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Additional responsibilities for upper tier COMAH-regulated sites
What you must do to ensure a top tier site meets Control of Major Accident Hazards (COMAH) Regulations requirements including submitting a safety report.
Purchase the safest workplace equipment and machinery
Buying the right equipment for the designated task and your legal duties when purchasing machinery and disposing of old equipment.
Workplace equipment risk assessment
Identify hazards posed by tools and equipment, and assess the likelihood of accidents occurring and use your risk assessment to identify actions to take.
Types of work equipment in safety law
Types of equipment covered by the law and the definition of machinery in sectors such as manufacturing, building, construction, offices and transport.
Use hand-held tools safely
Minimising and managing risks from using hand-held tools, including protecting against hand-arm vibration by assessing the risks and taking appropriate action.
Equipment maintenance and checks for safety
Regularly checking your equipment and carrying out necessary maintenance is a crucial part of minimising workplace risks and legal requirement.
Reduce the risks of using workplace equipment
Using signs, training, guidelines, emergency stop buttons, safety guards and protective equipment to minimise residual risks from tools and machinery.
Stock control administration
An administrator or stock controllers' duties, typical paperwork and auditing or checking stock
How much stock should you keep?
Advantages and disadvantages of keeping either plenty of stock or very little
Work equipment safety - your legal duties
What the law requires you to do to ensure your equipment is safe - from maintenance to assessing risks through inspection and taking appropriate action.
Using RFID for inventory control, stock security and quality management
RFID inventory management provides a highly versatile way to control and track stock
Stock security
Set up a security policy, prevent employee theft and ensure you comply with health and safety requirements
Key health and safety management legal obligations
Staying up to date with your legal responsibilities for health and safety to protect staff, customers and visitors, have liability insurance and have a policy.
Benefits of health and safety management systems
Management systems help control risk, reduce costs and improve your reputation, other benefits include increased morale and possible lower insurance premiums.
Stock control systems - keeping track using computer software
Sales order processing, automatic stock monitoring and how to choose the right stock control system
Event safety: planning for emergencies
Planning for incidents and emergencies if you are an event organiser, including creating an emergency plan, evacuation procedures and handing over to the emergency services.
Types of stock
The four main types of stock - raw materials and components, work in progress, finished goods and consumables
Control the quality of your stock
Stock and batch tracking, checking goods and the British Standards Institute scheme for quality management
Control and review your health and safety management systems
Keeping records and driving continual improvement of health and safety management through setting targets, regular reviews and audits.
What to include in a workplace policy on domestic and sexual abuse
A checklist of what to include in your workplace policy on domestic and sexual abuse and an example policy.