Contents:
List of abbreviations viii
List of figures xi
List of tables xii
Accident and ill health costs and losses 3
Accident and ill health data 7
Accidents and accident prevention 9
Accident reporting, recording and investigation 19
Approved Codes of Practice and HSE Guidance Notes 35
Asbestos 37
Benchmarking 47
Biological agents 51
Chains, ropes and lifting tackle 59
Children at work 63
Common law liability 65
Competent persons 69
Confined spaces 75
Construction safety 77
Consultation on health and safety 85
Contractors and visitors on site 91
Corporate liability and corporate manslaughter 95
Courts and tribunals 97
Damage control 105
Dermatitis 107
Disobedience and disregard for safety 111
Display screen equipment 115
Documentation requirements 123
Duties, hierarchy of 129
Duty of care 131
Electrical installations 135
Emergency procedures 143
Employee handbooks 151
Enforcement procedures 153
Ergonomics 161
Fire prevention 169
First aid 187
Gross misconduct (health and safety) 193
Hazard reporting 197
Hazardous substances 201
Health and Safety at Work etc Act 1974 219
Health and safety practitioners 225
Health risk assessment 229
Health surveillance and health protection 233
Home working 241
Human error 245
Human factors and safety 249
Information for employees 255
Information, instruction and training 257
Information sources 261
Insurance 269
Job safety analysis 275
Lead at work 281
Lifting operations, machinery and equipment 287
Lifts 295
Lighting in the workplace 303
Lone workers 313
Machinery and work equipment 317
Maintenance operations 343
Manual handling operations 347
Mechanical handling 359
Method statements 367
Mobile work equipment 371
Negligence 379
New or expectant mothers 383
Noise 385
Occupational diseases and conditions 399
Occupational exposure limits 407
Occupational hygiene 413
Occupiers’ liability 415
Passport schemes 423
Permit to work systems 427
Personal protective equipment 435
Portable electrical appliances 445
Powered working platforms 453
Power presses 457
Pressure systems 459
Product liability 465
Radiation and radiological protection 473
Risk assessment 479
Safety budgets 491
Safety committees 493
Safety culture 497
Safety data (hazardous substances) 501
Safety incentive schemes 503
Safety management systems 505
Safety monitoring systems 525
Safety propaganda 531
Safety signs 533
Shared workplaces 537
Smoking at work 539
Statements of health and safety policy 541
Stress at work 545
Structural safety 553
Temperature control in the workplace 561
Temporary workers 563
Toxicology 565
Traffic management on site 573
Ventilation in the workplace 579
Vibration 587
Vicarious liability 591
Violence at work 593
Welding and similar operations (‘Hot work’) 601
Welfare amenity provisions 611
Work at height 621
Work away from base 625
Work in compressed air 629
Young persons 635
