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If you employ anyone, you must either:
The poster explains British health and safety laws and lists what is required by employers, employees and what to do if there is a problem.
You can also adds the details of any safety representatives or health and safety contacts such as consultants and / or inspectors.
Insurance
If your business has employees, you will probably need employers' liability insurance.
If an employee is injured or becomes ill as a result of the work they do for you, they can claim compensation from you.
Employers' liability insurance will help you to pay any compensation.
Health & Safety Policy
The law says that every business must have a policy for managing health and safety. If you have five or more employees, you must write your policy down. If you have fewer than five employees you do not have to write anything down, but it is useful to do so.
You must share the policy, and any changes to it, with your employees.
A health and safety policy sets out your general approach to health and safety. It explains how you, as an employer, will manage health and safety in your business.
It should clearly say who does what, when and how.
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This is used to assess the risks posed by lifting, lowering, carrying and team manual handling activities. It is designed to help you understand, interpret and categorise the level of risk of various known risk factors associated with manual handling activities.
The Manual Handling Assessment Charts - MAC tool - Click Here
This is used with the MAC tool to assess manual handling operations where the load weights are variable. You may not need to use the V-MAC as it is more complex than is needed for assessing many manual handling operations. It is best suited for order picking and distribution systems which can automatically generate the data for importing into the V-MAC.
The Variable Manual Handling Assessment Chart - V-MAC tool - Click Here
This is designed to help assess repetitive tasks involving the upper limbs. It assesses some of the common risk factors in repetitive work that contribute to the development of upper limb disorders.
The Assessment of Repetitive Tasks tool - ART tool - Click Here
This is designed to take you through the issues that you need to consider when pushing and pulling. Push-pull tasks can often be ignored because they are often seen as solutions for manual handling – put the load onto a trolley and push it – but there are still issues of distance, uneven surfaces, obstructions, slopes/stairs etc.
All of these tools incorporate a numerical and a colour-coding score system to highlight high-risk tasks.
The Risk Assessment of Pushing and Pulling tool – RAPP tool -
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