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The Importance of Health and Safety

The Importance of Health and Safety. By the end of the session you will be able to:. Explain the correct procedure for reporting accidents within the workplace Explain when an accident becomes reportable under RIDDOR Explain why it is important to be report all accidents and incidents.

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The Importance of Health and Safety

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  1. The Importance of Healthand Safety

  2. By the end of the session you will be able to: • Explain the correct procedure for reporting accidents within the workplace • Explain when an accident becomes reportable under RIDDOR • Explain why it is important to be report all accidents and incidents

  3. Working Days Lost in the UK

  4. Fatalities

  5. Accident Categories

  6. Most Dangerous Profession • Working at Sea as a Fisherman or in the Merchant Navy • Fishing has a fatality rate of approx 100 per 100,000 • Merchant seamen have a fatality rate of 50 per 100,00

  7. Bomb Disposal

  8. Oil or Gas Rigger 168 workers died in the Piper Alpha Accident which remains the worlds worst ever offshore industrial accident

  9. Even working in a kitchen can bedangerous Yes that is what remains of a hand

  10. Working with machinery can be very dangerous

  11. There are many unexpected dangers when working as a maintenance engineer This is an injection injury

  12. A lack of knowledge will kill you more often than not!! This person was caught trying to steal copper from a transformer substation

  13. He was not the only one either

  14. Stress, Anxiety and Depression

  15. Dermatitis

  16. Cancer of the Scrotum

  17. Asbestos the silent killer

  18. Mesothelioma (Lung Cancer)

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