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level questions: Health and Safety

Question	Answer
Once it has more than 5 employees.	When must an organisation have a Health and Safety Policy?
anything that may cause harm, such as chemicals, electricity	Hazard
the chance, high or low, that somebody could be harmed by these and other hazards	Risk
Ensure that effective precautions are in place to prevent accidents and/or ill health arising from work.	What is the primary objective of health and safety risk assessment
The process of identifying potential health & safety risks and hazards and making a decision about how serious they are. You need to consider anything which might harm or injure you	What is a risk assessment
Periodically, or whenever circumstances change, or if you have reason to believe the assessment is no longer valid	When should a risk assessment be reviewed
Before the task	When should you do a risk assessment?
the severity of the injury or ill health which is most likely to occur as a result of exposure to the hazard	Consequence
the likelihood that the consequence in question occurs	Likelihood
1. Look for the hazards associated with the work activities 2. Decide who might be harmed 3. Evaluate the risks and decide on the controls 4. Record the findings and implement them 5. Review your assessment and update if necessary	5 steps of a risk assessment
.	Evaluating Risk
There may be no injury or a minor injury for which local first aid attention will be sufficient	Trivial Consequence
An accident would result in time off work, broken bones, chemical burns, poisoning or hospitalisation	Significant Consequence
Death, loss of limb, loss of sight in one or both eyes	Severe Consequence
Work cannot be carried out until more safety controls are in place	If risk from hazard is rated high what happens?
1. Elimination 2. Substitution 3. Physical Control 4. Administrative Control 5.PPE	Hierarchy of Control
3 years	How long must a risk assessment be held?
Comprises those strategies and methods to detect and assess systematically the adverse effects of work on the health of the workers.	What is health surveillance?
1. Protect health of employee 2. Detect early stage of adverse health effects 3. Assisting in evaluation of control measures 4. Data gathering for detection of hazards and assessment of risk	What is the purpose of Health Survelliance?
When any employee is at risk from hazardous substances covered by COSHH	When is health surveillance necessary?
Control of Substances Hazardous to Health	What does COSHH stand for?
- improved productivity as a result of using more effective controls - improved employee morale - better employee understanding and compliance with health and safety	Benefits of COSHH
Dangerous to enviroment, toxic, gas under pressure, Corrosive, Explosive, Flammable, Caution (eg skin irritation), Oxidising, long term health hazards (carcinogenicity)	What are the symbols?
Asbestos and Lead Biological agents outside employers control (catching infection from colleague)	What substances does COSHH not apply to?
1. Assess risk 2. Decide what precautions are needed 3. Prevent/control exposure 4. Ensure control measures used and maintained 5. Monitor exposure 6. Carry out appropriate health surveillance 7. Prepare plans to deal with incidents, emergencies 8. Ensure employees informed, trained, supervised	What are the steps of COSHH?