Health & Safety

Management of occupational health & safety issues

Tools in this category address health and safety at work. They explain how to conduct risk assessments of work places, how to prevent accidents and how to provide health care to employees in order to ensure their well being.

Showing 1 to 5 of 5 in order of most recently published Show all

Occupational Health Check-Up (CIA)

This self assessment developed by the Chemical Industries Association (CIA) in the UK covers 11 subject areas linked to occupational health. Results give valuable indication of the extent to which a chemical company is providing health care.

CIA Health Check Up

Contact : John Roche (RocheJ@cia.org.uk)

EU-OSHA Materials for Safe Maintenance

The European Agency for Health & Safety at Work (EU-OSHA) provides materials to support its Safe Maintenance campaign. Maintenance is essential to keep the working environment safe & healthy; on the other hand, it is a high-risk activity that has to be performed in a safe way. The website provides a number of topical publications such as leaflets, fact sheets, presentations, awareness videos and reports.

» Campaign material

Contact: EU-OSHA contact form

EU-OSHA Materials for Risk Assessment in Workplaces

The European Agency for Health & Safety at Work (EU-OSHA) provides materials to support occupational risk assessment in companies (posters, leaflets, etc.) tailored for SMEs. The website provides a number of topical publications such as information on exposure to vibration, skin diseases and dermal exposure, the prevention of work-related musculoskeletal disorders a. o. (not specifically tailored for chemical industry).

» An european campaign on risk assessment

Contact : EU-OSHA contact form

Risk Management Toolkit for SMEs (VTT Finland a. o.)

The toolkit provides practical tools and easy-to-read information for the development of risk management in SMEs.

'Instruction books' provide background material for the topic in question.
'Work books' allows for in-depth examination of risks. Info cards summarize specific areas of risk management. Issues covered include vulnerability analysis, personnel & environmental risks a. o.

The tool kit has been developped by VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland in cooperation with IOSH (UK) and EU-OSHA (not specifically tailored for chemical industry).

» Risk Management in SMEs

Contact: Institution of Occupational Safety & Health (UK)

Five Steps to Risk Assessment Leaflet (UK)

The leaflet developed by the Health & Safety Executive (UK) is a short and simple guidance to risk assessment in the workplace. It helps companies assess conduct risk assessments and to comply with regulation indicating simple, cheap and effective measures to ensure that employees are protected (not specifically tailored for chemical industry).