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What Hazards and Risks are there in the Workplace?

There can be a range of hazards and risks in the workplace, and you need to consider which of them are specific to your workplace. These hazards can be identified through the use of a risk assessment, followed by the implementation of control measures to protect against hazards and risks.

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What are the Health And Safety Executive’s ‘Five Steps’ to Risk Assessment?

The Health and Safety Executive (HSE) has published five steps to risk assessment in order to offer guidance and ensure risk assessments are carried out properly. Risk assessments are a legal requirement and the HSE take their role of enforcing risk assessments and health and safety standards seriously.

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What are Control Measures?

Control measures are the protective precautions put into place to protect individuals from the risks and hazards that exist within the workplace. Therefore, control measures are an essential part of risk assessments within organisations. Knowledge and training of all types of control measures is essential.

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What is Work-Related Violence and Aggression?

The UK Health and Safety Executive (HSE) define work-related violence as any incident in which a person is abused, threatened or assaulted in the workplace. There has been a serious crackdown on incidents of violence and aggression in the workplace, meaning it is an employer’s responsibility to monitor this conduct.

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What is Personal Protective Equipment (PPE)?

Personal protective equipment is essentially the equipment which can be used to protect an individual against health and safety risks in the workplace. It is a UK health and safety requirement for employers to enforce the use of personal protective equipment in the workplace.

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What is a Risk?

Risk can be defined as the chance or probability that a person will be injured or experience an adverse health effect as a result of exposure to a hazard. In the workplace, there is no toleration under UK law for hazards and the subsequent risks to exist within the workplace as they will cause harm to others.

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What is a Hazard?

According to definitions by COSHH a hazard in the workplace is any source of potential damage, harm or adverse health effects on something or someone. UK businesses and organisations have the legal duty to protect all individuals from hazards in the workplace, ensuring it remains a safe environment to work in.

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The Legislative Responsibility of Employers Concerning Personal Safety

The UK legislative responsibilities of employers concerning personal safety is stated within the Health and Safety at Work Act 1974 and the Management of Health and Safety at Work Regulations. UK legislation takes health and safety in businesses and organisations very seriously, and therefore employers must comply.

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Legislation around Self-Defence in a Potentially Violent Situation

Prevention of violence in the workplace is the legislative responsibility of an employer. However, if it does occur, self-defence can be used under certain conditions. Risk assessments must be conducted by employers to prevent violence from occurring within the workplace.

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Information Quality in the Workplace

Having good quality of information means that you keep records to a high standard so that they are

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How to Effectively Manage the Four Stages of a Record’s Lifecycle

Related Courses If organisations manage their records well, it makes it so much easier to make sound, evidence-based

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Omnitrack version 2.60.0

Track time spent in a specific status The form overview dashboard now allows you to track the amount

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How to create a Compliance Culture

How to create a Compliance Culture in your organisation The term ‘compliance culture’ isn’t new; for years we’ve

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How to streamline administration on your LMS/LXP

In order to reduce administration time, it’s important to get to grips with your eLearning platform’s automated features

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How to improve knowledge retention rates

eLearning retention rates can be a tricky business – it’s not enough to just present learners with information

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On-demand webinar: ESG – Understanding reporting frameworks

ESG can feel like a complex and confusing topic, from finding the right data to track to aligning

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Using scenarios to promote learning effectiveness

Using scenarios to promote learning effectiveness In this video we take a closer look at scenario-based learning and

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What is Social Engineering?

Social engineering is another technique used by hackers to gain personal data from individuals through unauthorised access. This

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