(AGENPARL) – gio 22 settembre 2022 This week’s news and updates about health and safety at work []
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Issued: 22 September 2022
This week we’ve information about inspections that are taking place to help protect workers from life-changing lung disease. There is also some advice on first aid at work, where we outline the basics your business will need.
In addition, we have:
– advice on how to control noise in the workplace
– details of our latest job vacancies
– links to some of our most popular downloadable guidance
Our ‘Health and Safety Made Simple’ website outlines the basics for your business, whatever industry you work in.
– a first aid kit
– training workers
– first aid for homeworkers
– appointing first aiders
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HSE is inspecting manufacturing business where materials that contain silica are used.
These include brick and tile manufacturers, foundries and stoneworkers.
Over time, exposure to silica particles can harm a worker’s ability to breathe and cause irreversible, often fatal, lung disease.
Employers have a legal duty to put in place suitable arrangements to manage health and safety and ensure they comply with the Control of Substances Hazardous to Health Regulations 2002 (COSHH).
Inspectors will be checking that dutyholders:
– know the risks associated with breathing in respirable crystalline silica
– have effective controls in place to keep workers safe and protect their respiratory health
View our refreshed silica guidance for manufacturing and foundries to ensure you are protecting your workers’ health:
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Many people are exposed to noise levels at work that may be harmful, leading to permanent and incurable hearing damage.
It includes the Control of Noise at Work Regulations alongside guidance on what they mean. This sets out an employer’s legal obligations to control risks to workers’ health and safety from noise.
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HSE offers a wide variety of publications containing advice and guidance for employers, workers and the general public.
Here is a selection of some of our most popular publications:
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