1.9 health and safety

Safe working practices

Guidelines that employer may produce for overall health and safety

Includes training, machine maintenance, extraction systems, PPE and accident reporting

Training

Ensuring employees can safely use machinery and equipment needed for their job

Can be in-house or formal certification training

Health and Safety at Work Act 1974

The main piece of legislation for British health and safety law

Control of Substances Hazardous to Health (COSHH)

Legislation from 2002 to prevent, reduce, or control people's exposure to hazardous substances in the workplace.

Health and safety in product manufacture

Manufacturers need to consider worker safety and how to prove an accident investigation team that safe working practices have been adopted

safety precautions

Measures taken to prevent accidents during experiments.

Risk assessment

Considerations of what might cause harm to people and if reasonable steps are taken to prevent that harm

Consumer protection act 1987

The act which safeguards consumer from products which do not reach a reasonable level of safety

Trade Descriptions Act 1968

The act making it an offence for a trader to make or apply false statements about a product or service

British Standards Institution (BSI)

An organisation dedicated to producing British (BS) and European (EN) quality and safety standards, and testing products against those standards for companies wishing to register their products.

Toy safety - lion mark

Shows consumers that the toy has been made with quality and safety in mind