Health and safety
Information on key aspects of health and safety for engineers, technicians and managers.
Colour vision defects
This fact sheet answers some of the common questions asked by people who think they may have some form of colour vision defect, as well as those asked by employers.
Colour Vision Defects
(113 k) Updated March 2007
Health and safety guide
A short factfile explaining health and safety, covering the general health and safety framework in the UK, the cost of accidents, safety culture, occupational health, and risk assessments.
Health and Safety Guide
(580 k) Updated March 2007
Health and safety briefings
Over 50 short briefings designed to demystify health and safety topics, from dealing with asbestos to reducing stress at work. These have been broken down into 4 sections, namely management, specific hazards, controlling risk, and legislation.
Management of health and safety
Behaviour based safety
(188 k) Updated February 2007
Blame free reporting
(89 k) Updated February 2007
Construction Design and Management Regulations (CDM 2007)
(100 k) Updated June 2008
Consultation with employees
(37 k) Updated November 2005
Contractor Management
(92 k) Updated January 2007
Cost of safety
(97 k) Updated April 2008
Do accidents and ill-health cost me money?
(89 k) Updated January 2008
Duties of directors
(96 k) Updated November 2006
Fire risk assessment
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Glossary of safety terminology
(120 k) Updated June 2007
Health and safety management
(38 k) Updated November 2005
Indicators and targets
(93 k) Updated December 2006
Managing contractors
(95 k) Updated January 2007
Office Safety Management
(112 k) Updated February 2008
Organisational change and safety
(86 k) Updated December 2006
Reasonably Practicable
(84 k) Updated December 2006
Risk Assessment - legal position and interpretation
(93 k) Updated November 2004
Risk based inspection
(86 k) Updated January 2007
Safe systems of work
(87 k) Updated November 2007
Safety audits
(91 k) Updated February 2007
Safety culture
(85 k) Updated December 2006
Safety management systems
(83 k) Updated December 2006
Safety policy statement
(90 k) Updated December 2006
Young people at work
(85 k) Updated October 2006
Specific hazards
Asbestos including asbestos surveys
(97 k) Updated January 2007
Consumer protection
(89 k) Updated February 2006
Display screen equipment risk assessment
(103 k) Updated April 2006
Display screen equipment - self assessment
(89 k) Updated March 2006
Driving safely
(145 k) Updated January 2007
Electricity in the workplace
(27 k) Updated June 2003
Electricity in the workplace - FAQs
(96 k) Updated December 2006
Equipment and protective systems for use in potentially explosive atmospheres
(87 k) Updated January 2007
Homeworking and teleworking
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Manual handling
(94 k) Updated February 2006
Personal protective equipment
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Polychlorinated Biphenyls PCBs
(35 k) Updated May 2005
Portable appliance testing PAT Testing
(37 k) Updated September 2005
Rosin Fluxes - fumes and asthma
(84 k) Updated March 2006
Stress at work
(96 k) Updated January 2008
Visitor safety
(83 k) Updated October 2006
Working at height
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Controlling risk
Determining the acceptability of risk
(95 k) Updated December 2006
Hazard analysis HAZAN
(36 k) Updated September 2004
Hazard and operability studies HAZOP
(111 k) Updated January 2007
Permit to work systems
(85 k) Updated November 2007
Quantified Risk Assessment Techniques part 1 - failure modes and effects analysis - FEMA
(115 k) Updated December 2006
Quantified Risk Assessment Techniques part 2 - event tree analysis - ETA
(130 k) Updated December 2006
Quantified Risk Assessment Techniques part 3 - fault tree analysis - FTA
(133 k) Updated December 2006
Risk Assessment - practical application in the workplace
(90 k) Updated January 2007
Health and safety legislation
CDM regulations
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Confined spaces regulations 1997
(95 k) Updated February 2008
Control of major accident hazards regulations 1999
(36 k) Updated March 2005
Control of substances hazardous to health COSHH
(97 k) Updated January 2007
Current HSW regulations
(78 k) Updated February 2006
Experience with the supply of machinery safety regulations 1992
(99 k) Updated November 2005
Legal responsibilities and penalties set out in Health and Safety at Work Act 1974
(97 k) Updated December 2006
Provision and use of work equipment
(93 k) Updated September 2007
RIDDOR
(88 k) Updated January 2008
Safety regulations likely to affect IET members
(94 k) Updated September 2007
Lessons to be learnt from health and safety law
Examples of health and safety case law showing how to avoid litigation in the field of health and safety.
Failure to provide safety equipment
(89 k) Updated July 2008
Risk assessment of display screen equipment
(88 k) Updated July 2008
Control of substances hazardous to health COSHH
(88 k) Updated July 2008
Corporate responsibility for non employees
(87 k) Updated July 2008
Interpretation of risk
(84 k) Updated July 2008
Delegation of responsibility
(89 k) Updated July 2008
Stress in the workplace
(90 k) Updated July 2008
Stress in the workplace - check list
(97 k) Updated July 2008
Advice on interconnecting mains-powered equipment
A short factfile giving advice on interconnecting mains-powered equipment in the home and avoiding electrical shocks.
Advice on interconnecting mains powered equipment
(80 k) Updated December 2007
Safety, Health and Environmental Risk
The teaching of safety, health and environmental risk (SHE) issues to undergraduates studying engineering courses is an important part of the education of future engineers, and is generally thought to be an area insufficiently covered in current courses. The Inter-Institutional Group on Health and Safety has produced this document, which may be used by lecturers and course designers, as a guide to providing undergraduates with a basic understanding of SHE issues relevant to their specific course of professional study.
Incorporating Safety, Health and Environmental Risk issues in Undergraduate Engineering Courses
(108 k) Updated July 2008
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