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Task: 1.

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Key features of relevant regulation of Akij motors ltd.
Akij motor is an automobile manufacturing company which is situated at Dhaka, Bangladesh.
The workplace of akij motors has some hazards and those hazards are:

Key features of Akij motors:


 Provide proper lighting, ventilation at the workplace
 Workers should be trained about the health and safety
 staff facilities, including toilets, washing facilities and refreshment
 Safe passageways to prevent slipping and tripping hazards.
 avoid the need for employees to undertake any manual handling activities involving risk
of injury
 Make assessments of manual handling risks and try to reduce the risk of injury. The
assessment should consider the task, the load and the individual's personal
characteristics
 minimum daily rest periods of 11 hours, unless shift-working arrangements have been
made that comply with the Regulations
 A 48-hour maximum working week. Employers have a contractual obligation not to
require a worker to work more than an average 48-hour week
 Are entitled to an uninterrupted 12-hour break in each 24 hour period of work.
 are entitled to weekly rest of at least 48 hours in each seven-day period
 Cannot normally work more than eight hours a day or 40 hours a week. These hours
cannot be averaged out. There is no 'opt-out' for young workers
Those are the key features of health and safety regulation and those key features are applied at Akij
motors Limited.

Four key features of Akij motors:


1)
Health and Safety regulations that are relevant to the CAD environment Electricity at work
Regulations. This regulation is important to the engineering environment as electricity is
required to power offices and computers.
• Employers should ensure that electrical systems are maintained regularly for health and
safety reasons.
• Every five years by UK law, all circuits are required to be checked by a component
electrician. This is to ensure that they meet their safety expectations.
 Employers are likely to face risks by electric shocks and/or other hazards if they are not
regularly checked.

2)
Working Time Regulations 1998:
• This regulation was created in 1998 and it states employers must allow their employees in
regular rest brakes and days off work.
• The maximum number of hours an employee can work for is 48 hours per week.
• Under 18s can only work up to 40 hours per week.
• This regulation does not support other times, for example the time spent travelling between
home and work, training in non-job-related classes in the evening and so on.
• Overworked employees are expected to make mistakes at work, which could be dangerous as
they could put themselves and others at risk.
• By law employees have the right to rest at least once a week.

3)
Display Screen Equipment (DSE) Regulations 1992:
• Established in 1992, it focuses on all touch-screens and other similar devices that include a
display screen.
• Employees have the right for regular breaks from looking at their screens for a period of time.
This regulation aims to reduce any eye damage such as poor eye sight.
• Health and safety training for any workstation employees would be working at must be
provided by the employer.
• Employers should keep records of employees that need to have an eye test yearly under the
regulation.

4)
Provision and Use of Work Equipment (PUWER) 1998:
• Created in 1998, the regulation focuses on dealing with work equipment and machineries
used in workplaces.
• Employers must ensure employees are safe at work. For example, they are required to check
that all engineering machinery is suitable fit for a precise purpose at work.
• Employers must ensure machinery is frequently inspected for safety reasons.
• Emergency buttons being visible on machineries.
• The regulation states health and safety signs should be placed on engineering machineries
for example, warning signs.
• Workers should be provided with instructions on how to operate a certain machine.

(ii)
BOEING:
The Boeing Company is an American multinational corporation that designs, manufactures, and
sells airplanes, rotorcraft, rockets, satellites, telecommunications equipment and missiles word
wide.
AS it is a huge manufacturing company so that there should be extra care on the safety of the
workers. Many airline workers may be unaware of the potential hazards in their work
environment, which makes them more vulnerable to injury. The scope of hazards existing in
aviation operation environment is very wide. The following hazards that I mentioned in my
previous answer also can happen in this company. In addition working at height can be hazard
for workers.
Four key features of Boeing:
1)
Workplace (Health, Safety and Welfare) Regulations (WHSWR) 1992:
• Created in 1992, this regulation states employees must be safe when at the workplace.
• Machines must be regularly cleaned and maintained.
• The workplace should be kept clean for its workers.
• The minimum temperate for a usual workplace is 16°C, though it is 13°C for a workplace
where it is energetic.
• Employers should ensure the atmosphere their workers would be working in is healthy,
with a frequent supply of clean air.
• Employees have right to access fresh drinking water.
• Employees must have facilities that are easily accessible facilities for example, toilets and
basins to prevent any health and safety risks such as illnesses.
2)
Health and Safety (First Aid) Regulations 1981:
• Created in 1998, employees must provide first aid to employees at work.
• Employees must have easy access to first-aid equipment while at work.
• Employees must receive instant help in case of an emergency.
• First-aiders wishing to obtain a certificate of qualification must undergo a training course of four
days. • Employees working away from site must be provided with first-aid boxes in the vehicles
they would use, for example vans and lorries.

