Risk Assessments Flashcards
How many steps to risk assessments are there?
5
What are the steps to risk assessments?
- 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
Whats the hierarchy?
Government
⬇️
Health and safety work experience
⬇️
Land based
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Inspectors
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Managers
⬇️
Me and youHow many fatalities a week are there?
One
What is the risk?
The chance high or low that somebody could be harmed
Whats a hazard?
Anything that may cause harm
Whats COSHH?
Control of substances hazardous to health
Whats some of the substances that relate to COSHH?
Gas (airbourne) Solids (crystals) Liquids Vapour Dust Bacteria
Whats the most dangerous COSHH substance?
Airborne gases or vapours like carbon monoxide as you cant see them or smell them
COSHH substances on index?
- Salmonella and ecoli
- foods
- ammonia in urine
- disinfectants
- mites in hay and straw
- dust
- bacteria
Whats RIDDOR?
Reporting injuries, diseases and dangerous occurrences regulations
What does RIDDOR enable?
Health and safety executive and local authorities to identify where and how risks arise and to investigate serious accidents.
Health and safety executives…
Help with guidance, advice and support.
They dont want to investigate accidents and prosecute you
What must you report?
- 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)
Reportable injuries
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
Reducing the risk
- elimination
- substitution
- safe working procedures
- training, instruction and supervision
- personal and respiratory protective equipment
How many workers deaths were there in 2015/16
- But it was lower than the average for the past five years
In how many years has there been a downward trend in the rate of fatal injury?
20
How many members of the public were fatally injured in 2015/16
67
Who is responsible for providing, replacing and paying for your PPE?
Your employer
What do respirators do?
Filter the air
PPE need to be
Used correctly and employees need to know why they need PPE
PPE -
Needs to fit correctly
You need to make sure that PPE:
Doesn’t introduce another health risk
What three powers do inspectors have?
- Inspection- Can do inspections at any time
- Investigation- contrevention of regulations and if found can issue notices
- guidance- iffer help and advice
Whats an improvement notice?
Where one or more statutory area are being contravined by an employer/employee. Given 21 days to improve
Whats a prohibition notice?
Where a work place activity may give rise to serious injury. You must stop carrying out the activity until its put right.
Whats an intervention fee?
£129 1hr. 0vpaid for HSE to investigate. The contravention investigation + enforcement action.
Prosecutions:
Takes 9 weeks before conviction to allow for approvals. Now unlimited fines.
Was £2000 now unlimited from 12 march 2015
6months in prison
Manual handling operations handling 1992:
- 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)
What does HASAWA mean?
Health and safety at work act
Types of fires:
- chip pan
- oil/fuel
- forest/grass
- arson
- bin
- car
- chemicals
- electrical
Fight fires with:
- fire blanket
- wet towel
- fire extinguisher
- fire hose
- sand bucket
- foam
Whats the standard colour for a fire extinguisher?
Red
If a fire extinguisher has a cream band what does it have in it?
Foam
If a fire extinguisher has a yellow band what does it have in it?
Wet chemical
If a fire extinguisher has a black band what does it have in it?
CO2
If a fire extinguisher has a red band what does it have in it?
Water
If a fire extinguisher has a blue band what does it have in it?
Powder
