Your Site Name

Health and Safety Induction

Training

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Topics covered in Induction

H&S Law Policy/H&S Representatives

Accident/Incident Reporting
First Aid Facilities
PPE (Personal Protective Footwear, Clothing & Equipment)
Fire Evacuation Procedure/Emergency Exits/Assembly Points
C.O.S.H.H. (Chemical/Hazardous Materials)
Manual Handing
Specific Site Risks
a) Electricity
b) Transport, Internal and External
c) Hand Arm Vibration

Signage
Risk Assessments
Display Screen Equipment
Welfare Facilities
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Defining Health and Safety

Health is defined as both physical and mental

wellbeing.

Ill health can include physical injuries and

medical ailments.

Safety is the control of unplanned events.

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Overall Aims & Objectives of

Health & Safety Induction

To ensure safety requirements are appreciated by all

employees of Your Company Name

To enable you to identify hazards that you are exposed

to and control these hazards.

To enable you to seek positive improvements in your

own health & safety through education.

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Why Are We Doing This?

Humane - An employee should not have to expect that by coming to work they
are risking life or limb, and nor should others affected by their undertaking.

Economic - legal fees, fines, compensatory damages, investigation time, lost

production, lost goodwill from the workforce, and lost goodwill from
customers.

Legal - We have a duty under the law to ensure, so far as is reasonably

practicable, the health, safety and welfare at work of all our employees.
In other words, the degree of risk in a particular job or workplace needs to be
balanced against time, trouble, cost and the physical difficulty of taking
measures to avoid or reduce the risk. What the law requires here is what good
management and common sense would lead you to do anyway: that is, to look
at what the risks are and take sensible measures to tackle them.

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What is Health & Safety?

No accidents.

Absence of disease and illness.

Physical and mental wellbeing.

Accident prevention is everyone's responsibility

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The Health & Safety at Work

etc Act 1974
Employers MUST so far as is reasonably practicable:

Ensure the Health, Safety & Welfare of all its

employees.
Provide a written statement of their Health &
Safety policy.
Consult with employees representatives.

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Policy
Info on your companies
policy

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The Health & Safety at Work

etc Act 1974
Employees MUST so far as is reasonably practicable:
Take reasonable care of their own Health & Safety.
Take reasonable care for the Health and Safety of
anyone who may be affected by their own acts or
omissions.
Co-operate with their employer to enable the
fulfilment of statutory obligations.

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How Do We Handle Health &

Safety?

Risk Assessments

Safe Ways of Working

Control Measures

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