3)
Confined Space Regulations (CSR) 1997:
• Created in 1997, it states that employers should aim to minimise the risks of working in confined
spaces.

• The dangers of working in confined spaces include the lack of oxygen, toxic gases for instance, the risk
of fire, fumes, etc.

• Employers need to be alert of the amount of space its workers would have in the workplace.

• Employers should guarantee that spaces which are enclosed can be easily identified, for example,
sewers, chambers, silos, etc.

4)
Working Time Regulations 1998:
• This regulation was created in 1998 and it states employers must allow their employees in
regular rest brakes and days off work.
• The maximum number of hours an employee can work for is 48 hours per week.
• Under 18s can only work up to 40 hours per week.
• This regulation does not support other times, for example the time spent travelling
between home and work, training in non-job-related classes in the evening and so on.
Task 1.2

(a)

(i)
For ensuring proper safety in workplace it is very much important to care about the roles and
responsibilities of employer, employee and health and safety executive. The Occupational
Health and Safety Regulation (OHS Regulation), contains all the rules, regulations, and
responsibilities relating to WorkSafeBC, employers, and workers. WorkSafeBC dictates that
every employer must make a copy of the Regulation readily available at each place of
employment so workers can refer to it. This may be done either by including a hard copy
version with other safety information that is provided to employees as a part of their training,
or by providing instructions on how to access the Regulation online. The Regulation begins with
a general explanation of terms, the procedure for notification of injury, and first aid
requirements. Here some roles and responsibilities of employers according to the Occupational
Health and Safety Regulation (OHS Regulation)-

Roles and Responsibilities of Employers: Employers are the legal entity that controls and
directs a servant or worker under an express or implied contract of employment and pays him or her
salary or wages in compensation. Employers are responsible for health and safety management. It is an
employer's duty to protect the health, safety and welfare of their employees and other people who
might be affected by their business. The roles and responsibilities are described below-

Under the HASAWA 1974, employees have a responsibility to protect themselves while at work and
should take care of their health and safety in the workplace. If any incident occurs, workers must report
them to their employers. This reduces the likelihood of an incident occurring in the future.

• To ensure the wellbeing, security and welfare of their workers and other individuals who may be
influenced by their business. Bosses must do whatever is sensibly practicable to accomplish this.

• Make sure that laborers and others are shielded from whatever may cause hurt, viably controlling
any dangers to damage or wellbeing that could emerge in the work environment.

• Give representatives data about the dangers in your work environment and how they are ensured,
likewise educate and train them on the best way to manage the dangers.

• Consult workers on wellbeing and security issues. Conference must be either immediate or through
a security agent that is either chosen by the workforce or delegated by a worker's organization.
• Assess dangers and set up a security articulation.

• Provide and keep up offices for your representatives, for example, clean toilets and washing offices.
They may require other welfare offices relying upon the sort of working environment.

• Prepare and update crisis strategies.

• Provide suitable preparing and data.

• Report genuine occurrences to the Health and Safety Authority.[ CITATION Emp1 \l 1033 ]

ii)
Roles and Responsibilities of Employees : Employees are the general population that
works low maintenance or full time under a contact of business. Representatives have duties
towards their managers, regardless of whether they work low maintenance or don't have a
composed contract with their bosses. The obligations of representatives (laborers) have under
the 2004 Act are fundamentally equivalent to under the previous 1985 Act. The one distinction
is that laborers, similar to bosses and different gatherings, would now be able to be charged
under the new offense of 'neglectful risk'. As indicated by the area 25, Their jobs and
obligations are depicted beneath
to take sensible consideration of your own wellbeing and security

a. if conceivable to abstain from wearing adornments or free attire if working hardware

b. if laborers have long hair, or wear a headscarf, they should ensure it's tucked off the
beaten path as it could get captured in hardware

c. to take sensible consideration not to put other individuals - individual representatives


and individuals from the general population - in danger by workers do or don't do
throughout his work

d. to co-work with business, making a point to get appropriate preparing and pursue the
organization's wellbeing and security strategies

e. not to meddle with or abuse whatever's been accommodated laborers wellbeing,


security or welfare

f. to report any wounds, strains or sicknesses to the business

g. to tell the business if something happens that may influence representative's capacity to
work, such as getting to be pregnant or enduring damage - on the grounds that business
has a legitimate obligation regarding worker's wellbeing and security, they may need to
suspend him while they discover an answer for the issue or issue, yet laborer will
regularly be paid if this occurs

h. if any representative drives or works apparatus, he have an obligation to tell his


manager in the event that he take prescription that makes him languid - on the off
chance that he has, they ought to incidentally move him to another activity on the off
chance that they have one for him to do[ CITATION Emp2 \l 1033 ]

iii)
Roles and Responsibilities of Health and Safety Executive [HSE]:

