Practical Health and Safety Management for Small Businesses

ISBN-13: 9780750646802 / Angielski / Miękka / 2000 / 192 str.

Jacqueline Jeynes

Opis

A straightforward and practical approach to identifying, organizing and managing health and safety in business. Looking at the needs of small businesses, it provides a step-by-step guide to health and safety management in a small business. Helping to identify all the potential hazards, offering advice on how best to look after employees and how to manage health and safety in your business, it offers to help the reader establish a system that can be maintained, added to and kept up to date as needs and the regulations change. There are examples and industry case studies.

Recenzje

'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

Spis treści

Where to start? Context: What structure is your business? The work premises: Layout; Examples of floor plans for small and large premises; different outside areas; washing facilities; storage; customer reception. Processes: Movement of goods through business; Examples of manufacturing, retail, office and service industries. Safety and Security: Hazards, how to spot them; Risks, examples of Risk Assessment evaluations; Controls. Health and Environment: Hazards; Risks; Controls. Fire, Hazards; Risks; Controls. Managing Health and safety; Your Health and safety policy. Industry case studies to identify specific aspects to look at in more detail: offices, accountants, solicitors, butchers, hairdressers, beauticians, pubs, hotels, restaurants, food outlets, retail, light engineering, agriculture, horticulture, forestry, florist, carpenter and joiner, roofing, window cleaning, petrol stations, car wash facilities, crafts, pottery, textiles, construction, vehicle repairs, services, vets, animal establishments, service providers in shared premises or on others' premises. Glossary of terms. Other sources of information. Useful publications.

O autorze

Jacqueline Jeynes