Introduction to Health and Safety at Work

Introduction to Health and Safety at Work
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18. 
Identify
a range of methods that an employer can 
use to provide health and safety information directly 
to individual employees.
19. (a)
Identify
the 
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means by which employers 
may provide information to employees in order 
to comply with the Health and Safety Information 
for Employees Regulations 1989
(b) 
Outline
the categories of information provided 
to employees by the means identifi ed in (a).
20. 
Explain
how induction training programmes for new 
employees can help to reduce the number of acci-
dents in the workplace.
21. A contractor has been engaged to undertake build-
ing maintenance work in a busy warehouse. 
Outline
the issues that should be covered in an induction 
programme for the contractor’s employees.
22. An independent audit of an organization has con-
cluded that employees have received insuffi cient 
health and safety training.
(i)
Describe
the factors that should be considered 
when developing an extensive programme of 
health and safety training within an organization
(ii) 
Outline
the various measures that might be used 
to assess the effectiveness of such training
(iii) 
Give FOUR
reasons why it is important for an 
employer to keep a record of the training pro-
vided to each employee.
23. 
Outline
reasons why an employee might require 
additional health and safety training at a later stage 
of employment within an organization.
24. 
Describe TWO
internal and 
TWO
external infl uences 
on the health and safety culture of an organization.

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