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This 10 page paper is written in two parts. The first part of the paper looks at how to assess the health risk in an environment where there is heavy lifting, such as a nursing home or a warehouse. The second part of the paper looks at different tools that can be used when assessing risks in health and safety as well as the legal obligations faced by a compnay in terms of health and safety provision. The bibliography cites 12 sources.
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10 pages (~225 words per page)
File: TS14_TEhsafety.rtf
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exposure to risk. For example, of we are looking at the risk of a back injury in a nursing home or warehouse where there is lifting a range of tools
could be used to assess the risks. It may be commonsense that in an environment where there is lifting there will be dangers to the back as well
as other physical risks. However knowing the presence of the risks alone is not sufficient in order to assess the level of the risk or to assess the best ways
of reducing the risk. In using a risk assessment there is not only the need to identify these different factors, but also assess their likelihood of occurring and the
impact they may have on plan (Courtney et al, 1997, Smallman, 1996, Hood et al, 1992). There are many tools, of which
none can be argued as being the one best tool and none are the single worst. In this paper we will look at tools that can be used. The student
has been guided to both the areas of their lecture and additional research so we will look to base the ideas and work on both these areas. There are
many models which are used to assess risk, each have different advantages and disadvantages. If we use a mind map to look at the types of risks that may be
faced with we will see a range of risks, these may be divided into different types of risk. The first is the risk of the lifting not being undertaken
properly due to lack of knowledge. This may be the way goods or people are top be lifted in terms of technique or the way equipment should be used to
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