Safety and Risk Management at Work Flashcards
Facility Software
- Members’ personal details
- Screening forms
- Renewals
- Birthdays: build relationship
- Barcode entry: automatically logs client
- Programme monitoring
- “We miss you” sms/emails
- Database marketing
- Techno-gym smart card
- Free Apps
- Online Booking and Billing Systems
Duties of the employer
‘it shall be the duty of the employer to ensure, as far as is reasonably practicable, the safety, health and welfare at work of all his employees’.
These duties are intended to protect the employee, fellow employees and any other person affected by the employee’s actions.
What is a Safety Statement
- A written programme for safeguarding health and safety in the workplace
- Represents a commitment to health and safety
- Specifies the means and resources for maintaining and reviewing health and safety in the workplace
- Safety Health & Welfare at work Act 2005
- It is the LAW.
Content of Safety Statement
- Identify hazards in the workplace
- Assess risks arising from these hazards
- Specify the manner in which health and safety are to be secured
- Include the names and job titles of people responsible for health and safety in the facility
- Specify the cooperation required from employees
- Contain arrangements for consultation with employees on health & safety matters.
- Signature of MD or person who has overall responsibility.
Safe definition
The state where/when exposure of hazards has been controlled to an adequate level and is the opposite of dangerous or danger (safe, plant, and safe system of work).
Assessment Definition
Evaluating whether hazards are adequately controlled, taking into account any measures already in place
Physical Hazards
- Manual Handling
- Equipment
- Falling objects
- Slipping/tripping hazards
- Introduction of new machinery/work systems
- Fire
- Machinery
- Electricity
- Hot substances/surfaces
- Hand tools
- Poor Housekeeping
- Collisions between moving equipment
Health Hazards
- Noise
- Harmful dusts
- Unsuitable lighting levels
- Some types of light eg. over exposure to ultra- violet light
- Sources of radiation
- Extremes of temperature
- Injury through poor design of tasks/machinery
Human Factor
- Staff – mentally and physically capable of doing their jobs
- Workplace organisation
- Violence to workers, bullying
- Passive smoking
Potential Severity Rating (PSR)
- Negligible injuries
- Minor injuries
- Major injuries
- Fatal injuries
- Multiple fatalities
- Catastrophic fatalities
Probable Likelihood Rating (PLR)
- highly improbable
- remotely possible
- occasional
- fairly frequent
- frequent or regular
- almost a certainty
How to calculate risk rating number (RRN)
multiplying the Potential Severity Rating (PSR) by the Probable Likelihood Rating (PLR)
PSR X PLR = RRN
Operating Procedures
- Normal operating Procedures (NOPs)
-Day to day running of workplace - Emergency Action Plans (EAPs)
-Specific plan for emergency
NOP’s
- Systems of work and operating systems
- Dealings with customers
- First Aid Arrangements
- Staff duties and responsibilities
- Arrangements for activities
- Details of the alarm system
- Arrangements and conditions for the hire of the facility * Child protection guidelines
EAP’s
- EAPs should prevent and minimise any impact on health and safety associated with risks.
- They should give specific information on the action to be taken in the event of an emergency.
- These should be studied and rehearsed thoroughly as they can not be learnt overnight (eg: Fire Drill)
