ABSTRACT
This section provides students with both:
Key information for their studies.
Examples of activities that could help them remember specific topics within a health and safety course.
Key NoteHealth and safety topics covered in brief are listed below. These topics have been selected as they are common on most health and safety courses. By reading them here it will either give you the advantage of knowing many of the topics that will come up on your course; or if you have already sat the course/are sitting it, then this section is an excellent opportunity for revision.
Accidents/incidents.
Health hazards.
Economic benefits.
Sources of information.
Roles and responsibilities in health and safety – UK.
Roles and responsibilities in health and safety – International.
Consulting and informing.
Health and safety management system.
Health and safety policy.
Monitoring.
Accidents and ill-health.
Immediate and underlying causes of an accident.
Recording and reporting.
Methods of improving health and safety performance.
Risk assessment.
Health surveillance.
Work equipment.
Vehicles in the workplace – transport and pedestrians.
Electricity.
Fire.
Ergonomic factors – manual handling.
Ergonomic factors – repetitive physical activities/rapid tasks.
Ergonomic factors – display screen equipment.
Hazardous substances.
Routes of entry of hazardous substances into the body.
Welfare and the work environment.
Stress.
Violence.
Noise.
Vibration.
First aid.
