eSign PPT for Sales Teams Safe

ESign PPT for Sales Teams Safe

okay welcome everyone I'm going to try and get through this pretty quickly this is the second go at this I did one and it lasted half an hour's we're going to talk a lot faster when I do this one okay welcome to theory topic E which is health and safety so by the end of this unit you should have a knowledge of the framework related to materials and equipment using the health and safety at Work Act otherwise known as hassle you should be aware of the kosh legislation control of substances hazardous to health you should be aware of the systems that are in place to protect the worker the user and the environment that people work in and you should be aware of what a risk assessment is and how to conduct one so everything that this topic is about all springs from this thing called the health and safety at work out which was passed in 1974 and key phrase in it is employers have a duty to insure so far as is reasonably practical that employees and other visitors are protected at work and not forgetting of course that this is law it is the law that businesses have to do this so the key phrase is so far as is reasonably practical in other words you don't have to go all out to provide safety there is a modicum of common sense within the law itself however there are two organizations who enforce this there is the health and safety commission and the Health and Safety Executive if you think of it really the health and safety commissioner the guys actually down on the streets as it were that do all the proper enforce in all the investigation and the HSE the executive are the ones that advise the government on what to do so there's a few key features of the health and safety at Work Act you can pause the video and read through these at length on your right but essentially it just boils down to these six things here in other words providing a safe workplace safe machinery safe storage of dangerous things first-aid training for people that work there and correct signs that are going to be placed around workplace and just want to draw your attention to this phrase at the end here where it talks about personal protective equipment otherwise known as PPE the reason for that is that you are all familiar with PPE you've worn goggles and aprons maybe you haven't owned a dust mask when you should have done and I doubt if any of you have worn ear defenders unless you've been jigsaw ring a piece of mild steel but if you do get a question in the exam it will just relate to it as PPE and if you do not remember what that stands for you're going to be stuck however key thing to make sure you remember is...