Introduction to Health and Safety at Work

see
Rollover protective 
structures
Routine violation 57
RRFSO
see
Regulatory Reform (Fire 
Safety) Order 2004
RSI
see
Repetitive strain injury
Rules, contractors safety 41
Safe driving:
lift trucks 152
mobile work equipment 171
Safe place of work, construction 
hazards and control 279
Safe systems of work 86–9
defi nition 86
Safeguards, machinery 173–5
Safety:
contractor rules 41
culture 49–50
defi nition 2
devices 176–7
hooks 153, 154
method statement form 100
performance 50–1
Safety Committees Regulations 
1977 42–3
Safety Representatives Regulations 
1977 42–3
Safety Representatives and Safety 
Committees Regulations 
1977 383–4
Safety sampling, measuring 
performance 107
Safety Signs and Signals Regulations 
1996 384–6
Sanitary conveniences 258, 335, 393
Scaffolds:
fault checklist 302
fi xed 293
Scotland, legal system 5
Scottish Environment Protection 
Agency
see
Environment Agency
Seating, workplace environment 259
Security Equipment 272
Selection, contractors 40, 290
Self-employed 35
Service demands 62
Shear hazards 168
Shock, electric 189
Signs:
means of escape from fi re 215
Regulations 384
Silica hazards 231
Situational violations 57–8
Skin 228
dermatitis 228
protection 241
Slips and lapses, human errors 56–7
Smoke spread in buildings 207–8
Societal expectations 63
Sound pressure levels 261
Sources of law (England and Wales) 
5–6
Specialist training 62
Staging, working above ground level 
293
Stakeholders involvement, health and 
safety management 411–12
Standards, promotion 58–9
Static electricity 192–3
Stationary objects, pedestrian 
hazards 133–4
Statute law 6
liability levels 7–8
Stepladders 292–3
Stress, causes and prevention 269–70
Study skills 418
Studying:
examinations 422–3
location 418
memory 420–2
organizing information 420
planning 418–19
reading 419
revision 419–20
Substances hazardous to health, 
control hierarchy 85
Suitability, hand tools 165
Supervision, risk control 83
Supervisors:
emergency procedures 93

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Index
449
responsibilities 46
training 62
Supervisory/people control 
regulations 238
Supply chain 36–8
Supply of Machinery (Safety) 
Regulations 1992, 37, 159, 
386–9
Surface spread, fi re protection 217–18
Survey techniques, health risks 
235–6
Task, manual handling assessment 145
Task design, ergonomics 250
Temperature, extremes 265
Tenosynovitis 257
Testing:
fi re fi ghting equipment 220
portable electrical appliances 197
Tetanus 285
Time exposure reduction, risk 
control 82
Toolbox talks 61
Torts and duties 6–7
Trade unions 64
Traffi c route hazards and control 
282–3
Training 60–2
fi re emergency plans 220
incident investigation 121
induction 61
jobs 61–2
management 62
manual handling 148
risk control 82–3
safe systems of work 82–86
specialist 62
supervisors 62
work equipment hazards and 
control 159
Transport of hazardous waste be 
road 243
Trestles, working above ground 
level 292
Trip devices 176
Two-handed control devices, safety 176
Ultraviolet radiation 267
Urinary system 228
User checks, portable electrical 
appliances testing 197–8
User responsibilities, work 
equipment 164
Vehicle operation:
control strategies 136–7
hazards 135–6
Vehicles:
construction hazards and 
control 282–3
movement management 137
Vibration at Work Regulations 
2005 389–91
Vibration Syndrome 252
Vibration white fi nger (VWF) 252
Violations, health and safety rules 57–8
Violence at work:
causes and prevention 270–3
investigating 271
taking action 272
Visual inspection, portable electrical 
appliances testing 198
Visual problems, display screen 
equipment 257
VWF