Modern occupational safety and health legislation usually demands that a risk assessment be carried out prior to making an intervention. Sphere Risk Health and Safety Management are aware that risk management requires risk to be managed to a level which is as low as is reasonably practical. This health safety Cambridge assessment by Sphere Risk Health and Safety Management should identify the hazards; identify all affected by the hazard and how; evaluate the risk and identify and prioritize appropriate control measures.
Occupational health and safety is a cross-disciplinary area concerned with protecting the safety, health and welfare of people engaged in work or employment. Sphere Risk Health and Safety Management’s occupational health and safety Cambridge risk assessment is to foster a safe work environment. As a secondary effect, it may also protect co-workers, family members, employers, customers, suppliers, nearby communities, and other members of the public who are impacted by the workplace environment.
The reasons for establishing good occupational health and safety standards are frequently identified as: moral, an employee should not have to risk injury or death at work; economic, poor occupational health and safety performance results in cost to the State (e.g. through social security payments to the incapacitated, costs for medical treatment, and the loss of the “employability” of the worker). A health safety Cambridge assessment will help to keep these costs to a minimum.
Employing organisations also sustain costs in the event of an incident at work (such as legal fees, fines, compensatory damages, investigation time, lost production, lost goodwill from the workforce, from customers and from the wider community). There are also legal implications, occupational requirements may be reinforced in civil law and/or criminal law; it is accepted that without the extra “encouragement” of potential regulatory action or litigation, many organisations would not act upon their implied moral obligations. A health safety Cambridge assessment will show the employing organisation exactly where these problems may occur.
In the UK, health and safety legislation is drawn up and enforced by the Health and Safety Executive and local authorities (the local council) under the Health and Safety at Work Act 1974. Increasingly in the UK the regulatory trend is away from prescriptive rules, and towards risk assessment. Recent major changes to the laws governing asbestos and fire safety management embrace the concept of risk assessment. A hazard is something that can cause harm if not controlled, with the outcome the harm that results from an uncontrolled hazard. A risk is a combination of the probability that a particular outcome will occur and the severity of the harm involved. Sphere Risk Health and Safety Management will identify all risks and hazards during their health and safety Cambridge risk assessment.
Occupational health and safety Cambridge has come a long way from its beginnings in the heavy industry sector. It now has an impact on every worker, in every work place, and those charged with managing health and safety are having more and more tasks added to their portfolio. The most significant responsibility is environmental protection. The skills delivered by Sphere Risk Health and Safety Cambridge Management to manage occupational health and safety are compatible with environmental protection and all current legislation.
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