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Transcript of Construction Health & Safety Awareness Following the CITB/CSCS syllabus.
Construction Health & Safety Awareness
Following the CITB/CSCS syllabus
SECTION 7 -To take reasonable care for the safety of themselves & others
Co-operate with their employer
SECTION 8 -Must not interfere with anything provided for health & safety
MHSW REGS 1999
Must comply with training/instruction
Inform employer of shortcomings
HASAWA - EMPLOYEES DUTIES
LEGAL DEFINTIONS
Must/Shall - an absolute duty, it must be done. There is no effective defence for not complying.
John Summers vs Frost 1955
‘..all dangerous parts of machinery must be securely fenced..’
Factories Act
‘SO FAR AS IS REASONABLY PRACTICABLE’
Reasonable practicable is a narrower term than physically possible and seems to me to suggest that a calculation be made in which the risk is placed on one side of a scale and the cost (in time, money or trouble) placed on the other side of the scale, it there is a gross disproportion between them, the risk being insignificant to the cost then the defendant has complied with his duty’
Lord Justice Askwith - Edwards vs National Coal Board 1949
‘SO FAR AS IS REASONABLY PRACTICABLE’
COST
RISK
HASAWA SECTION 37
‘Where any offence has been committed with the consent, connivance or through the neglect of any director, manager or similar person, he as well as the body corporate will be guilty of an offence’
OFFENCES BY THE BODY CORPORATE
STATUTE LAW
ACTS - the prime source of statute law. Costly, slow, full Parliamentary process and Royal Ascent
REGULATIONS - subordinate to the ACT but have the full force of the law. Faster, enables law to be easily updated to keep up with technology or experience.
APPROVED CODES OF PRACTICE (ACOPS)
Practical Guidance on how to comply with the law; issued by the HSE
Opinions of good practice.
Guidance
notes
GUIDANCE NOTES
POWERS OF HSE INSPECTORS
Entry at any reasonable time
Examine & Investigate
Require an area to be left undisturbed
Take samples,measurements & photo’s
Look at records, documents etc
Issue enforcement notices
Don’t forget, employees can also be fined or sent to prison!!
‘THE SIX PACK’
The Management of Health & Safety at Work Regs. 1999
The Health, Safety & Welfare at Work Regs 1992
The Manual Handling Operations Regs 1992
The Provision & Use of Work Equipment Regs 1998
The Personal Protective Equipment Regs 1992
The Health and Safety (Display Screen Equipment) Regs 1992
Video “The Way Ahead ~ HSE 25th Anniversary”
Accidents
REPORTING DANGEROUS OCCURRENCES
There are dangerous occurrences that must be reported to the HSE including:
Contact with overhead electric cable
Electrical short circuit with fire/explosion
Collapse of scaffold
Overturning of a forklift/crane etc
Collapse of a structure (over 5 ton)
Explosion or bursting of any closed vessel or pipeline
Escape of a quantity of a substance that could cause damage to health or death
REPORTING DISEASES
Employers are also responsible for reporting certain diseases to the HSE, including:
Occupational asthma
Occupational dermatitis
Leptospirosis (Weils Disease)
Hepatitis
Nasal or sinus cancer
Mesothelioma, Lung Cancer and Asbestosis
Vibration White Finger (VWF)
Fire
FIRE TRIANGLE
Fuel - liquid, solid, gas
Heat - any heat source that rises the temperature over the flash point of the material
Oxygen - always present in the air
FIRE PREVENTION
To prevent or fight a fire you must break the fire triangle
Housekeeping - tidiness
- safe storage of substances
Remove sources of ignition
- no smoking
- hot tools/soldering/blow lamps
- electrical checks