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Explain why health and safety legislation might be enforced to different standards in different countries. |
Health and safety legislation might be enforced to different standards in different countries for a variety of reasons. 1. There may be differences in the health and safety legislation itself, which forms the basis against which enforcement action is taken. For example, the fundamental difference between prescriptive law and goal-setting law. 2. Even with a similar style of legislation, enforcement may vary due to factors within the enforcing authority and its staff. 3. The authority may not have robust systems in place to adequately collect and analyse the workplace accidents, incidents and illhealth that do occur, which would identify accident ‘hot-spots’ which can be targeted by the enforcement programme. 4. Alternatively, the authority may not be adequately monitoring the enforcement actions that take place to ensure they are being made in a consistent manner. 4. Additionally, there may be differences in the ability and knowledge of the enforcing staff, especially where they have to work in widely different industrial settings. 5.Finally, the legal system may specify different levels of penalty for a particular health and safety offence, and this might be influenced by cultural issues, i.e. how a particular offence is viewed in society generally. |
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Outline the key elements of an effective health and safety management system. |
1. A clear organizational health and safety policy which sets out the arrangements for managing health and safety. 2. The organization of staff for managing healthy and safety in terms of appropriate expertise / competence and communication. 3. The planning of specific mechanisms for health and safety, such as the risk assessment process and the incident reporting system, to ensure compliance with legislation and other standards. 4. The implementation of the planned systems, including the provision of the necessary resources. Checking (or measuring / monitoring) that the systems implemented are working to the required standard. 5. An audit / review by management of the effectiveness of their health and safety management system. 6. The importance of clear, measurable (SMART) objectives in the planning and monitoring of health and safety performance. The use of both reactive and active (pro-active) monitoring techniques. |
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State Four possible direct and Four possible indirect costs to an organisation following a serious accident at work. |
Direct Costs: Lost production Staff absence Repair of damaged plant & equipment Damage to products An increase in insurance premiums fines & uninsured costs arising from legal action, criminal or civil, including legal costs |
