Introductory Safety and Health Protection (SHP) Training Curriculum

1. Introductory Safety and Health Protection (SHP) Training Curriculum Obligatory for all students and employees of the CVUT Complete text of the introductory SHP training is available at: http://www.fbmi.cvut.cz All laws and public notices (system ASPI) at: http://www.cvut.cz

2. Main Motto • To act so that I would not endanger other people or myself and I would not causedamage to property and the environment. • Everyone is responsible for caused damage according to the extent of breach of dutie and according to the present laws.

3. Introduction Observing the regulations governing the SHPW is considered one of the basic duties of all employees, students and all other persons who enter the premises with the prior consent of the employerand who have already been trained.

4. Legal Basis for the SHPW • Constitution of the Czech Republic • Bill of Rights and Liberties • Instruction of the European Community Council - 89/331/EEC, • Civil Code, • Labour Code (Chapter 5), • Decrees in the Collection of Laws, • Czech standards.

5. Labour Code – Duties of the Employee • Obligatory SHPW training at the beginning of the employment, • to observe work discipline, work procedures, SHP regulations, • to use personal protective working tools and other tools, • not to use alcoholic drinks and other addictive drugs (obligation to undergo medical tests), • to notify the supervisors of the shortcomings and defects.

6. Labour Code – Basic Rights of the Employee • Right to be provided with SHPW, information about risks and measures taken to ensure SHPW. • Possibility to refuse to perform work which endangers his/her health and life, or health and life of other people. • Participate in creation of healthy and safe working environment.

7. Labour Code – Duties of the Employer • Work of the employee is in accordance with his/her health condition and abilities. • To provide SHPW training, test knowledge, require and control the observance of the SHPW regulations. • To provide the employees with the personal protective working tools,first aid. • To ensure the observance of the smoking ban (nonsmoking working places).

8. Decree No. 48/82(SW and technical equipment) • states basic requirements for provision of safety of work and technical equipment (primary regulation), • requirements for documentation, operation, safety marking, controls etc., • requirements for floors, gates, communications, • all-glass wings of doors in frames (visibly marked), • requirements for safety of work are defined within the frame of several works and operations (e.g. pressure, equipment).

9. Decree No. 50/78(SW with electric equipment) • States requirements for professional competence in electrotechnics (education, practice, activity), • allowed activities, imminent danger, forbidden activities, duties, • only accredited courses, • for non-professionals – CNS 34 3108 Safety regulation for manipulation with electric equipment by people without professional qualification in electrotechnics (also recommendation of the CES).

10. Notice No. 110/75 and No. 274/90(work injuries) • states details about work injuries, their recording, registration and compensation, • connection with the performance of the workload is neccessary for correct clasification, • connection with the performance of the workload is NOT: way to the workplace and back, meals, medical attendance or treatment incl. way there and back, unless it is performed in the employer‘s premises, or at employer‘s bidding, • very important recording and registration of the injury.

11. Working condition of women and juveniles (LC) • Work forbidden to all women– Lifting and transporting the loads (over 15 kg in manual lifting and carrying, over 50 kg in transporting the load on a wheel-barrow and box cart) • Juveniles - only such types of work which are adequate to their physical and mental degree of development and do not interfere with the development of their physical and mental abilities. (NO night shifts and overtime work).

12. Security of work with computers • BHP No. 11/93 p. 485, published by ComputerPress • Risks fr common users regarding Safety and Health Protection and occupational disease occurrence: a) increasing eye-strain - brightness – blinking, b) electromagnetic radiation of typical monitors, c) strain to the neck-spine (wrong sitting), • there are ergonomic recommendations.

13. Important phone numbers • Universal emergency call 112, • Ambulance 155, • Fire department 150, • Police of the CR 158, • Emergency – gas 159.

14. Possible causes of injuries at the workplace • opening windows, • elevator, • opening the lab doors outwards, • fingers in door hinges, • open windows in the halls and labs, • rocking chairs, • carrying machines out of and into the cabinets, • moving in general, • unsuitable position of baggage, • get caught with rings, chains at handles, or other things, • behaviour at excursions, or during moving to another workplace, • physical education.

15. Insurance • Insurance of the employer, • Insurance covering caused damage in the civil life (about 200,- per year, very useful, and sometimes neccessary – teachers).

16. First aid - kits • Has to be at each workplace, • the organization has to provide maintanance and restocking, • every worker has to have access to a kit during the working hours, • the content is exactly prescribed.

17. First aid – electric shock • To set the afflicted person from the range of the electric current in a safe and suitable way, • to find out if the afflicted person is conscious, breathing, with pulse, to treat wounds, • in case the afflicted person is not breathing, then artificial respiration, • if there is no palpable pulse, then indirect heart massage (BE CAREFUL about inner injuries), • possible combination of both, call a doctor, resuscitation after the doctor arrives.

18. First aid - burns • Keep absolute cleanness, do not touch the wound, • do not remove the rest of clothes or other objects from the wound, • less serious (1. a 2. stage) burns of minor extent may be cooledby means of clean water, (waterpipe) • cover the burns with a sterile operating mask or ironed piece of cloth (bed sheet etc.), • anti-shock measures ( silence, warmth, liquids, tranquilization, transport )

19. First aid - bleeding • immediately push push the bleeding vein directly in the wound or at a pressure point, • pressure bandage or rubber bandage - from time to time (10-15 minutes) release the pressure x lack of blood circulation), • immobilize the afflicted area as much as possible, • anti-shock measures (silence, warmth, liquids, tranquilization, transport), • check the wound and the state of the injured person continually.