Swimming Pool and Spa Safety
- Safe storage of chemicals (COSHH).
- Adequate training of staff.
- Adequate supervision of the pool by lifeguards.
- Adequate water disinfection.
- Regular daily testing of the water and recording such tests.
- Adequate signage for warnings.
- All facilities should be protected against unauthorised entry or use.
Health and Fitness Centers
It is important that users are supervised and receive adequate instruction on any equipment that they use. Equipment must be correctly installed, properly maintained and inspected regularly.
Accidents
certain accidents must be reported to the Local authority under the requirements of the Reporting of Injuries, Diseases and Dangerous Occurrences Regulations 1995 (RIDDOR). This can be done via contacting the Incident Contact Centre.
The British American tobacco company also has their health and safety policies for the employers and employees. Here are some of the policies they have
Health and Safety Policy
BAT committed to conducting its activities with the health and safety of all employees, contractors and all stakeholders as a fundamental consideration. BAT believes that all injuries and industry related diseases are preventable and therefore strives to continuously improve its health and safety performances.
To meet these commitments, BAT and its contractors shall:
- Manage health and safety matters as a critical business activity;
- Delay or stop activities where effective mitigation controls are not in place to manage identified hazards;
- Apply a systematic approach to all activities that shall demonstrate continual improvement in health and safety performance;
- Assess the health and safety hazards associated with all activities and employ mitigation measures to reduce those hazards;
- Include health and safety performance in the appraisals of staff;
- Require contractors to manage health and safety in line with this policy;
- Set targets and regularly monitor, audit and report performance against those targets; and
- Apply and demonstrate compliance with applicable occupational health and safety laws and regulations.
The Company shall not tolerate any form of discrimination. All team members have the right to work in an environment free of discrimination and harassment. Discrimination undermines proper working relationships and may cause low morale, absenteeism and resignations under federal and State anti-discrimination laws, discrimination in employment.
Employee’s responsibility policy
Ultimately the success of the Company's Health and Safety program will depend on the degree to which all employees accept and participate in the program. All employees have a moral as well as a legal obligation to comply with statutory and Company systems, procedures and rules that are introduced to protect the health and safety of all employees, Company assets, General Public and the Environment. The Directors have the responsibility to establish policy and to adopt procedures to ensure the health and safety of all employees. All Managers and Team leaders have the responsibility to implement these policies and procedures and to enforce their use throughout the Company.
- To perform all work and associated functions in the safest possible manner.
- To obey all lawful written and verbal Health and Safety instructions issued by the Company or its Officers.
- Safety foot wear must be worn at all times while risk to feet exists.
- To use correctly and maintain in serviceable condition, all personal protective clothing and equipment supplied by the company in the appropriate circumstances.
- To be responsible for the security and storage of all personal protective clothing and equipment supplied by the company for their use.
- To cease to operate and report immediately any malfunctioning plant or equipment and not to use such plant and equipment until safeguards are in place or repairs have been made.
- To take corrective action to eliminate hazards within the workplace and/or report those hazards, which the employee him/her self cannot correct.
- To establish and maintain at all times the highest possible standards of housekeeping and cleanliness in individual work areas and on Company property generally.
Workplace bulling is the 'The less favorable treatment of a person by another or others in the workplace, which may be considered unreasonable and inappropriate workplace practice'. It includes sexual harassment, discrimination and behavior that intimidates, offends, degrades or humiliates a worker, possibly in front of co-workers, clients or customers.
BAT takes a very serious view of all acts of violence and or physical assault. Behavior of this type may lead to instant dismissal, Police involvement and be dealt with under the criminal code. This unwelcomed activity in a workplace may cause the loss of trained and talented employees, reduce productivity, moral and create legal risks. This company believes that all employees should be able to work in an environment free from all forms of harassment. Directors and Team Leaders must ensure employees are not put at risk or disadvantaged by the actions of others in the workplace
The directors encourage all staff to report workplace bulling. Team Leaders and Managers are to make sure those employees who make complaints, or who witness an act of bulling are not victimized. Any reports of inappropriate behavior will be treated seriously and investigated promptly, confidentially and impartially.
Sexual harassment policies
It is the policy of BAT to provide a workplace that is free from sexual harassment and to uphold all laws pertaining to sexual harassment.
All team members employed by this company are expected to abide by the relevant rules and regulations.
The Queensland Anti-Discrimination Act 1991 and the federal Sex Discrimination Act 1984 prohibits sexual harassment. Sexual harassment is illegal and BAT does not tolerate it.
Sexual Harassment is very serious. It is any form of unwanted, unwelcomed or uninvited sexual behavior, which is or might be offensive, humiliating, intimidating or embarrassing to another person. Sexual harassment can take various forms and be obvious or indirect, physical or verbal.
Conduct of this nature does not have to be repeated or continuous to be against the law. Some actions are so offensive they constitute sexual harassment without being repeated.
