The Health and Safety Handbook
Endorsed By: The Institute of Directors
Comprehensive guide to employer's health and safety duties. Practical information on the law, health and safety management and the working environment. CD-Rom with templates included.
Health and safety at work is a diverse area of study and a difficult subject for many employers. However, employers need to get to grips with the subject due to their extensive criminal and civil liabilities under health and safety law. This book is an essential guide for medium sized enterprises who do not have access to a health and safety professionals but for whom compliance with health and safety law is still essential. The book takes the reader through all the key issues relating to health and safety and provides up-to-date guidance on employers' statutory duties and how best to achieve compliance with the law. Highly practical, The Health and Safety Handbook also provides a CD ROM with policy documents, procedures, forms and all relevant templates for dealing with key health and safety issues.
This book covers the main areas of law, health and safety management, the working environment, occupational health and human factors together with specific areas of safety such as that relating to engineering, electrical and construction safety. It is essential reading for employers, senior and line managers and for students on management courses in which health and safety is included.
REVIEWS :“This volume stands out from the plethora of books that try to
distil the basics of workplace health and safety into one volume…Stranks
has produced a guide that will help anyone with line management
responsibilities who needs to ‘upskill’ in health and safety.”
Health&Safety@Work
“The author draws on a large pool of personal practical knowledge
and experience…Complemented by the CD with template, checklists and
report forms, makes this handbook motivating for even the laziest
reader.”
IET Engineering Management
“The ‘Key Points’ section at the end of each chapter is a
manager’s boon: I founf myself picking up on selected items to set out
before my managers’ meetings…This really worked for me…Essential for the
practicing Administrative Manager.”
Manager (British Journal of Administrative Management)
“Complemented by a CD with checklists, templates and report forms.”
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Hardback, 240 Pages, Dimensions 246 x 189 MM Language English.
Principle areas of health and safety law;
Health and Safety Management;
The Working Environment;
Engineering Safety;
Fire Prevention and Protection;
Electrical Safety;
Safety in Construction Operations;
Occupational Health;
Personal Protective Equipment;
Human Factors;
Hazardous substances;
Jeremy Stranks is a Fellow of both the CIEH and IOSH and a Chartered Safety and Health Practitioner. He is a freelance trainer, consultant and expert witness in addition to being the author of many books on health and safety at work.