Health and Safety Legislation
Health and Safety Legislation
1. Reporting of Injuries, Diseases and Dangerous Occurrences (RIDDOR) 1995
RIDDOR came into force on the 1st of April 1996 and requires you to report some work-related accidents, disease and dangerous occurrences to the Health and Safety Executive.
Major injuries include:
* Fracture / break other than to fingers, thumbs or toes * Amputation * Dislocation of the shoulder, hip, knee or spine * Loss of sight
Dangerous occurrences include:
* Collapse, overturning or failure of load-bearing parts of lifts and lifting equipment * Explosion, collapse or bursting of any closed vessel or associated pipework * Electrical short circuit or overload causing fire or explosion
Diseases include:
* Certain poisonings * Some skin diseases such as occupational dermatitis, skin cancer etc * Lung diseases including farmers lung, asthma etc * Meningitis
2. Food Hygiene 2006
From the 1st of January 2006 new EU food hygiene legislation has been applied throughout the UK. This new legislation has modernised, consolidated and simplified the previous EU food hygiene legislation. The regulations aim to set out basic hygiene principles, which are generally not new, but their emphasis is different from previous regulations. They focus more strongly on how to identify and control food safety risks at each stage of the process of preparing and selling food. Rather than simply following a list of rules, the regulations let you assess the risk to food safety and then apply controls relevant to your own situation.
Some of the key aspects are:
* Make sure food is supplied or sold in a hygienic way * Identify food safety hazards * Know which steps in your activities are critical for food safety * Ensure safety controls are in place, maintained and reviewed * All staff handling food must have a basic food hygiene certificate * The person in charge is responsible * It
1. Reporting of Injuries, Diseases and Dangerous Occurrences (RIDDOR) 1995
RIDDOR came into force on the 1st of April 1996 and requires you to report some work-related accidents, disease and dangerous occurrences to the Health and Safety Executive.
Major injuries include:
* Fracture / break other than to fingers, thumbs or toes * Amputation * Dislocation of the shoulder, hip, knee or spine * Loss of sight
Dangerous occurrences include:
* Collapse, overturning or failure of load-bearing parts of lifts and lifting equipment * Explosion, collapse or bursting of any closed vessel or associated pipework * Electrical short circuit or overload causing fire or explosion
Diseases include:
* Certain poisonings * Some skin diseases such as occupational dermatitis, skin cancer etc * Lung diseases including farmers lung, asthma etc * Meningitis
2. Food Hygiene 2006
From the 1st of January 2006 new EU food hygiene legislation has been applied throughout the UK. This new legislation has modernised, consolidated and simplified the previous EU food hygiene legislation. The regulations aim to set out basic hygiene principles, which are generally not new, but their emphasis is different from previous regulations. They focus more strongly on how to identify and control food safety risks at each stage of the process of preparing and selling food. Rather than simply following a list of rules, the regulations let you assess the risk to food safety and then apply controls relevant to your own situation.
Some of the key aspects are:
* Make sure food is supplied or sold in a hygienic way * Identify food safety hazards * Know which steps in your activities are critical for food safety * Ensure safety controls are in place, maintained and reviewed * All staff handling food must have a basic food hygiene certificate * The person in charge is responsible * It