Health & Safety Regulations

Working at height

Falls from height remain the single biggest workplace killer, one of the main causes of major injury (Health & Safety Executive).

In a bid to reduce this distressing, costly and preventable suffering, new legislation was introduced in 2005. This promotes safe working practice by clearly defining work at height and the employer´s responsibility for proper risk assessment, product selection, useage, supervision and training.

Dust

Dust is a more sinister problem than you might think.

The term covers all "airborne particles" such as stone, wood and asbestos fibres, plus airborne materials like fumes from welding and vapours from chemicals.

Particles vary in size. Those too small to see could pose the greatest danger to health.

Where employees could be exposed to dust or fumes, an employer must control or minimise these risks. Failure to do so could lead to bronchial problems, skin conditions and, potentially cancer.

We offer dust supression kits, fume extractor units, Respitory Protection Equipment and more.

Remember: Personal Protective Equipment is NOT an alternative to equipment that eliminates the hazard of dust.

Manual Handling

Whether it's lifting, lowering, pushing, pulling or carrying – incorrect handling can result in fractures, strains and back pain.

Collectively known as musculo-skeletal disorders, they're the most common form of work related ill health in the UK.

Our range can minimise, assist with or eliminate the hazards in manual handling operations.

Where manual handling can't be avoided, employers must assess their operations and take appropriate action to reduce the risk of injury to the lowset level that's reasonably practical.

The Manual Handling Operations Regulations 1992 require employers to:
Avoid the need for harardous manula handling, as far as is reasonably practical If it can't be avoided, assess the risk of injury, reduce that risk as far as is reasonably practical

Personal Protective Equipment

All employers have duties around PPE at work. The main one is that PPE must be supplied and used wherever there's no other way of adequately controllong health and safety risks.

PPE is defined as "all equipment" (including clothing protecting against the weather) intended to be worn or held by a person at work, that protects them against health and safety risk(s).

Examples include:

• safety helmets
• gloves
• eye protection
• ear protection
• harnesses
• high-visibility clothing
• safety footwear

Noise

According to the HSE, hearing loss caused by exposure to noise at work remains a major problem. Other difficulties include deafness, tinnitus (ringing, buzzing or humming in the ears) and other ear conditions.

Noise can also be a safety hazard, interrupting communications and making warnings harder to hear.

You must assess and identify measures to eliminate or reduce risks from exposure to noise.

Look for silenced equipment, which can greatly reduce noise.

Hand Arm Vibration Syndrome

In addition to our existing procedures we have incorporated the control system, which will provide the worker with comprehensive information needed to control the end user´s exposure to vibration. It will provide guidance that will remind employers and end users to take measures that could eliminate or mitigate exposure.

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