Prosecutions:

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Takes 9 weeks before conviction to allow for approvals. Now unlimited fines.
Was £2000 now unlimited from 12 march 2015
6months in prison

30
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Manual handling operations handling 1992:

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  • state the common injuries associated with mandual handling (back injuries, pulled muscles)
  • state the common manual handling activities on the zoo (mulching, shoveling, lifting feed bags)
  • pick associated with the above (back injuries)
  • what alternative ways have you to do the jobs? ( more people to help, two people to life heavy things)
31
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What does HASAWA mean?

A

Health and safety at work act

32
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Types of fires:

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  • chip pan
  • oil/fuel
  • forest/grass
  • arson
  • bin
  • car
  • chemicals
  • electrical
33
Q

Fight fires with:

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  • fire blanket
  • wet towel
  • fire extinguisher
  • fire hose
  • sand bucket
  • foam
34
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Whats the standard colour for a fire extinguisher?

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Red

35
Q

If a fire extinguisher has a cream band what does it have in it?

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Foam

36
Q

If a fire extinguisher has a yellow band what does it have in it?

A

Wet chemical

37
Q

If a fire extinguisher has a black band what does it have in it?

A

CO2

38
Q

If a fire extinguisher has a red band what does it have in it?

A

Water

39
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If a fire extinguisher has a blue band what does it have in it?

A

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