Following on from my role as a Health and Safety Executive inspector in assignment 1, I have left the HSE to become a director of my own small engineering manufacturing business (an SME). Unfortunately two of my staff has been involved in an accident in the workshop area involving a collision with a fork-lift truck. One of my worker s was hospitalized with a foot injury. In this assignment I will create a case study that links to this scenario by regarding the necessary methods of reporting and recording of accidents, incidents and near misses.
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Recording of accidents, incidents and emergencies-
It is important that employers keep a record of any accidents, incidents and emergencies that have occurred as it is a legal document enforced by RIDDOR. It provides details such as what caused the injury and who is to blame, this is especially important if the injury is fatal or serious and allows the employer to make sure the hazard is sorted out. The report will be sent to the HSE so they can decide what the risk is, how it happened and if it needs to be investigated by a HSE inspector. The report is also important if an employee would like to start a law suit to sue the company so that the exact time and date can be seen and if it links to the Injury.
Responsibilities of competent persons-
A competent person must provide suitable training to starting employees to make sure they know what they’re doing and all the hazards that could occur plus how to prevent them. Competent
Major injuries including fractures, dislocations, loss of sight, poisoning, unconsciousness and any injury resulting in someone needing resuscitation, any incidents leading to someone having to take a leave of absence from work for more than three days, Reportable injuries such as hepatitis, HIV, meningitis and tuberculosis. Or any potential dangerous occurrences that may not have lead to injury or disease such as fires, needle-stick injury and collapse of lifting equipment. Reporting all these incidents allows the council or HSE to investigate why and how they occurred and ways in which to prevent them happening again in the future.
Under this act, employers are responsible for reporting certain types of incidents, accidents or illnesses to the Health and Safety Exectutive, or the local authority.
1. Describe different types of accidents and sudden illness that may occur in own work setting.
Working as a loss control consultant for XYZ manufacturing company, various aspects of information need to be acquired prior to visiting. Assessing procedures for safety awareness and loss prevention practices, while reporting outcomes, and then deliberating with the underwriters. Within XYZ manufacturing company these areas include the following topics: record logs, the number of workers, ergonomics, the hazard level, training and orientation plans, and previous work recovery programs. Developing a new policy for XYZ manufacturing company will be produced through evaluation and modification of these areas.
The 3rd act I’m going to write about is ‘Reporting of Injuries, Diseases and Dangerous Occurrences Regulations 1995’ It regulates the statutory obligation to report deaths, injuries, diseases and dangerous occurrences that take place at work. Responsible persons are generally employers but also include various managers and occupiers of premises. Though the regulations do not impose a specific obligation on employees, they have a general obligation under section 7 of the Health and Safety at Work etc. Act 1974 to take care of safety. The Health and Safety Executive recommends that they report incidents to their employer and encourages notification to the relevant authority.
Having records of accidents and incidents enables the employer to asses and spot out the risk of health and safety in the environment. In addition, the advantage of recording of incident and accident as it can be used as a reference to be able to back and have evidence of the report.
1.2 Identify the lines of responsibility and reporting for health and safety in the work setting
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Reporting of Injuries,Diseases and dangerous occurrences regulations of 1995 requires the reporting of work-related accidents, diseases and dangerous occurrences. The Act applies to all work related activities, but not to all work related incidents. The objective of the regulations is to enable the enforcing authorities to identify where and how risks arise and to investigate serious accidents so as to prevent them from occurring in the future and thus providing a safer work environment. The enforcing authorities can then help and advise you on preventive action to reduce injury, ill health and accidental loss,the main points of our own policy that relate to this are:
Task 4Ensuring health and safety is an important responsibility not only for the Managers but all associated with the premises. Evaluate your organisation’s health and safety policy and procedures in line with legislative requirements and propose recommendations on how health and safety should be managed
This list of responsibilities is for the employee to follow, and they must follow this in order to comply with the Health & Safety at Work Act 1974. As an employee
According to the Bureau of Labor, statistics indicate that more than 4.1 million people were hurt or injured on-the-job in 2006 and 5,488 were killed in 2007 (Gomez-Mejia, Balkin, & Cardy, 2010, p. 511). Laws and regulatory requirements are currently in place to standardize and promote workplace safety. Organizations with extensive safety programs have reduced number of accidents, decreased workers’ compensation claims and lawsuits and lesser accident-related expenditures (Gomez-Mejia, et al, 2010, p. 511). This paper discusses the effects of legal, safety and regulatory requirements in
Implement a system to ensure all incidents, accidents, near-misses and hazards that occur on a Macquarie University campus are reported via the University’s online health and safety reporting system
Incident reporting mechanism is an essential component in nursing occupation that facilitates the identification and monitoring of adverse events or incidents that occur during health care service. It is a defined procedures and protocols that should be place and disseminate throughout the organization. The reporting system is used to report occurrence such as falls, safety issues for patients, medication errors, treatment and procedural problems, and malfunctioning equipment. The benefit of incident reporting mechanism is to protect patient from injury or harm. In order to maximize patient safety, adverse events, mistakes and errors, and near misses incidents should be report in a timely and accurate manner. Furthermore, it is also used to make the nurse aware of inadequacies of her own part which make her reflect upon the situation and how this could be learned from, so as to prevent making same mistake again.
As we strive for continuous improvement in our day to day activities we must take a closer look at all incidents and “Near Misses” that occur on our projects and in the workplace. By working to better understand these events, encouraging our work force to discuss these events and sharing our experience companywide we will move one step closer to realizing our goal of “Zero Injury”.