Introduction to Health and Safety at Work

Employees
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Are responsible for their own safety and health.
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Ensure that their actions will not jeopardize the 
safety or health of other employees.
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Are alert to observe and correct, or report, unsafe 
practices and conditions.
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Maintain a healthy and safe place to work and 
cooperate with managers in the implementation 
of health and safety matters.
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Make suggestions to improve any aspect of 
health and safety.
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Maintain an active interest in health and safety.
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Learn and follow the operating procedures and 
health and safety rules and procedures for safe 
performance of the job.
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Follow the established procedures if accidents 
occur.
Introduction to Health and Safety at Work

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Appendix 3.2 Checklist for supply chain health and safety management
This checklist is taken from the HSE leafl et INDG268 
Working Together: Guidance on Health and Safety for 
Contractors and Suppliers 2002. It is a reminder of the 
topics that might need to be discussed with people 
who individual contractors may be working with.
It is not intended to be exhaustive and not all 
questions will apply at any one time, but it should 
help people to get started.
1 Responsibilities 
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What are the hazards of the job?
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Who is to assess particular risks?
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Who will co-ordinate action?
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Who will monitor progress?
2 The 
job
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Where is it to be done?
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Who 
with?
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Who is in charge?
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How is the job to be done?
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What other work will be going on at the same 
time?
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How long will it take?
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What time of day or night?
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Do you need any permit to do the work?