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Unit 4 Assignment 1 completed to distinction level
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Introduction:The purpose of this research is to identify the laws and regulations relevant to different
scientific organisations and to evaluate and compare how two different scientific
organisations comply with legislation. E.g. (COSHH, and health and safety policies)
Legislations relevant to scientific organisations:
Health and safety at work act
-This is the law that must be obeyed in the workplace.
-regulated and monitored by Health and safety Executive (HSE)
-Organisations with more than 5 employees have to produce a health and safety policy and HSE
oversees this document.
-HSE carries out inspections to ensure that workplace has health and safety, assessed the risk,
provides training and PPE (personal protective equipment), display posters for HS.
-Failure to comply with this results in fines or imprisonment.
Manual Handling operations regulations
-Minimise injury from handling tasks.
-Avoid hazardous manual handling operations so far as reasonably practicable.
-Asses the risk of injury in any hazardous manual handling operations that cannot be avoided.
-Companies or Employers must provide appropriate training to reduce injuries.
DSE regulations 1992
- “As an employer, you must protect your workers from the health risks of working with display
screen equipment (DSE), such as PCs, laptops, tablets and smartphones.”
- “The Health and Safety (Display Screen Equipment) Regulations apply to workers who use DSE
daily, for an hour or more at a time. We describe these workers as ‘DSE users. The regulations
don’t apply to workers who use DSE infrequently or only use it for a short time.”
RIDDOR
-Reporting of injuries, disease and dangerous occurrences Regulation 2013
-Employers have a legal duty to report ill health and accidents that did not quite happen.
-Employers must keep a register of all accidents and near misses.
-In case of incident it must be logged in organisations accident book.
-Must have a first aider, must send the person for relevant recent training.
COMAH
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, -The Control of Major Accident Hazards ensures:
-that businesses take all necessary measures to prevent major accidents involving dangerous
substances.
-limit consequences to people of any major accidents which do occur.
COSHH:
Storing Chemical Products
Access and premises
✓ Make Sure that only trained workers have access to stored chemical products. Keep the
storage container locked.
✓ Provide good washing facilities
Personal protective equipment (PPE)
✓ Abide By the instructions on product labels.
✓ You may require respiratory protective equipment (RPE) in case of a spill.
✓protective gloves
✓ dispose of single-use gloves every time they are taken off.
Keep apart:
■ solid and liquid products;
■ flammable and non-flammable liquids;
■ acids and alkalis; and
■ wastes.
✓ Store products containing chemicals securely in a cool, dry, dark place,
capable of keeping in spills.
✓ Store containers so their labels face forwards.
✓ Store heavier items and corrosive chemicals on lower shelves.
✓ Make Sure that containers are easy to pour from.
Caution: Never store chemicals in open containers.
Employers are required by law to carry out risk assessments
Risk Assessment
-Risk assessment is very important because it reduces the risk of injury or illness
law to protect their worker, and others, from harm.
Under the Management of Health and Safety at Work Regulations 1999, the minimum you must
do is:
-detect what could cause injury or illness in your business (hazards)
-determine how likely it is that someone could be harmed and how severely (the risk)
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