Practical Health and Safety Management for Small Businesses

Looking at the needs of small businesses, this book takes you through all the aspects of Health and Safety management in a small business step-by-step. It takes a straightforward, practical approach to identifying, organising and managing Health, Safety and Fire risks in your business. Whatever your motivation for choosing this guide, it will provide a sound basis for establishing a system or approach that is relevant to the individual business concerned. Practical Health and Safety Management for Small Businesses will help you to identify all the potential hazards, offering advice on how best to look after your employees and how to manage Health and Safety in your business. It has been produced as a direct result of recent research, based on discussions with Health and Safety Inspectors, the Fire Authorities, Insurance representatives, Health and Safety professionals, and of course, Small Businesses themselves. Taking into account the practical issues faced in small business units, this guide takes you through all the main aspects of managing fire, health and safety step-by-step.Practical Health and Safety Management for Small Businesses will help you establish a system that you can maintain, add-to and keep up-to-date as official regulations and your needs change. It is NOT a legal textbook, but IS a practical guide on how to establish an approach to organising and managing these issues. While following this guide cannot guarantee that your business now fully complies with all the relevant legislation that applies to it, it does enable you to demonstrate to others that you have made a reasonable attempt at bringing all these different elements together in a structured, holistic way.Full of practical advice sample Site Plans and Checklists, photographs and industry-specific sections, Practical Health and Safety Management for Small Businesses will prove an invaluable gui

Part 1 Context; Introduction; Chapter 1 Your business; Chapter 2 The premises; Chapter 3 Processes and movement of goods through the business; Part 2 Controlling Safety Risks; Chapter 4 Safety and security hazards; Chapter 5 Assessing the safety risks; Chapter 6 Controls in place to reduce risks; Part 3 Controlling Health Risks; Chapter 7 Health hazards; Chapter 8 Assessing the health risks; Chapter 9 Health controls in place to reduce risks; Part 4 Controlling Fire Risks; Chapter 10 Fire hazards; Chapter 11 Assessing fire risks; Chapter 12 Fire controls in place to reduce risks; Part 5 Effective Management of Fire, Health and Safety Risks in the Business; Chapter 13 Managing the risks; Chapter 14 Your policy; Chapter 15 Conclusion; Part 6 Industry-specific Hazards and Risks; Chapter 16 Case study examples; Chapter 17 Sources of advice and guidance;

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Jacqueline Jeynes

'the point is well made that any safety management system should be considered as an integral part of the business management structure.....this is a good book for any employer to read'Safety and Health Practitioner, Feb. 2001'..a very useful book that is short on words, long on information and easy to read.' Health and Safety Review, November 2000'a user friendly guide specially designed with the smaller company in mind. The advice that is given in all the chapters is both sound and practical. It will be referred to repeatedly to check and develop the company health and safety strategy as time goes on..clearly the work of an expert in the field.'Fire Prevention, October 2000