Scenario You have recently been employed as a civil engineering technician by a local contractor. The company has recently appointed a new Managing Director who has decided to focus on improving the company’s awareness of health and safety practices. Recently there have been a number of accidents and dangerous occurrences relating to site activities involving storage, handling and use of materials. T

Scenario

You have recently been employed as a civil engineering technician by a local contractor. The company has recently appointed a new Managing Director who has decided to focus on improving the company’s awareness of health and safety practices.

Recently there have been a number of accidents and dangerous occurrences relating to site activities involving storage, handling and use of materials. To ensure all the staff are aware of the importance of health and safety associated with the storage, handling and use of materials on site the Managing Director has asked you to prepare a 15 minute presentation (with a set of notes) on how to improve health and safety by sourcing relevant legislation and identifying risks associated with material storage, handling and their use. The presentation should consist of three parts:

Part 1 – Regulations associated with the storage, handling and use of materials on site (such as HA5AWA, CDM regulations, COSHH, PUWER, Manual Handling, PPE etc)

Part 2 – Risk Assessments and Method Statements (RAMS) how they can be used to manage risk associated with hazardous materials and activities

Part 3 – Finally, using the information from part 1 and 2 select a particular site activity the company is regularly involved in and explain the legislation that applies and highlight how to plan and manage the activity safely.