INFORMATION SHEET 4.2-1: OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH AND SAFETY STANDARDS

 

INFORMATION SHEET 4.2-1

OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH AND SAFETY STANDARDS

 

Learning objective: After reading this information sheet, you must be able to:know the main laws regarding health and safety in the workplace.

Main laws and regulations regarding health and safety in the workplace, every employee and employer should be aware of are:

Manual handling operations in 1992
Substances Control Health Regulations 2002 (COSHH) (and Miscellaneous Amendments)
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The Health and Safety at Work Act 1974: This law requires that: Employers must ensure the health and safety for employees, providing them with safe investments, handling, storage and transportation of goods, providing information, training and support, giving them secure jobs and secure environment and facilities.

Organizations must have five or more employees of a policy statement on health and safety Implementation of the policy update and the same when necessary and avoid the risk of their other activities.

 Operation Manual Handling Regulation 1992:
Manual handling means bringing a load of hand and physical strength, such as lifting, putting down, pushing, etc. The employer must:
Hotel management should redesign the movement of the load by automatic procedures

Employees should be provided with the proper disposal Information about the weight of each load and its downside.

Mechanical aids such as trolleys, left should, lifting equipment are available.

Employees from hazardous substance risk assessment must

When working in a confined space, employees must have safe systems of work.

Before any work begins, should be adequate emergency measures are made.

Control of Substances Hazardous to Health Regulations 2002.

This law requires employers to assess risks to the health of employees work and sit on hazardous substances. They should be provided with health surveillance and medical records available to be stored for 40 years.

Work areas must be free from interference
Floor holes, cracks are loose mats are checked regularly.
Slippery-debris should be cleaned with cleaning equipment and procedures.
People need to warn of wet floors and alternative routes will be made available. Processing machines must be organized and to avoid Losses.
Electric cables must be properly positioned to avoid the final cable.
Covers should be used to secure the cables on the bottom.
If soils are wet and dusty, safety shoes for employees should be made available
Changes in ground level and tends to characterize.
Mats should be placed between wet and dry environments.
Create a great sense of safety signs, postersBathroom and shower valves to maintain pressure and temperature, providing a pre-mix of hot and cold water and automatic adaptation to changes in the system should be chosen.
The hotel management has focused on other security measures to ensure are:
Room doors should close and lock automatically.
Emergency lighting should be tested monthly
Output port must be clearly visible

A key provision of the work If the keys are not present, it should be replaced
Landscape design should be clean, but not to provide hiding places for criminals.
Adequate lighting in parking lots, walkways and exposed areas.

 

Art. 165. Administration of safety and health laws.

1. The Department of Labor and Employment shall be solely responsible for the administration and enforcement of occupational safety and health laws, regulations and standards in all establishments and workplaces wherever they may be located; however, chartered cities may be allowed to conduct industrial safety inspections of establishments within their respective jurisdictions where they have adequate facilities and competent personnel for the purpose as determined by the Department of Labor and Employment and subject to national standards established by the latter.
    
2. The Secretary of Labor and Employment may, through appropriate regulations, collect reasonable fees for the inspection of steam boilers, pressure vessels and pipings and electrical installations, the test and approval for safe use of materials, equipment and other safety devices and the approval of plans for such materials, equipment and devices. The fee so collected shall be deposited in the national treasury to the credit of the occupational safety and health fund and shall be expended exclusively for the administration and enforcement of safety and other labor laws administered by the Department of Labor and Employment