1. Workplace Health, Safety and Welfare
Module 8

2. Employer or building occupier
Responsibility To:
Protect everyone in the workplace
Provide welfare facilities
Establish a health and safety culture
Plan for health and safety

3. The workplace Premises’ structure and design: Fit for purpose
Materials must meet legal requirements
Take into account tasks carried out
Sufficient floor area
Traffic routes clearly laid out and signposted
Separate vehicles and pedestrians

4. The workplace Ventilation: Must be provided in every room
Preferably by opening windows

5. The workplace Temperature: ‘Reasonable’ during working hours
At least 16oC
(13oC for physical effort)
Risk assess if excessive
heat or cold

6. The workplace Lighting – ‘Suitable and sufficient’
Maintain safety and reduce eye strain
Provided by natural source if practical
Emergency lighting

7. The workplace Work stations Designed to be safe and comfortable
Controls within easy reach

8. The workplace Floors must be constructed and maintained in
order to prevent slips, trips and falls
Must have:
No holes
No excessive slopes
There must be arrangements
for snow and ice

9. The workplace Doors Suitably constructed Function safely
Viewing panels
Windows
Constructed and positioned
to prevent falls
Provisions for cleaning

10. The workplace Storage and racking Design and layout Regular checks
Safe working loads
Defect reporting
Clean and tidy storage areas
Access to goods at height
Teamwork when stacking

11. What welfare facilities should be provided in the workplace?
Toilets
Washing facilities
Provision for disabled
Drinking water
Facilities to eat meals
Storage of clothing
Changing facilities
Pregnant and/or nursing mothers.

12. Maintaining safety in the workplace
Safety representatives and worker involvement in the workplace:
Review the control measures
taken to protect employees
Review all facilities provided
Suggest safer alternatives
Hazard spotting and risk assessment
Continuous improvement

13. Safety signs Safety signs Communicate instructions
Kept in good condition
Displayed in a suitable position
Colour and shape identify the meaning
Understandable to non English speaking people

14. Categories of safety signs
RED
Prohibition
YELLOW
Warning
BLUE
Mandatory
GREEN
Safe condition/ information.

15. Prohibition signage

16. Warning signage

17. Mandatory signage

18. Safe condition / safety information signage