2. OCR Award and Certificate in Employability Skills

3. Unit 6: Understanding Health and Safety in the Workplace

4. Health and safety law in the workplace
This unit is about:
Health and safety law in the workplace
Working safely
Emergency!
Extra help

5. Health and safety law in the workplace
Wherever you work, you will be bound by many health and safety laws, such as:
Health and Safety at Work Act 1974

6. Health and safety law in the workplace
Wherever you work, you will be bound by many health and safety laws, such as:
Manual handling regulations

7. Health and safety law in the workplace
Wherever you work, you will be bound by many health and safety laws, such as:
Food hygiene regulations

8. Health and safety law in the workplace
Wherever you work, you will be bound by many health and safety laws, such as:
COSHH regulations
…and any other laws relevant to your workplace.

9. Working safely You may have seen some of these UK safety signs:
The different colours and shapes are important.
Do you know what the different colours and shapes mean?

10. Working safely You may have seen some of these UK safety signs:
The different colours and shapes are important.
Red and white crossed through circle:
Prohibition signs

11. Working safely You may have seen some of these UK safety signs:
The different colours and shapes are important.
Blue and white circle:
Mandatory action signs

12. Working safely You may have seen some of these UK safety signs:
The different colours and shapes are important.
Yellow triangle: Hazard signs

13. Working safely You may have seen some of these UK safety signs:
The different colours and shapes are important.
Red and white rectangle or square: Fire equipment signs

14. Working safely You may have seen some of these UK safety signs:
The different colours and shapes are important.
Green and white rectangle or square: Safety equipment signs

15. Emergency!
In an emergency, such as a fire, important actions must be carried out:
In what order should you do these things?
Follow your company’s evacuation procedure
Tell a colleague or manager
Activate the alarm button

16. Extra help Wherever you work, you can get more help about
Health and Safety from:
Your supervisor or line manager
Your human resources team

17. Extra help
Externally there are many organisations that offer more help, such as:
Health and Safety Executive (HSE)
Environmental Health Officer
Trade Union

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