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Abrasive Wheels

H & S Guidance – Abrasive Wheel An abrasive wheel is usually defined as a wheel consisting of abrasive particles bonded together using organic or inorganic substances such as resin. LEGISLATION Provision and Use of Work Equipment Regulations 1998 (PUWER 98) Supply of Machinery (Safety) Regulations 1992 (as amended) HAZARDS Includes wheel breakage/bursting, contact or [...]

Access Equipment/Ladders

H & S Guidance – Access Equipment/Ladders INTRODUCTION Access to buildings or parts of buildings can be achieved by the use of scaffolds or ladders. This guidance will seek to highlight the main causes of accidents involving such access equipment and recommend precautions and procedures to control the risk. LADDER (The term ladder will be [...]

Accident Reporting

H & S Guidance – Accident Reporting INTRODUCTION For most businesses a reportable accident, dangerous occurrence or case of disease is a comparatively rare event. However, employers, self-employed or persons in control of work premises should be aware that they still have duties under the Reporting of Injuries, Diseases and Dangerous Occurrences Regulations 1995 (RIDDOR’95). [...]

Agricultural and Horticultural Amenity Equipment

H & S Guidance – Agricultural and Horticultural Amenity Equipment INTRODUCTION There may be occasions when equipment, which may be primarily for agricultural or horticultural use, is used in premises for which the Council is the enforcing authority (e.g. golf courses, sports clubs). Examples of such equipment include tractors, chainsaws, brush cutters and strimmers. As [...]

Aids/HIV and Hepatitis B

H & S Guidance – Aids/HIV and Hepatitis B INTRODUCTION BBVs are viruses that some people carry in their blood and which may cause severe disease in certain people and few or no symptoms in others. The virus can still spread to another person, whether or not the infected person has symptoms. HIV/ AIDS HIV [...]

Air Handling Units

Air Handling Units Information on the health risks associated with air conditioning systems Air conditioning systems which use evaporative condensers in their cooling process. Some air conditioning systems use evaporative condensers in their cooling process, these types of system must be registered with the local authority under The Notification of Cooling Towers and Evaporative Condensers [...]

Battery Charging

H & S Guidance – Battery Charging INTRODUCTION Lead-acid industrial batteries are used in two main applications:- Motive power – to drive/power forklift trucks etc. Standby power – to provide backup for equipment in the event of a mains failure. HAZARDS Chemical: Batteries contain sulphuric acid, which is poisonous, corrosive and causes burns/irritation on contact [...]

Biological Agents

H & S Guidance – Biological Agents INTRODUCTION Where there is a potential for occupational exposure, micro-organisms which are hazardous to human health are included as substances hazardous to health under the Control Of Substances Hazardous to Health Regulations (COSHH). Ill-health may arise by exposure to agents such as blue-green algae or via zoonoses (infections [...]

Business Start Up

H & S Guidance – Business Start Up INTRODUCTION If you have recently started your business you may benefit from having an overview of the main legal requirements relating to health and safety. Further details on all of these can be found within this Information System. MAIN DUTIES Under the Health and Safety at Work [...]

Carcinogens

H & S Guidance – Carcinogens INTRODUCTION Carcinogens are substances, which have cancer-inducing effects on cells in the body. The active agents can be substances to which the body is exposed directly, or ones formed during the metabolism of those substances in the body. Much recent research has been directed at occupational cancer and there [...]