E-Books: Managing Health and Safety Learning made simple by Jacqueline Jeynes. Managing health and safety effectively outlines the basic principles that underpin effective health and safety management, identifying hazards, assessing risks, and making sure adequate controls are in place to safeguard people from harm. It assumes the reader has experience in a workplace, perhaps with some basic health and safety risk awareness. It is vital, therefore, that everyone understands their role in managing health and safety risks.

Managing Health and Safety Learning made simple by Jacqueline Jeynes. Managing health and safety effectively outlines the basic principles that underpin effective health and safety management, identifying hazards, assessing risks, and making sure adequate controls are in place to safeguard people from harm. It assumes the reader has experience in a workplace, perhaps with some basic health and safety risk awareness. It is vital, therefore, that everyone understands their role in managing health and safety risks.

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Managing health and safety effectively in the workplace is often seen as the responsibility of a designated ‘expert’. However, everyone in the organization has the responsibility for making sure their actions do not cause harm or injury to others. It is vital, therefore, that everyone understands their role in managing health and safety risks

This Learning Made Simple guide outlines the basic principles that underpin effective health and safety management, identifying hazards, assessing risks, and making sure adequate controls are in place to safeguard people from harm. It assumes the reader has experience in a workplace, perhaps with some basic health and safety risk awareness.

It is intended to help the reader identify hazards and risks associated with their own workplace, making sure that they (and other workers) take appropriate actions to eliminate or reduce these risks. While it covers the main elements associated with managing H&S in certificate or diploma courses such as those offered by NEBOSH and CIEH for instance, it does not cover specific regulations in detail.

It is primarily a practical tool to help team leaders, supervisors and managers ensure their own health and safety as well as that of others in their team. I hope that you find it useful in your workplace.

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Many people refer to Health & Safety as commonsense and say there is too much regulation. To some extent, this is a reasonable statement, but it is also true that one person’s commonsense is not the same as another’s it develops over time as you experience life at home and at work.
Everyone perceives risk in a different way, depending on age, life experiences, health and safety expertise, skills, and, in some cases, gender.
Case study
In January 2007 several companies were found guilty of failing to ensure the safety of a worker who fell to his death through a roof light when working on a fragile asbestos cement roof. The HSE (Health and Safety Executive) brought the prosecution, stating:
“It was only Mr. Moran’s second day and he had not worked on a site before. He had been given no training or protection and was paid cash in hand. It was a shambles of a job.”If you run a business or work for a company where you have some
responsibility for health and safety, you cannot rely on the presumed commonsense of others to keep everyone safe from harm or injury.

Health and Safety Management covers the main principles of good occupational health and safety (OH&S) management including risk assessment, responsibilities, and typical ways to record your findings.
There may be particular hazards in your workplace that need more formal assessment by a specialist – for example, air monitoring or fibre sampling and testing – but the basic principles should allow you to
establish a sound system for managing OH&S risks in your workplace.