Health and safety
Information on key aspects of health and safety for engineers, technicians and managers.
Colour vision defects
This fact sheet answers some of the common questions asked by people who think they may have some form of colour vision defect, as well as those asked by employers.
Colour Vision Defects
(325 k) Updated March 2007
Health and safety guide
A short factfile explaining health and safety, covering the general health and safety framework in the UK, the cost of accidents, safety culture, occupational health, and risk assessments.
Currently being updated
Electrical Safety - A perspective based on incidents
This discussion paper provides information about electrical safety incidents and the serious nature of the issue. For discussion purposes it highlights the eight steps proposed that organisations might undertake to reduce the number of future incidents.
Electrical Safety - A perspective based on incidents
(1618 k) Updated March 2009
Health and safety briefings
Over 50 short briefings designed to demystify health and safety topics, from dealing with asbestos to reducing stress at work. These have been broken down into 4 sections, namely management, specific hazards, controlling risk, and legislation.
Management of health and safety
Behaviour based safety
(184 k) Updated July 2009
Reporting of events - a just or blame free approach
(68 k) Updated February 2010
Construction Design and Management Regulations (CDM 2007)
(82 k) Updated June 2008
Consultation with employees
(77 k) Updated April 2009
Cost of safety
(71 k) Updated July 2009
Do accidents and ill-health cost me money?
(65 k) Updated January 2008
Duties of directors
(79 k) Updated April 2009
Fire Safety Risk Assessment
(87 k) Updated January 2010
Fire risk assessment
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Glossary of safety terminology
(99 k) Updated April 2009
Health and safety management
(78 k) Updated April 2009
Indicators and targets
(72 k) Updated April 2009
Managing contractors
(76 k) Updated February 2010
Office Safety Management
(100 k) Updated July 2009
Organisational change and safety
(66 k) Updated January 2010
Reasonably Practicable
(65 k) Updated July 2009
Risk Assessment - legal position and interpretation
(77 k) Updated April 2009
Risk based inspection
(71 k) Updated April 2009
Safe systems of work
(62 k) Updated January 2010
Safety culture
(75 k) Updated July 2009
Safety management systems
(68 k) Updated July 2009
Safety policy statement
(74 k) Updated July 2009
Young people at work
(65 k) Updated May 2009
Specific hazards
Asbestos including asbestos surveys
(84 k) Updated May 2009
Consumer protection
(68 k) Updated February 2010
Display screen equipment risk assessment
(83 k) Updated May 2009
Display screen equipment - self assessment
(64 k) Updated May 2009
Driving safely
(123 k) Updated January 2010
Electricity in the workplace
(67 k) Updated February 2010
Electricity in the workplace - FAQs
(76 k) Updated February 2010
Equipment and protective systems for use in potentially explosive atmospheres
(71 k) Updated May 2009
Homeworking and teleworking
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Manual handling
(76 k) Updated May 2009
Personal protective equipment
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Polychlorinated Biphenyls PCBs
(74 k) Updated February 2009
Portable appliance testing PAT Testing
(78 k) Updated October 2009
Rosin Fluxes - fumes and asthma
(64 k) Updated February 2010
Stress at work
(77 k) Updated January 2008
Visitor safety
(57 k) Updated May 2009
Working at height
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Controlling risk
Determining the acceptability of risk
(91 k) Updated January 2010
Hazard analysis HAZAN
(71 k) Updated May 2009
Hazard and operability studies HAZOP
(88 k) Updated May 2009
Lifting operations and equipement LOLER
(79 k) Updated January 2010
Permit to work systems
(70 k) Updated November 2007
Quantified Risk Assessment Techniques part 1 - failure modes and effects analysis - FEMA
(85 k) Updated May 2009
Quantified Risk Assessment Techniques part 2 - event tree analysis - ETA
(94 k) Updated March 2009
Quantified Risk Assessment Techniques part 3 - fault tree analysis - FTA
(120 k) Updated May 2009
Risk Assessment - practical application in the workplace
(75 k) Updated May 2009
Health and safety legislation
CDM regulations
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Confined spaces regulations 1997
(79 k) Updated February 2008
Control of major accident hazards regulations 1999
(79 k) Updated May 2009
Control of substances hazardous to health COSHH
(74 k) Updated January 2010
Experience with the supply of machinery safety regulations 1992
(68 k) Updated May 2009
Legal responsibilities and penalties set out in Health and Safety at Work Act 1974
(74 k) Updated May 2009
Provision and use of work equipment
(71 k) Updated September 2007
RIDDOR
(93 k) Updated January 2010
Safety regulations likely to affect IET members
(65 k) Updated September 2007
Lessons to be learnt from health and safety law
Examples of health and safety case law showing how to avoid litigation in the field of health and safety.
Failure to provide safety equipment
(74 k) Updated May 2009
Risk assessment of display screen equipment
(60 k) Updated July 2008
Control of substances hazardous to health COSHH
(60 k) Updated July 2008
Corporate responsibility for non employees
(57 k) Updated July 2008
Interpretation of risk
(58 k) Updated July 2008
Delegation of responsibility
(60 k) Updated July 2008
Stress in the workplace
(70 k) Updated July 2008
Stress in the workplace - check list
(73 k) Updated July 2008
Advice on interconnecting mains-powered equipment
A short factfile giving advice on interconnecting mains-powered equipment in the home and avoiding electrical shocks.
Advice on interconnecting mains powered equipment
(48 k) Updated December 2007
Safety, Health and Environmental Risk
The teaching of safety, health and environmental risk (SHE) issues to undergraduates studying engineering courses is an important part of the education of future engineers, and is generally thought to be an area insufficiently covered in current courses. The Inter-Institutional Group on Health and Safety has produced this document, which may be used by lecturers and course designers, as a guide to providing undergraduates with a basic understanding of SHE issues relevant to their specific course of professional study.
Incorporating Safety, Health and Environmental Risk issues in Undergraduate Engineering Courses
(110 k) Updated July 2008