Listed below are some examples of sexual harassment:
- Unwelcomed physical touching;
- Sex based insults/ taunts;
- The display of material that another person may find sexually offensive i.e Books, Posters, Screen savers, Artifacts ect.
- Subjecting another person to conduct of a sexual nature through offensive communications, including telephone calls, letters, faxes & e-mail;
- Making any requests for sexual favours, Unwelcome sexual advances or unwanted invitations;
- Making remarks or insinuations of a sexual nature relating to another person such as suggestive comments, jokes or innuendo.
- The invasion of another person's privacy by staring, leering or asking questions about their private life.
Smoke free workplace policies.
There is strong scientific evidence that passive smoking is hazardous to health. In accordance with its legal obligations to protect the health and safety of those who work and visit this site, BAT has developed the following smoke-free workplace policy:
P2 describe the requirements for a health and safe workplace as applied to the physical environment and equipment used in a selected industry.
Managers have legal and more responsibilities to attend to their employee health and safety at work. Managers must introduce and apply safeguards and procedures guaranteeing the physical security and welfare of employees.
Working conditions
Polyfarma is Pharmaceutical Company that produce prescribed medication for people in need/ they focus on the physical environment and equipment such as the equipment, the materials, hygiene facilities and also the ventilation system and safety equipment which is important. Polyfarma would have consulted the workplace health and safety legislation governing in the area. They would have to advise their employees of these requirements, by doing that they will need the necessary training and demonstrate clearly there commitments to a healthy and safe work environment. Government agencies will advise the company on the legally requirements and will want an invitation to review the companies’ procedures and help them develop workable policies. Polyfarma will find an employee willing to assume the role of a health and safety officer; they are demanded on finding an employee on doing that. So the trained employee will play an invaluable role implementing they health and safety program for the company.
The building
The company has evacuation route in case something goes wrong. The floor is special the flooring is in concrete and has to different colors on it. The blue section means that the medicine has been produced and is being controlled and the grey section means that this is the warehouse and that you should watch where you are going. Since the products are on wheel carriages the flooring is anti slip so that no one will fall or even the products. A healthy and safe workplace is the responsibility of everyone in the company.
Hygiene Company.
Is it important the building is kept clean and that the employer and employees are hygienic. The company works with medicine and this medication will have to be used people who are sick. The building gets clean everyday by a company that send their cleaning crew who is specials in cleaning that type of building since there are four toilet areas for the employees to used they make sure to have it clean with the right type of cleaning supplies. It has soap dispenser in the toilets because it’s appropriate for everyone to wash their hands before entering the cabins to work on medicine. The offices get cleans, the cabins were we work in get clean every Friday’s this is because sometime it would take us to finish off the products on the next day., since Friday is the last day of the week, employee make sure before closing time to have products off and prepare for the cleaners to come in and clean the cabins. The company also has an cantine which an employee her self’s washes the dishes and cleans the table at least four time in the day right after break and lunch.
Materials
There are materials that the company gives each employee to work with which is a knife, tweezers, glue, scissors and an object that is called “priem” which is used for taking out the old instruction papers for the medication so new one can be add. If someone gets cut by a knife, they will rush you to the bathroom call an assistant with a first aid kit and take care if your wound, if the wound is worse and they cannot manage that at work they will need to send you to the company’s doctor. Polyfarma provides opportunities for employees to be involved. Employees must know that management is committed to occupational health and safety and all workers should act in the company’s best interest. Polyfarma keeps safety records that will use to judge their company. They do this because some potential employees will think twice about working in an organization that is not serious about the health and safety of its employees. So if employees can review the company statistic, they can see the health and safety issues have been dealt with satisfactory. The company must make sure that their procedures are documented and are carried out during any accidents. Their first concern should always be the health and safety of their staff, since it is a production company, they don’t have customers coming in. their procedures should always be reviewed after an accident occurred and try making changes that will prevent the accident from happening again. They will keep a detailed record of the accident for possible workers compensation claims or future corrective action. They provide any rehabilitation necessary and recognize any significant achievements in coping with the incident.
Temperature / ventilation
Since the building is a warehouse the temperature of the building must be kept on the right temperature so that it won’t contaminate the medication we get in and keep them cool. If it’s hot they make sure that the air co is one everyday even through the weekends where someone comes in and check out to make sure nothing is on fire or harmed.
P3 Outline the rules and responsibilities for health and safety of key personnel in a selected workplace.
P4 describe the procedures designed to indentify, monitor and prevent health and safety hazards in a selected workplace.
Polyfarma would need to work out how people could be harmed. When you work in a place every day it is easy to overlook some hazards. Here are ways that they can help identify them.
Indentifying, monitor and Prevention
- Walk around the workplace and look at what could reasonably be expected to cause harm
- Ask employees what they think. They may have noticed things that are not immediately obvious to you.
- Check manufactures instruction or date sheets for chemicals and equipment as they can be very helpful in spelling out hazards and putting them in their true perspective.
