20 Essential Health and Safety Tips

Health & Safety Advisor Bonus Report

Use these 20 health and safety tips to remind your employees about health and safety in your company. It includes tips on Health and Safety Representatives and committees to Personal Protective Equipment.
 

20 essential health and safety tipsContent:

  • Contractors in the workplace
  • Construction: Procedures to follow when undertaking construction work
  • Employer obligations
  • Employee obligations
  • First aid
  • Health and safety representatives
  • Health and safety committees
  • Health and safety policy
  • Incidents: Procedures to follow
  • Incidents: Reporting them and claiming from the Compensation Fund
  • Inspections: Health and safety
  • Personal protective equipment
  • Record keeping

Contractors in the Workplace

Tip #1:

Ensure that the principle contractor has made provision for the cost of health and safety in his tenders. Also, ensure that contractors are medically fit – in terms of medical surveillance – by insisting on a medical examination at their expense. See section M01 for more information regarding medical surveillance.

Construction: Procedures to follow when undertaking construction work

Tip #2:

An agreement between the client/his agent and the principal contractor isn’t a legal requirement but it will offer the client or his agent protection regarding the principal contractor’s actions.

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