ABSTRACT
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 guide for all those involved in running smaller business units, as well as those offering support, advice or guidance to SMEs.
The author, Jacqueline Jeynes, has run her own small business for 13 years and has represented the concerns of UK small firms internationally for seven years, through the Federation of Small Businesses' Policy unit. She has appeared in 10 BBC TV programmes on health and safety in small firms and is currently a UK member of the Advisory Committee to the European Commission on Safety, Health and Hygiene.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part |42 pages
Context
chapter |5 pages
Introduction
chapter |3 pages
Your business
chapter |22 pages
The premises
chapter |10 pages
Processes and movement of goods through the business
part |25 pages
Controlling Safety Risks
chapter |9 pages
Safety and security hazards
chapter |5 pages
Assessing the safety risks
chapter |9 pages
Controls in place to reduce risks
part |22 pages
Controlling Health Risks
chapter |9 pages
Health hazards
chapter |3 pages
Assessing the health risks
chapter |8 pages
Health controls in place to reduce risks
part |23 pages
Controlling Fire Risks
chapter |10 pages
Fire hazards
chapter |5 pages
Assessing fire risks
chapter |7 pages
Fire controls in place to reduce risks
part |17 pages
Effective Management of Fire, Health and Safety Risks in the Business
part |45 pages
Industry-specific Hazards and Risks