- Always look back at accident and ill health records these often help to indentify the less obvious hazards
- Create a spreadsheet to record possible health and safety hazards in the business. Once recorded, the company can make a plan to deal with them. So you can always check the business room by room.
- Check for slipping and tripping hazards, because the cause of injuries in workplaces was caused mostly by tripping. So check for cords across floors, rugs that are loose or low steps that hasn’t been marked.
- Always check the air, sometimes; heating ducts are neglected by the cleaning crew. It’s good for employees so they don’t be breathing contaminated air.
- Check access to restrooms. Keeping things sanitary in the workplace is one of the ways to cut down illness. Make sure rest rooms are cleaned and stocked up with supplies and implement hand-washing rules as well.
- It is always too good to check if employees are following general safety tips. Such as lifting items correctly, handling dangerous items and using safety equipment properly
- Since Polyfarma deals with chemicals, it is good for them to limit access to harmful chemicals and tools. Since the company deals with hazardous chemicals, they need to make sure they are properly locked up when not in use. If an accidental exposure happens they need to make sure have the harmful cleaning supplies.
- Always to check the smoking alarms, making sure they are working so once a fire breaks out the fire department will be notified at once.
- Always making sure that there are enough fire extinguishers close to every exit or seen in the eyes of the employees
Inspection
Every year Polyfarma gets to inspection dates for the inspection company to come and inspect the business area. This usually happen in May and November. A group of men will come in and then they will walk around making sure the lighting is correct, the building is clean and to see if employee have knowledge of what they are doing because they ask questions. The reason why they come twice a year is because if the company doesn’t have the requirements in order they will have a second chance to make it better. If they don’t follow up to the requirements from the inspection company they will shut down the company and they will be out of business.
Insurance
The company needs to make sure that their insurance is up to date this is because they are dealing with thousands of medication popular ones such as Viagra, if a thief here that there is Viagra in the building they can come in and steal and sell those Viagra in the market. So the type of insurance they will need to take out is:
- Cargo insurance- this is to make sure that their medication is covered from shipping overseas
- Property insurance- making sure the property is secured so if someone break in they will be able to be fixed fast as possible
Focusing on continuous improvements should always be on the company’s head, once it comes to health and safety in the business. When or if a problem occurs they should initiate corrective actions that will ensure there is no recurrence of any problems. The importance of documented procedures cannot be over emphasized.
P5 explain the procedure for carrying out a risk assessment in a selected workplace.
A risk assessment is an important step in protecting your workers and your business, a well as complying with the law. A risk assessment is simply a careful examination of what, in your work, could cause harm to people, so that you can weigh up whether you have taken enough precautions or should do more to prevent harm. Workers and others have a right to be protected from harm caused by a failure to take reasonable control measures. Accidents and ill health can ruin lives and affect your business if output is lost, machinery is damaged, insurance costs increase or you have to go to court. You are legally required to assess the risks in your workplace so you must put plans in place to control risks.
According to the Health and Safety Risk Assessment Procedure documents for Polyfarma should have the first details that have to be recorded are:
- The Company’s name,
- Description of what is being assessed,
- The name of the assessor,
- The date of the assessment,
- The assessor’s signature,
- A suggested review date.
The assessor which is the manager will be the person who has experience in the work area, task, activity or process in order to make an objective and suitable examination. Once the assessor has been chosen, one must identify the persons who may be at risk due to their work area, task, activity or process. Those persons could be employees, trainees, students, contractors, visitors and the general public. Their possible risk may occur from work equipment, property, materials or environment. Identifying those persons is the first step of the assessment process.
What should the company look at when it comes to a risk assessment? They need to make sure:
- To indentify the hazards, the manager will then:
- Read more on the health and safety at work at work publication to learn where hazards can occur
- Walked around the warehouse, noting activities that might be posed a risk and taking into consideration what was learnt from their HSE’s guidance.
- Talked through the issues with the union safety representative and asked about concerns that staff had on health and safety.
- Talk to supervisors to learn from their detailed knowledge of particular jobs and areas and look at the accident book to gather information past problems.
- The manager then wrote down who could be harmed by the hazards and how.
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For each hazard identified, the manager recorded what controls, if any, were in place to manage these. She then compared these controls to the good practice guidance laid out in Warehousing and storage: A guide to health and safety and Essentials of health and safety at work publications. Where existing controls did not meet good practice, the manager wrote down what further actions were needed to manage the risk.
- Putting the findings of the risk assessment into practice, the warehouse manager decided who was responsible for implementing the further actions and when it should be done. She wrote this down and when each action was completed it was ticked off and the date recorded
- The warehouse manager discussed the findings with the safety representative. They decided to review and update the assessment at least annually, or at any time when major changes to the workplace occurred. The warehouse manager gave out copies of the risk assessment to all members of staff.
In this next page you will see how the risk assessment is being monitored and by who in the department.