Safe practice is essential to the advancement of nobility in consideration. There are various
administrative measures and guidelines to help wellbeing and security at work. These are expected
to ensure individuals in work, those utilizing administrations and the more extensive open. The
Health and Safety Executive (HSE), neighborhood expert Trading Standards and the Care Quality
Commission (CQC) would all be able to bring indictments against consideration suppliers who
rupture wellbeing and security benchmarks. Wellbeing, Health and Welfare at Work Act 2005 sets
out the primary arrangements for associations to verify and improve the security wellbeing and
welfare of individuals at work. The Health and Safety Executive ensures everyone in the company
complies with health and safety laws. They prevent work-related death, injury and ill health. They
ensure the safety of employees. The roles and responsibilities of health and safety executive
according to the following legislation are described below-

• Develop and execute wellbeing and security designs in the working environment as per lawful rules

• Prepare and implement approaches to set up a culture of wellbeing and security

• Evaluate practices, methodology and offices to survey hazard and adherence to the law

• Conduct preparing and introductions for wellbeing and security matters and mishap counteractive
action

• Monitor consistence to approaches and laws by reviewing workers and tasks

• Inspect gear and hardware to watch conceivable dangerous conditions

• Investigate mishaps or episodes to find causes and handle laborer's pay claims

• Recommend answers for issues, improvement openings or new counteractive action measures

• Report on wellbeing and security mindfulness, issues and insights[ CITATION Saf \l 1033 ]
Task 3.2
The Reporting of Injuries, Diseases and Dangerous Occurrences Regulations require employers, or in
certain circumstances others who control or manage the premises, to report to the relevant enforcing
authority and keep records of:

• work-related deaths
• work-related accidents which cause certain specified serious injuries to workers, or which result in a
worker being incapacitated for more than seven consecutive days.
• cases of those industrial diseases listed in RIDDOR
• certain dangerous occurrences.
• Gas related incidence.
• injuries to a person who is not at work, such as a member of the public, which are caused by an
accident at work and which result in the person being taken to hospital from the site for treatment.

RIDDOR regulations describe procedures to be followed in the recording and reporting of accidents,
dangerous occurrences and near misses in the workplace. RIDDOR requires that employers keep an
accident book to record accidents and near misses and that these books are made available to HSE,
local authorities or ORR inspectors. Employers need to collect enough information. This enables them
to manage health and safety, conduct risk assessments and develop solutions to potential risks.
Reporting and recording are legal requirements. This means they can identify where and how risks arise
and whether they need to be investigated. It also allows HSE and local authorities to target their work
and provide advice on how to avoid work-related deaths, injuries, ill health and accidental loss. In form
first part is completed by employees and second part by supervision. Employee will fill up the
employee’s details, injuries details, medical treatment require and events leading up to injuries. And
supervision will fill up witness details, how accidents happened etc. Information on accidents, incidents
and ill health can be used as an aid to risk assessment, helping to develop solutions to potential risks.
Records also help to prevent injuries and ill health, and control costs from accidental loss.

Employers should record the following incidents


• Accidents, occupational disease or any dangerous occurrence requiring RIDDOR reporting;
• Any other administrative incidents causing injuries " which result in an employee unable to attend
work or incapacitated for more than three consecutive days.
• Any other administrative incidents causing injuries which result in an employee being unable to
attend work or immobilized for further than three consecutive days.
Work-related deaths: A work related death or situation where there is a strong likelihood of death
following incidents related to work should be reported to out of hour’s duty officers.

• Working activity must have contributed to the accident. A work-related accident is recognized when
one of following does have a role.
• Accidents involving visitor and contractors must be investigated by the safety staff member to
whom it was reported, in conjunction with staff member they are visiting or working with.
• Accidents which involve employees unable to work for 3 days must be noticed by IR1 form of HSA.
• The manner in which the work was held out.

Reportable injury:
• Injuries that are likely to lead to reduced sight or permanent loss of sight.
• Crush injuries to the head or chest causing damage to the brain or internal organs. Serious burns
which covers more than 10 percent of the body and Results of severe damage to the eyes,
respiratory system or other organs.
• Amputations of certain parts of the body, such as legs.

Gas related incidents:


• Death, loss of consciousness or hospitalization in the event of an injury linked to gas must be
reported for instance
• Incomplete combustion of gas.
• Accidental gas leakage.
• Inadequate removal of gas combustion products.

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