Transcript management of health and safety at work regulations 1999

MANAGEMENT OF HEALTH
AND SAFETY AT WORK
REGULATIONS 1999
RISK ASSESSMENT’S
FOR CHILDREN &
YOUNG PERSONS
Brian Hagyard CMIOSH
What is a young person or
Child?
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Regulation 1 _Citation, commencement and
interpretation.
Child:
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A person who is not over compulsory school age,
construed in accordance with section 8 of the
Education Act 1996
Young Person:
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Any person who has not attained the age of 18
So under the management regulations
a person can be a child and a young
person.
Regulation 3 (4)
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An employer shall not employ a young person
unless he has, in relation to risks to health and
safety of young persons, made or reviewed an
assessment:
Regulation 5
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An employer shall take particular account of:
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The inexperience, lack of awareness of risks and
immaturity of young persons;
The fitting-out and layout of the workplace and
workstation;
The nature, degree and duration of exposure to
physical, biological and chemical agents.
Regulation 5 - continued
d) The form, range, and use of work equipment
and the way in which it is handled;
e) The organisation of processes and activities
f) The extent of the health and safety training
provided or to be provided to young person
g) Risks from agents, processes and work listed in
the Annex to Council Directive 94/33/EC on the
protection of young people at work.
People Under 18 Years of age are not
allowed by law to use the meat slicing
machines in a butchers shop!
Offices, Shops & Railway Premises Act 1963 –
Prescribed Dangerous Machines.
Dangerous Machines (Training of Young Persons)
Order 1954.
Revoked by Health and Safety (Young Persons)
Regulations 1997 which were repealed by
Management Regs 1999.
Prohibition of Work for young
people by Directive 94/33/EC
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Work which is beyond his physical or
psychological capacity;
Involving harmful exposure to agents which
are toxic or carcinogenic
Involving harmful exposure to radiation
Involving risk of accidents which it may
reasonably be assumed cannot be recognised
or avoided by young persons owing to their
insufficient attention to safety etc
Directive 94/33/EC continued.
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Work in which there is a risk to health from:
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Extreme cold or heat
Noise; or
Vibration.
Forms Reg 19 Management Regs.
But – its ok if
Necessary for training, are supervised by competent
person and risk is lowest reasonably practicable
Directive 94/33/EC continued
Specific Restrictions
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Working with Biological Agents in Groups 3
and 4
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(leprosy – Lassa fever)
Substances classed as harmful (Xn) and some
risk phrases (e.g. R42 may cause sensitization
by inhalation)
Working with Asbestos
Work with fierce or poisonous animals
Risk Assessment.
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There is no need for you to carry out a new risk
assessment each time you employ a young person,
as long as your current risk assessment takes
account of the characteristics of young people and
activities which present significant risks to their
health and safety.
You may wish to consider developing generic risk
assessments for young people. These could be useful
when they are likely to be doing temporary or
transient work, and when the risk assessments could
be modified to deal with particular work situations
and any unacceptable risks.
What Should My Assessment
Look Like?
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5 Steps To
Risk
Assessment
Hotel Hagyard
Step 1
What are the Hazards
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Using a Gravity Meat slicer
Exposure to Rotating blade
Step 2
Who Might Be harmed and how
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Person using machine. (staff) could
suffer serious cuts including potential
amputation of fingertip .
Step 3
What are you already doing
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OVER 18.
Only trained staff will be aloud to use. Blade guard
must be in place at all times during use. See training
procedures.
UNDER 18.
Will only be aloud to use under direct supervision for
2 months to ensure are competent – period to be
extended if problems have been encountered
What further action is
required
Produce a list of authorised users for
staff notice board
Step 1
What are the Hazards
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Blade has to be removed for cleaning
exposing very sharp cutting surface.
Step 2
Who Might Be harmed and how
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Person cleaning machine. (staff) could
suffer serious cuts including potential
amputation of fingers
Step 3
What are you already doing
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OVER 18.
Only trained staff will be aloud to clean,
blade carrier must be used at all times
for this operation.
UNDER 18.
No person under 18 will be allowed to
clean this machine.
What further action is
required
Produce a list of authorised users for staff
notice board.
Step 1
What are the Hazards
General cleaning
“Clean it” is a Know skin irritant can cause
dermatitis is prolonged exposure (see
COSHH assessment)
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Step 2
Who Might Be harmed and how
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Persons using cleaning material i.e.
staff.
Skin irritation and dermatitis if exposed
to product.
Step 3
What are you already doing
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OVER 18.
All staff will be provided with protective gloves
and instructed to open windows while using
clean it. Training records kept. Health
monitoring undertaken.
UNDER 18.
Under 18’s will undertake cleaning under
direct supervision of another housekeeper for
two weeks. Training records kept.
Step 1
What are the Hazards
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Clearing external gully drains
“Un- Blok-It” is a caustic product which
can cause sever skin damage. See
COSHH assessment
Step 2
Who Might Be harmed and how
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Staff using cleaning fluid.
Chemical Skin Burns
Step 3
What are you already doing
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OVER 18.
Staff are trained in safe use, provided with
long rubber gauntlets and face shield.
UNDER 18.
No one under 18 is allowed to us. It is kept in
the dangerous chemical cupboard only head
chef has access
Hotel Nursery
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Portable electrical appliances
Step 1
What are the Hazards
Electrocution/electric shock.
Step 2
Who Might Be harmed and how .
Staff and Children – if cable damaged
or equipment faulty in some way
Step 3
What are you already doing
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A suitable risk assessment for portable
appliances is unlikely to need many
alterations see assessment produced at
previous risk assessment event
UNDER 18
An initial assessment will be made on all
under 18’s to ensure they appreciate risk
associated with electricity at induction.
Training records kept.
Visits Off Site
Step 1
What are the Hazards
All outside visits are separately assessed
for hazards
Step 2
Who Might Be harmed and how.
Staff/Children may be injured in
accordance with the risk assessment.
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Step 3
What are you already doing
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All outside visits are separately
assessed for hazards
UNDER 18.
No one under 18 will be aloud to lead
such a visit; a senior member of staff
must supervise them at all times.