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The costs of failure to manage health and safety successfully are high. This manual was prepared by HSE's Accident Prevention Advisory Unit as a practical guide for directors, managers and health and safety professionals intent on improving health and safety performance. The advice given here will be increasingly used by HSE inspectors as a basis for testing the performance of organizations against the general duties of the Health and Safety at Work etc Act 1974.
This publication, 'The Safe Isolation of Plant and Equipment - HSG 253', is a reference tool for duty holders in the onshore and offshore oil and gas industry, chemical manufacturing, and pipelines associated with these industries. It will help duty holders to develop, review and enhance their own isolation standards and procedures. It also has general application to all industries where process isolations are made and to mobile offshore drilling units where relevant. It provides guidance on how to isolate plant and equipment safely, and how to reduce the risk of releasing hazardous substances during intrusive activities such as maintenance and sampling operations. It also includes a methodology for selecting 'baseline' process isolation standards and outlines preventive and risk reduction measures.
Supersedes previous edition (ISBN 9780717664153)
This publication is aimed at managers in all industries. It explains why human factors are important in health and safety and how they need to be assessed and managed in the same way as other risk factors. It gives practical advice on how to develop systems designed to take account of human capabilities and fallibilities.
This book replaces most earlier HSE guidance on liscensed asbestos removal work. It is aimed at businesses holding a alicence to work with asbestos, either repairing or removing asbestos-containing materials (ACMs), supervising such work, holding an ancillary license or providing training on asbestos. Employers who carry out work with asbestos insulation, aasbestos insulating board using their own employees on their premises, who are exempted from the requirement to hold a licence, also need this guidance. The guidance is split into eight chapters, covering different aspects of licensed work with ACM's. It provides an overview of asbestos and its health effects, the law and how to work safely with asbestos.
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Superseded by 2017 edition (ISBN 9780717666638)
Explains the essential tasks for achieving healthy and safe construction sites and helps the reader to identify hazards and control risks. This book also explains how to plan, organise, control, monitor and review health and safety throughout the life of a project. It is suitable for those involved in construction work.