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• Cover
• Introduction
• About This Book
• Foolish Assumptions
• Icons Used in This Book
• Beyond the Book
• Where to Go from Here
• Part I: Getting Started with Health and Safety at Work
• Chapter 1: Making Sense of Health and Safety in the Workplace
• Putting Health and Safety into Context
• Benefitting Your Business
• Speaking the Language Like a Pro
• Chapter 2: Setting Your Health and Safety Policy
• Deciding Whether to Go It Alone or Seek Assistance
• Navigating the Maze of Official Guidance
• Preparing Your Health and Safety Policy
• Implementing Your Statement of General Policy
• Chapter 3: Engaging Your Workforce with Health and Safety
• Developing a Positive Safety Culture in Your Workplace
• Taking Control
• Co-operating with Health and Safety
• Talking the Talk: Communicating about Health and Safety
• Investing in Your People
• Chapter 4: Assessing Health and Safety Risks in the Workplace
• Thinking about Risk
• Conducting Your Risk Assessment
• Controlling Your Risk Level
• Transferring Financial Risk with Insurance
• Chapter 5: Getting Your House in Order
• Working Up a Healthy Sweat
• Staying Safe and on the Move
• Considering Employee Welfare
• Part II: Managing and Implementing Health and Safety in Your Business
• Chapter 6: Moving to a Recognised Safety Management System
• Discovering Why Safety Doesn’t Manage Itself
• Choosing a Recognised Safety Management System
• Looking at Safety Management System Elements
• Implementing a Recognised Safety Management System
• Chapter 7: Developing Safe Systems and Procedures
• Developing Safe Systems of Work
• Preparing Emergency Procedures
• Contracting Procedures
• Chapter 8: Monitoring and Reviewing Health and Safety in the Workplace
• Monitoring Your Safety Management System
• Using KPIs and Targets
• Conducting Inspections and Audits
• Learning from Accidents
• Improving Health and Safety Performance
• Part III: Controlling Workplace Risks
• Chapter 9: Tackling Behaviour-Based Issues: Workplace Woes
• Lifting the Lid on Violence
• Stressing Out
• Wising Up to Drugs and Alcohol
• Chapter 10: Harnessing Gravity and Managing Workplace Transport
• Working at Height
• Controlling Workplace Transport
• Chapter 11: Unpacking Manual Handling and Other Ergonomic Risks
• Introducing the Problem
• Taking Practical Steps to Handle Loads Safely
• Getting Comfortable with Workstations
• Chapter 12: Working Safely with Machinery
• Getting to Know Your Machinery’s Hazards
• Controlling Machinery Risk
• Making Safeguards Count
• Using Your Machinery
• Chapter 13: Shocking Truths: Electrical Safety
• Keeping Current on Electrical Hazards
• Preventing Danger: Controlling Your Electricity Risk
• Chapter 14: Fanning the Flames: Fire Risk
• Playing with Fire
• Assessing Fire Risk
• Selecting Options for Fire Prevention and Protection
• Chapter 15: Getting the Chemistry Right: Controlling Hazardous Substances
• Assessing the Risks to Health from Chemical Substances
• Keeping Chemicals under Wraps
• Getting to Know Asbestos
• Chapter 16: Making Waves: Tackling Noise, Vibration and Radiation
• Dealing with Noise and Vibration in the Workplace
• Addressing Radiation Concerns in the Workplace
• Part IV: Going the Extra Mile
• Chapter 17: Wrestling with Health and Safety Law
• Judging What’s Right: The UK Legal System
• Drawing Out the Health and Safety at Work etc Act 1974
• Breaking into the Management Regulations
• Chapter 18: Developing a Positive Safety Culture: Factoring in Human Behaviour
• Evolving Your Organisation’s Safety Culture
• Anticipating the Impact of Human Factors
• Chapter 19: Cracking Process Safety
• Approaching Safety Differently
• Breaking Down Process Safety Management
• Stacking Up Some Process Safety Management System Elements
• Part V: The Part of Tens
• Chapter 20: Ten Ways to Get Risk Assessment Wrong
• Using a Risk Assessment to Justify Decisions You’ve Already Made
• Making Your Risk Assessment Too Generic
• Overcomplicating Your Risk Assessment
• Ignoring Industry Standards and Good Practice
• Using the Wrong Guidance
• Knowing Nothing about the Activity You’re Assessing
• Leaving Consultants to the Task without Getting Involved Yourself
• Getting Bogged Down in Trivia
• Treating Your Risk Assessment as a Paper Exercise
• Assuming That Nothing Ever Changes
• Chapter 21: Ten Neat Tools to Help You Assess Risks and Choose Controls
• Office Risk Assessment Tool
• Risk Assessment Routefinder
• COSHH Essentials
• Manual Handling Assessment Charts (MAC) Tool
• Assessment of Repetitive Tasks (ART) Tool
• Noise Exposure and Hearing Protection Calculators
• Hand-Arm Vibration Exposure Calculator
• Work at Height Access Equipment Information Toolkit
• Asbestos Essentials Task Sheets
• Stress Management Tools
• Chapter 22: Ten Great Health and Safety Websites
• Health and Safety Executive
• Health and Safety Executive Northern Ireland
• Public Health England
• Fire Safety in the Workplace
• Legislation
• Institution of Occupational Safety and Health
• Occupational Safety and Health Consultants Register
• European Agency for Safety and Health at Work
• World Health Organization
• International Labour Organization’s Encyclopaedia of Occupational Health and Safety
• About the Author
• Cheat Sheet
• Advertisement Page
• Connect with Dummies
• End User License Agreement