Managing Health & Safety in a Small Business

Jacqueline Jeynes

• Publisher: Business Expert Press
• Year: 2022
• Print ISBN: 9781637421956
• eBook ISBN: 9781637422120
• Topic: Business
• Subtopic: Industrial Management
• Index: Business

Managing Health and Safety in a Small Business is an up-to-date guide, reflecting current concerns about how to identify and manage health and safety risks in a small business, with a broad focus on practical guidance wherever your business is based globally.

It covers all the basic principles of assessing risks without quoting specific regulations that are likely to change depending on your location. With additional checklists and suggestions throughout, it can be used by individual business owners, consultants or business advisors working with them, or as a basic introduction to the key elements of risk assessment.

APPENDIX 1

Checklist 1 Describe Your Business

Follow the Questions Through and Start to Collate Any Documents for Your Evidence File

1. Name of the business

2. Legal structure (include a copy of any legal documents)

3. Are there Shareholders? If so, how many?

4. What type of industry sector is your main one? Try to be as specific as possible, rather than just “service” or “engineering”.

5. What do you actually make, or provide as a service? List the full range of products or services and include any promotional or guidance literature you have.

6. How long has the business been established?

7. How is the business organised? Include a simple Flow Chart to show how work tasks or projects move through the system. It is useful to think about the following questions:

• is work activity based on just one site or several different locations?

• Are some staff working from home for some or all of the time?

• is work carried out on other people’s premises?

• how many buildings make up the business at each site?

• do staff have to travel between buildings/ sites/ clients for work purposes? If so, how is this organised?

• do products have to be transferred between sites or buildings?

8. Do customers come onto your site/premises?

If so, is it free or controlled access during business hours? Include any points you think are relevant to health and safety risks in your business. Include a copy of the Visitor’s Book or other records if you have them

9. What have been the most significant changes in the way the business is organised since it started?

10. How many people work for you in total, either as employees or on another basis?

full time permanent	part time permanent
full time temporary	part time temporary
on specified short term contract	some form of ‘work experience’
free-lance/ self-employed	voluntary other (please specify)

11. What are the main lines of authority and responsibility between people in the business? Include an Organisation Chart if you have one.

APPENDIX 2

Checklist 2 Site Plan A Describe the site

	Noted (tick)	Query? (tick)	Action needed	Not applicable
Draw in the External boundary of your main site
Where are the usual access routes for vehicles visiting the site (roads/highways, tracks)
Are there access routes for pedestrians set out clearly (footpaths/sidewalks)
Show the position of ext...

Table of contents

• Cover
• Half-Title Page
• Title Page
• Copyright
• Description
• Contents
• Disclaimer
• Foreword
• Acknowledgments
• Section A  The Context for Your Business
• Section B  Identifying and Controlling Safety Risks
• Section C  Identifying and Controlling Health Risks
• Section D  Identifying and Controlling Fire Risks
• Section E  Effective Management of Fire, Health, and Safety Risks in the Business
• Section F  Case Studies
• Section G  Further Information and Reference Sources
• Appendix 1: Checklist 1 Describe Your Business
• Appendix 2: Checklist 2 Site Plan A Describe the Site
• Appendix 3: Checklist 3 Site Plan B Show the External Features
• Appendix 4: Checklist 4 Site Plan C Show the Internal Features
• Appendix 5: Checklist 5 How Orders Move Through the Business
• Appendix 6: Checklist 6 Show Activities in Each Area
• Appendix 7: Checklist 7 Type of Hazard and Where it is on Site
• Appendix 8: Checklist 8 Assessing the Safety Risks
• Appendix 9: Checklist 9 Controls in Place
• Appendix 10: Checklist 10 Health Hazards on Site
• Appendix 11: Checklist 11 Assessing the Health Risks
• Appendix 12: Checklist 12 Controls in Place
• Appendix 13: Checklist 13 Fire Hazards on Site
• Appendix 14: Checklist 14 Assessing the Fire Risks
• Appendix 15: Checklist 15 Fire Controls in Place
• Appendix 16: Checklist 16 Managing the Risks
• About the Author
• Index