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1. Your Site Name Health and Safety Induction Training

2. 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

3. 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.

4. 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.

5. 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.

6. What is Health & Safety? • No accidents. • Absence of disease and illness. • Physical and mental wellbeing. “Accident prevention is everyone's responsibility”

7. 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.

8. PolicyInfo on your companies policy

9. 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.

10. How Do We Handle Health & Safety? • Risk Assessments • Safe Ways of Working • Control Measures