Table of Contents

1. Tutorial Video
2. Reading Materials
• Laser Learning reading text ‘Health and safety in the workplace’
• Find and read your organisations health and safety policies and procedures.
• ‘External environment: Business and legislation’ webpage on the Tutor 2u website
• ‘Changes to UK copyright law and how they could affect you’ webpage on the Chartered Institute of Library and Information Professionals
• ‘What is employers liability insurance, and is my business legally required to have cover?’ webpage on the Byte Start website
• There are a number of useful resources by the Health and Safety Executive (HSE). Click on the icons to the left of the below to read relevant health and safety information.
• ‘Reporting accidents and incidents at work’
• ‘Employer's responsibilities’
• ‘Your health, your safety: A brief guide for workers’
• ‘Work related stress’
• ‘Electrical safety at work’
3. Presentation
• Click to launch this lesson’s first presentation on ‘Managing health and safety’.
• Click to launch this lesson’s second presentation on ‘Assess, manage, and monitor risk’.
• Click to launch this lesson’s third presentation on ‘Employer and employee responsibilities’.
4. Good Practice Example
5. Good Practice Example
6. Good Practice Example
7. Interactive Quiz
8. Evidence Opportunities
9. Extended Learning
• Conduct your own research into the following Acts and regulations related to health and safety: Freedom of information Act 2000 Food Safety Act 1990 Display Screen Equipment Computer misuse act 1990 Manual Handing Operations Regulations 1992 The Electricity at Work Regulations 1989 Copyright, Designs and Patent Act 1988 Fire safety risk assessment (UK Government) Management of H & S at work regulations 1999 Control of substances hazardous to health (COSHH)1994
• Click to launch the presentation: ‘Manage health and safety in own area of responsibility’.
10. Extended Learning
• Watch ‘Health and Safety Video Statistics UK (HSE)’ produced by EssentialSkillz Health and Safety.
• Watch ‘How to write a Risk Assessment’ by Simon Bennett.
11. Think And Challenge
• Consider your current health and safety arrangements at your organisation and ask yourself:
  1. What are your organisational procedures for the health and safety induction of new staff?
  2. How robust are the health and safety monitoring procedures in your workplace?
  3. How often is everyone informed of changes to legislation/regulation relating to health and safety?
  4. What improvements could you implement?
  In regards to your organisational risk assessments:
  5. When were they last updated?
  6. What evidence is there that the entire workforce has been made aware of the policies and reporting procedures?
  Evaluate the effectiveness of the systems in place:
  7. How can you make them more effective?
  8. It is rare that there is just one way to respond to a scenario or situation, so do not consider that the responses you have to the above scenario will be judged as right or wrong. Share your scenario with a work colleague or friend and ask them to tell you whether they think you have responded appropriately. Ask them to challenge your response if necessary. You do not need to submit this task for assessment unless asked to do so by your assessor.