The culture of an organisation makes the greatest contribution to its health and safety performance. Unfortunately culture is not an easy concept to understand, measure or manage. A good health and safety management system can go some way to setting the scene for developing a good culture, but it goes much deeper than that. Read…
The following article explains five critical steps in order to successfully manage health and safety within your business. These steps include setting your policy, organising your staff, planning and setting standards, measuring your performance and learning from your experiences through audits and reviews. Five steps to success in managing health and safety This booklet summarises…
A risk assessment is a systematic examination of a task, job or process that you carry out at work for the purpose of; Identifying the significant hazards that are present (a hazard is something that has the potential to cause someone harm or ill health). Three types of risk assessments: Baseline risk assessments (Baseline HIRA)…
REDUCE, REUSE, RECYCLE! Many people recycle their waste newspaper, bottles, cans and magazines created within their home. Recycling collection points are readily accessible to everyone at many different locations such as supermarkets, community halls, car parks and schools. It has now become common practice for many people to recycle within their home but not so…
The following article has been extracted from Southafrica.net. 2015. Smoking Laws in South Africa. [ONLINE] Available at:http://www.southafrica.net/za/en/travel-tips/entry/travel-tip-smoking. [Accessed 14 September 15]. South Africa became one of the first countries in the world to ban smoking in public places in 2000 when it introduced its Tobacco Products Control Amendment Act. The act put a serious dent in…
The following information has been extracted from: Health and Safety Executive. (1999) Write a health and safety policy for your business. [Online] Available from: http://www.hse.gov.uk/simple-health-safety/write.htm[Accessed 7 September 2015]. By explaining how the business will manage the health and safety policy within the organisation, staff and stakeholders will become aware of the businesses commitment to health and…
The following article covers the fire strategies that need to be in place in order to comply with legislation. This includes prevention, risk assessment, fire detection and containment and evacuation plans: Workplace Fire Safety
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It is so important to be constantly aware of safety in any environment. Here we will have a look at safety awareness in the workplace specifically:
