Practical Health and Safety Management for Small Businesses

Looking at the needs of small businesses, this book takes you through all the aspects of Health and Safety management in a small business step-by-step. It takes a straightforward, practical approach to identifying, organising and managing Health, Safety and Fire risks in your business. Whatever your motivation for choosing this guide, it will provide a sound basis for establishing a system or approach that is relevant to the individual business concerned.
Practical Health and Safety Management for Small Businesses will help you to identify all the potential hazards, offering advice on how best to look after your employees and how to manage Health and Safety in your business. It has been produced as a direct result of recent research, based on discussions with Health and Safety Inspectors, the Fire Authorities, Insurance representatives, Health and Safety professionals, and of course, Small Businesses themselves. Taking into account the practical issues faced in small business units, this guide takes you through all the main aspects of managing fire, health and safety step-by-step.
Practical Health and Safety Management for Small Businesses will help you establish a system that you can maintain, add-to and keep up-to-date as official regulations and your needs change. It is NOT a legal textbook, but IS a practical guide on how to establish an approach to organising and managing these issues. While following this guide cannot guarantee that your business now fully complies with all the relevant legislation that applies to it, it does enable you to demonstrate to others that you have made a reasonable attempt at bringing all these different elements together in a structured, holistic way.
Full of practical advice sample Site Plans and Checklists, photographs and industry-specific sections, Practical Health and Safety Management for Small Businesses will prove an invaluable guide for all those involved in running smaller business units, as well as those offering support, advice or guidance to SMEs.
The author, Jacqueline Jeynes, has run her own small business for 13 years and has represented the concerns of UK small firms internationally for seven years, through the Federation of Small Businesses' Policy unit. She has appeared in 10 BBC TV programmes on health and safety in small firms and is currently a UK member of the Advisory Committee to the European Commission on Safety, Health and Hygiene.

Jacqueline Jeynes

Part 1 Context; Introduction; Chapter 1 Your business; Chapter 2 The premises; Chapter 3 Processes and movement of goods through the business; Part 2 Controlling Safety Risks; Chapter 4 Safety and security hazards; Chapter 5 Assessing the safety risks; Chapter 6 Controls in place to reduce risks; Part 3 Controlling Health Risks; Chapter 7 Health hazards; Chapter 8 Assessing the health risks; Chapter 9 Health controls in place to reduce risks; Part 4 Controlling Fire Risks; Chapter 10 Fire hazards; Chapter 11 Assessing fire risks; Chapter 12 Fire controls in place to reduce risks; Part 5 Effective Management of Fire, Health and Safety Risks in the Business; Chapter 13 Managing the risks; Chapter 14 Your policy; Chapter 15 Conclusion; Part 6 Industry-specific Hazards and Risks; Chapter 16 Case study examples; Chapter 17 Sources of advice and guidance;