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What is Legionella Risk Assessment?

Risk assessments are a UK health and safety legal requirement imposed upon employers, so they must be conducted appropriately. Risk assessments do not have to be time consuming and costly, though they must be carried out in the appropriate manner to protect all individuals from risks related to legionella.

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What are the Legal Duties to Control Legionella?

UK health and safety legislation has specific provisions stated for the control of legionella within the workplace, to ensure that all individuals are protected. It is an employer’s legal duty to comply with all of these health and safety provisions, and ensure employees are aware of all relevant UK health and safety legislation.

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How can you Prevent Legionella in the Workplace?

Legionella is a type of bacteria found in water systems which can create fatal diseases, such as legionnaires’ disease, so it must be monitored within water systems. It is an employer’s legal health and safety requirement to control legionella in the workplace, and training in the prevention methods is essential.

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Why Must Hazardous Substances Be Controlled?

With 13,000 deaths a year attributed to exposure to hazardous substances, controlling them effectively is very important. Learn about the effects hazardous substances have on human health and the environment here.

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What is the Legislation Related to Hazardous Substances?

Hazardous substances are regulated by several pieces of legislation, most notably COSHH and DSEAR. Get the facts on hazardous substances legislation and what employers need to do to comply with them.

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What is the Control of Substances Hazardous to Health (COSHH)?

What is COSHH? What do employers need to do to comply with COSHH? Find out more about the primary piece of hazardous substances legislation in the UK.

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What are the Effects of Exposure to Hazardous Substances?

From minor rashes to fatal diseases, there are hundreds of potential consequences to encountering hazardous substances. Learn about the short term, long term and environmental effects of exposure here.

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What are Hazardous Substances?

What counts as a hazardous substance and what must employers do to protect their staff from the dangers? Read more about common types of workplace hazardous substances and the legislation that regulates them here.

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What Are Control Measures For Hazardous Substances?

What does a COSHH risk assessment need to achieve and what sort of control measures need to be in place to protect your employees? Read more about introducing control measures for hazardous substances in the workplace.

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Who is Responsible for Ensuring that there are Risk Assessments in your Organisation?

Risk assessments are an important part of any organisation’s health and safety strategy. Far from being “just another

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What is Working at Height?

Any task that carries a risk of personal injury from a fall counts as “working at height”. In

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What is Working at Height Legislation?

“Working at height” means doing any job where the person could be injured by falling. This includes work

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What is Ground Level Working at Height?

Our related Courses When most people think of “working at height”, they might picture construction workers high on

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What Different Access Equipment can be used when Working at Height?

Working at height can be a dangerous part of a worker’s occupation. Responsible for 8% of non-fatal accidents

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What are the Work at Height Regulations 2005?

The Work at Height Regulations 2005 came into effect on 6th April 2005 with the aim of reducing

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What Should a Company’s Due Diligence in Travel Safety Include?

“Due diligence” refers to the steps employers can take in advance to remove or minimise any foreseeable health

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What is Corporate Travel?

Corporate travel – also known as business travel – refers to any journey undertaken for the purposes of

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What is a Security Review?

Business travel is an important and often enjoyable part of a huge number of jobs, but it isn’t

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