Occupational Health and Safety Questions 1. (15 marks) The TLV for carbon monoxide is 35ppm. Define the terms TLV and ppm and calculate them for the following example: Answer: TVL = Term for airborne concentration of a substance‚ below which all workers are believed to be protected while exposed to it day after day for 8-hour periods. PPM = Concentration by volume of one part of a gas‚ or by weight of a liquid or solid‚ per million parts of air or liquid. A mechanic in
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What is the Health and Safety at Work Act 1974? The Health and Safety at Work Act 1974 sets out the general day to day activities within the Workplace‚ that employers or employees may face when they are working. It outlines the possible hazards and risks within the workplace‚ and ways to minimise that risk or prevent the incident from recurring. This health and safety law has been reviewed in 1994 and again in 1999 and says that good management and common sense is what is needed to be able to
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HEALTH and SAFETY: Professional Discussion and Questions and Answers Q 1: Who do you think are at risk within your work environment? A: The staff‚ individuals who live in the bungalow‚ visitors and other contracted people/ workers who come to work from outside. Q: 2: what measures are there/ or have you in place for the individuals before working with them? A: All the individuals are assessed and have risk assessments written up for them for all their daily living activities
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Full Length Research Paper Food safety regulations: reducing the risk of foodborne diseases in rural communities of Abia state‚ Nigeria G.E. Ifenkwe Department of Rural Sociology and Extension‚ Michael Okpara University of Agriculture‚ Umudike‚ Abia State‚ Nigeria. E-mail:godwinifenkwe@yahoo.com Abstract Most kitchens‚ grocery stores and catering houses‚ especially those in rural communities‚ will fail abysmally if subjected to hygiene and food safety tests. This is in terms of meals/drinks
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include the atomic number‚ so it is rarely used. Carbon-14‚ therefore‚ would be written as 14C or C-l4. Unit of Radiation Energy The electron volt (eV) is an extremely small unit and is equal to only 1.6 X 10-12 ergs. It is only used in radiation safety to express radiation energy. The electron volt is such a small unit that it is usually written as mega- or kilo- electron volts which is a million electron volts (MeV) or a thousand electron volts (keV)‚ respectively. Radioactivity The atoms
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Road Safety. Essay On January 19th‚ 2010 in Melbourne. 5 teenagers died after driving home after a party‚ losing control and driving into a tree.Road safety is needed to live everyday life. To know the rules are important to ensure road safety. Being safe on our roads is vital because it affects everyone from cyclists to children walking to school. Every person should get involved in road safety because killing a child is not worth an appointment that you may miss. Every year more and more people
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bicycle was a risk sport‚ ignoring its function like means of transport‚ means of healthful leisure and tool for cyclotouring. This Regulation‚ done by the Spanish government‚ but in fact written by the technicians of the Spanish National Traffic Safety Committee‚ had to develop the Road Security Law‚ dictated by the Parliament‚ which already placed the helmet like an obligatory element. But the technicians did not know very clearly how to approach the development of that law that had been made with
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Your project must be completed and returned by: Course code: CP003092 Return date: 09th June 2014 NEBOSH National & International General Certificate in Occupational Health and Safety UNIT GC3: HEALTH AND SAFETY PRACTICAL APPLICATION GC3 – The Health and Safety Practical Application Candidate and course provider declarations: For completion by the candidate: I declare that the work submitted for this practical application assessment ie. the
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entered with a zero score to nebosh along with a report of malpractice. Please follow this guidance and the nebosh guidance provided. INTERNATIONAL GENERAL CERTIFICATE (2011 specification) Assessor’s marking sheet IGC3 – THE HEALTH AND SAFETY PRACTICAL APPLICATION Date of practical application Course provider number 365 Student number Name of assessor. Gordon Fuller. Course provider name RCES (UK) LTD Student name Criteria Maximum marks available 1 Completion
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Rayana Holmes Safety Reflection Paper What is safety? Can any one definition truly define what safety is and how do we know when we are safe? Safety is an ongoing concern in the world. No one should ever have to go somewhere and feel unsafe. As much as we all like to think we are safe‚ they are many times when we are in our comfort zones but we may not necessarily be safe. When you are in places where there are large amounts of people you don’t always think of the dangers that could lurk around
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