Revision Ngc1

Front 1

The multi-disciplinary nature of Health & Safety

Back 1

Sometimes solution to H&S problem is straightforward. Sometimes complicated and requires application of technical knowledge & thinking.
Involves sciences, sociology, psychology & law

Front 2

In order to understand H&S issue?

Back 2

Technical background & relevant knowledge.
Standards that may apply to workplace & issue under consideration.
Possible strengths & weaknesses to options to solve problem.

Front 3

Barriers to good standards of H&S (1)

Back 3

Complexity:
Co-ordination of many people/different activities.
Finding solution requires extensive background knowledge & awareness of consequences of various courses of action.

Front 4

Barriers to good standards of H&S (2)

Back 4

Conflicting demands:
Commonly, the need to supply product or service at appropriate speed to make a profit safely and without ill health.
Complying with different standards at same time e.g. H&S law v Environmental Protection Law.

Front 5

Barriers to good standards of H&S (3)

Back 5

Behavioural issues:
Good H&S often relies on people to behave in a perfect way. Solution to problem usually involves worker to behave in certain way e.g. staying in a designated walkway. But people deliberately break the rules as well as making mistakes.

Front 6

Define Health

Back 6

Absence of disease or ill health e.g. from asbestos, it may be some years after inhalation.
Also relates to psychological ill health e.g nervous breakdown due to stress.

Front 7

Define safety

Back 7

Absence of risk of serious personal injury. For example walking on an incomplete scaffold can result in a fall and serious injury. Staying off the scaffold results in safety.

Front 8

Define Welfare

Back 8

Access to basic facilities.

First aid provision.
Access to drinking water,
Changing facilities, M/F toilets, washing facilities, seating, lighting, ventilation & where food can be prepared & eaten hygenically.

Front 9

Define environmental protection

Back 9

Prevention of damage to air, land, water & living creatures in the wider environment. Word environment can refer to local area around a particular area or workstation but can be used in a wider context to refer to air land water & creatures.
Subject to legal standards.

Front 10

Moral reason for managing H&S (the size of the problem)

Back 10

220 killed
29,000 major injury
110,000 over 3 day injury
30 million working days lost:
(80% ill health)
(20% injury)
2 million suffer illness from current or past work.
2,000 die from mesothelioma
Thousands more from other lung diseases