Safe Working Practices: A guide to infectious diseases in hospital & care homes. For reasons of Health and Safety for all patients and healthcare workers, good working practice must be adopted at all times, regardless of whether or not a risk of infection has been identified in the patient. healthcare-cleaning-procedure
Once fall hazards have been identified by a competent person, fall hazard elimination should be considered first. This is typically known as “engineering out the hazard” and con- sists of redesigning the working environment and the work processes and procedures. Fall_UseGuide-2015
The purpose of this report was to provide an overview of the most important issues related to occupational safety and health for cleaning workers, to highlight the main trends and issues regarding the working conditions, hazard exposure and health outcomes, to identify gaps in knowledge and information available, and to formulate recommendations for future studies.…
The severity of the injuries will be determined by the person’s impact velocity, which will depend on the height of the fall, the nature of the impact surface and the part of the body that strikes the surface. It is intended for use by employers, employees and self-employed persons who use personal fall protection systems…
Repetitive Strain Injury (RSI) is caused by repeated physical movements that cause ongoing damage to muscles, ligaments, tendons, nerves, fascia, circulatory structures, and other soft-tissues. Active Release Techniques provides a means to effectively and rapidly resolve these stressful repetitive strain injuries without surgical intervention. release-your-pain-resolving-repetitive-strain-inju
This information will help employers (including the self-employed and franchisees) comply with the Control of Substances Hazardous to Health Regulations 2002 (COSHH), as amended, to control exposure and protect workers’ health. SR01
Important information as a go-to guide when working with pressure washers as given out by hire centres.
Serious Hand Injury from High Pressure Washer Machine. An operative received serious injuries to his hand, after coming into contact with pressured water from a portable high pressure water jetting unit situated on site.
A secondary guarding device is a piece of equipment which can be fitted to a Mobile Elevating Work Platform (MEWP) in addition to the primary guarding systems.
The Authorised Manual of St John Ambulance, St Andrew’s First Aid and the British Red Cross. First aiders are advised to keep up-to-date with developments, to recognise the limits of their competence and to obtain first-aid training from a qualified trainer.