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Unit 1: Foundations in Health & Safety Part 2
- Common Words:
- Duty of care - a duty towards others to protect them from harm from your acts or
omissions that is reasonably foreseeable.
- Mandatory Duty - non-negotiable duty imposed by the organisation
- Absolute Duty- non-negotiable duty imposed by legislation through the terms of shall or must
- Practicable Duty- duty to comply that is limited by what is achievable when considering current knowledge
irrespective of time, effort or cost
- Reasonably Practicable- cost/ benefit analysis or risk benfit trade off. Considering the time, effort and cost to implement
measures to reduce risk.
- Prescribed Disease- specified ill-health contracted as a result of exposure to work related hazards
- Chronic- effect due to multiple exposures to small quanties over a long period of time
- Acute- Immediate effect due to single exposure over a short period of more pronouced substances
- Unsafe Condition - any hazard not
involving the acts of an individual
- Unsafe Act- Hazards involving the actions of people
- Risk- the likelihood of harm occuring from a hazard
- Risk Rating- The degree of risk
- Risk
Management -
identify hazard
and manage
the risk by
elimination or
reduction
- Negligence- failure to exercise duty of care
considered reasonable
- Duty of care - a duty towards others to protect them from harm from your acts or
omissions that is reasonably foreseeable.
- Moral, Leagl and Financial Reasons for H&S
- Key Words:
- Moral - accidents resulting in injuries cause pain and
suffering for those affected
- Legal - it is a legal requirment to
safeguard H&S of workers and others
that are affected by your activities.
- Moral - accidents resulting in injuries cause pain and
suffering for those affected
- Key Words:
- Reasons for preventing accidents:
- Poor business conduct
- Damage reputation
- Long term future of organisation
- Direct Costs - measurable costs arising from acciddent. e.g. insurance costs, claim from court, fines,
loss of production, damage to equipment or products
- Claims from civil court or criminal, sick pay, repairs or replacement of damaged equipment or goods.
- Claims from civil court or criminal, sick pay, repairs or replacement of damaged equipment or goods.
- Indirect Costs- these may arise as a consequence of an accident. e.g. lost time of
employees, lost time of management, lost orders, corporate image damaged
- Indirect Costs- largly unknown. Loss of production, downtime machinery, difficulities in recruitment, increased overheads
- Indirect Costs- largly unknown. Loss of production, downtime machinery, difficulities in recruitment, increased overheads
- Poor business conduct
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