Introduction to Health and Safety at Work

11.6
Operation and working environment 
163
11.7
User 
responsibilities 
164
11.8
Hand-held 
tools 
164
11.9
Mechanical machinery hazards 
167
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11.10
Mobile work equipment 
169
11.11
Non-mechanical machinery hazards 
171
11.12
Examples of machinery hazards 
171
11.13
Practical 
safeguards 
173
11.14
Other safety devices 
176
11.15
Application of safeguards to the range of machines 
177
11.16
Guard 
construction 
185
11.17
Practice NEBOSH questions for Chapter 11 
185
12 ELECTRICAL HAZARDS AND CONTROL 
187
12.1
Introduction 
187
12.2
Principles of electricity and some defi nitions 
187
12.3
Electrical hazards and injuries 
189
12.4
General control measures for electrical hazards 
194
12.5
The selection and suitability of equipment 
195
12.6
Inspection and maintenance strategies 
197
12.7
Portable electrical appliances testing 
197
12.8
Practice NEBOSH questions for Chapter 12 
200
13 FIRE HAZARDS AND CONTROL 
201
13.1
Introduction 
201
13.2
The Regulatory Reform (Fire Safety) Order 2004 (RRFSO) – Requirements 
202
13.3
Basic principles of fi re 
204
13.4
Methods of extinction 
206
13.5
Classifi cation of fi re 
206
13.6
Principles of heat transmission and fi re spread 
206