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Health and safety training is for the safety of yourself and others around you. Its purpose is to provide you with the knowledge to avoid hazards in the workplace or to be able to protect yourself from them. Definitely for the safety of your self and others around you. A lot of jobs (such as construction) can have a lot of hazards in the workplace and it could be bad for a worker's health and safety. Giving them the right training for health and safety will give them the education to avoid such hazards in the workplace or how to handle such situations.
If you don't have an initial induction into health and safety at your workplace you will not know what the hazards are, how they are to be avoided, or how to seek guidance or assistance when needed. Then you can get hurt or killed.
The Occupational Health and Safety Act governs health and safety in the workplace in Ontario.
In the UK, the most important act of Parliament for safety in the workplace is the Health and Safety At Work Actof 1974. for more information see the related link, below.
A written policy on health and safety is important in the workplace because it clearly establishes the expectations of top management with regard to preserving the health and safety of employees, visitors, and customers. This discourages misunderstandings and inappropriate risk taking, and supports the worker or manager who calls attention to a health or safety issue or problem.
Health and safety is important in the workplace because no one wants to be injured or made sick by their work activities. Also, injured or ill employees make for a less efficient workplace and thus lower productivity.
Personal presentation has little to do with maintaining health and safety in the workplace, unless your presentation is distracting to others. Personal behavior is important in maintaining health and safety in the workplace because it includes such things as:working conscientiouslybeing aware of what others are doing that might subject them to hazards from your activityfollowing established safe work procedureskeeping the workplace neat and orderlyavoiding horseplay and other distractions.
The person designated health and safety officer.
Mr Ho Siong HinMember, WSH CouncilCommissioner for Workplace Safety and Health, Ministry of Manpower
In reporting of workplace health and safety, TRC stands for Total Recordable Cases.
Regulations are usually government requirements. Health and safety regulations are government requirements that relate to preserving or providing health and safety. Health and safety regulations in a workplace are regulations that relate to providing or preserving health and safety in that workplace. There are two kinds of health and safety regulations: "general regulations" that apply to all workplaces, and "industry specific" regulations that apply to specific workplaces.
The primary federal agency governing health and safety in the workplace in the us is the Occupational Safety and Health Administration. But there are many other agencies that have responsibilities in this regard.