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Useful INDG Health and Safety Guides - page 7
Health and Safety Executive
INDG is an Acronym for Industry Guidance
Health and Safety INDG Industry Guides 472 to 480
> INDG472 - Preventing accidents to children on farms
> INDG473 - SMART paint spraying: How to control health and safety risk
> INDG474 - Lifting equipment at work: A brief guide
> INDG476 - Storing and selling pyrotechnic articles safely
> INDG477 - Storing and selling shooting supplies safely
> INDG478 - Risk assessment of pushing and pulling (RAPP) tool
> INDG479 - Guidance on respiratory protective equipment (RPE) fit testing
> INDG480 - Hand-arm vibration in amenity horticulture and how to control the risk
INDG472 - Preventing accidents to children on farms
Agriculture has one of the highest fatal injury rates of any industry in Great Britain, but is the only high-risk industry that has to deal with the constant presence of children. Farms are homes as well as workplaces, and visitors, including children, may also be present on farms.
Children and young people up to the age of 18 are regularly killed and injured on farms, either because they are working on the farm or because they are playing there.
The ways in which children are killed varies little from year to year. The most common causes of death and major injury in the last decade were:
> falling from vehicles;
> being struck by moving vehicles or objects;
> contact with machinery;
> driving vehicles;
> falls from height;
> drowning and asphyxiation;
> poisoning;
> fire;
> contact with animals.
The children who died were:
> being carried as passengers on agricultural plant and machinery;
> not under proper adult supervision;
> working/helping around the farm;
> playing unsupervised; or
> trespassing.
For the main risk areas, this leaflet:
> provides practical guidance on how to reduce the risk of injury to children under 13 and older children below minimum school leaving age (usually 16);
> identifies tasks and operations that are too hazardous for children and young people to do and includes examples of inc.
INDG473 - SMART paint spraying: How to control health and safety risk
Who is this leaflet for?
This guide is for SMART (small and medium area repair technique) repair sprayers using isocyanate-based and other paints and who generally have no fixed place of work. It is also useful for franchisees, managers and operators in motor vehicle repair bodyshops, who manage, carry out or commission SMART type repair. It replaces the previous version, published as Motor vehicle repair: Good practice for SMART sprayers (WEB33).
What is it about?
It describes how to control risks to health and safety from paint spraying in SMART repairs. These procedures are normally sufficient to achieve ‘adequate control’ for SMART spraying techniques, as defined under the Control of Substances Hazardous to Health Regulations 2002 (COSHH).
Paints include surface coatings that are dried or cured by infrared or UV light, chemical hardeners or other means. Some of the paints and lacquers used in SMART repairs contain isocyanates.
There is a chance of developing occupational asthma when working with isocyanate-based paints/lacquers, and also of developing dermatitis from these and other ‘reactive’ products. If you become affected you will probably never be able to work with these products again.
INDG474 - Lifting equipment at work: A brief guide
This leaflet is mainly for dutyholders (employers, the self-employed and people who have some level of control over lifting equipment). It provides advice on the Lifting Operations and Lifting Equipment Regulations 1998 (LOLER) which deal with the specific risks associated with the use of lifting equipment. It describes what you should do to protect yourself, your employees and others in the workplace. It will also be useful to employees and their representatives.
LOLER covers work equipment in workplaces where the Health and Safety at Work etc Act 1974 (the HSW Act) applies, this includes factories, offshore installations, agricultural premises, construction sites, offices, shops, hospitals, hotels, places of entertainment etc.
INDG476 - Storing and selling pyrotechnic articles safely
Are you planning to sell pyrotechnic articles (eg theatrical pyrotechnics, marine and lifesaving pyrotechnics such as flares, paintball and airsoft products, or birdscarers)? This leaflet has been written to help you protect the safety of your staff and customers and comply with the law.
You must do a risk assessment. This means thinking about what might cause harm to people and deciding whether you are taking reasonable steps to prevent that harm.
The main questions you need to ask yourself about how pyrotechnic articles being stored and sold on retail premises can harm people are:
> How could a fire start?
> How could it spread?
> What do I need to do to protect people if there is a fire?
The actions you need to take are actions to:
> prevent a fire starting;
> stop it spreading;
> protect people in the event of a fire
INDG477 - Storing and selling shooting supplies safely
Are you planning to sell explosive shooting supplies (eg ammunition, capped cartridge cases, primers and percussion caps, and shooters’ powders)? This leaflet has been written to help you protect the safety of your staff and customers and comply with the law.
You must do a risk assessment. This means thinking about what might cause harm to people and decide whether you are taking reasonable steps to prevent that harm.
The main questions you need to ask yourself about how shooting supplies being stored and sold on retail premises can harm people are:
> How could a fire start?
> How could it spread?
> What do I need to do to protect people if there is a fire?
The actions you need to take are actions to:
> prevent a fire starting;
> stop it spreading;
> protect people in the event of a fire.
INDG478 - Risk assessment of pushing and pulling (RAPP) tool
This tool is designed to help assess the key risks in manual pushing and pulling operations involving whole-body effort, eg moving loaded trolleys or roll cages, or dragging, hauling, sliding or rolling loads.
It is intended to be used alongside the Manual handling assessment charts (the MAC tool) which helps assess lifting and carrying operations, and follows a similar approach to that tool. It is aimed at those responsible for health and safety in workplaces and will help you to identify high-risk pushing and pulling activities and check the effectiveness of any risk-reduction measures.
INDG479 - Guidance on respiratory protective equipment (RPE) fit testing
This guide gives advice on fit testing for the employer and those conducting fit tests.
This guide provides:
> information on fit test methods;
> information on what can be achieved from a fit test; and
> the core information to be included in a fit test report.
Following this guidance is not compulsory and you are free to take other actions to comply with the requirements of the law. But if you do follow the guidance you will normally be doing enough to comply with the law. Health and safety inspectors seek to secure compliance with the law and may refer to this guidance as illustration of good practice.
INDG480 Hand-arm vibration in amenity horticulture and how to control the risk
This guidance advises employers in amenity horticulture how to protect workers from the risk of hand-arm vibration. As an employer, it will help you identify when exposure may cause harm, understand how to comply with the Control of Vibration at Work Regulations 2005 (the Vibration Regulations) and take practical steps to control the vibration risk.
--------Other Guides-----------------
•Europa : osha.europa.eu factsheets
•Europa : Work - related musculoskeletal disorders: Back to work
•Europa : Hazards & Risks Associated with Manual Handling in the Workplace
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