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New edition - HSE's The Essentials of health and safety at work
A unique and fully comprehensive information guide, to help you improve health and safety practices in your workplace. With easy to use reference sections for most types of business.
The Health and Safety Executive's (HSE) Essentials should help you prevent accidents and comply with the law without major disruption or expense.
Straightforward advice from the most authoritative source in the country.
HSE’s best selling title has been updated and revised for 2006.
- packed with useful information covering the whole range of workplace hazards
- expanded to include slips and trips, work at height, contractors and agency workers, and general fire safety.
- new sections on stress, rehabilitation and sickness absence
- a focus on special groups – young people, disabled people, language provision for non-Engish speakers, new and expectant mothers, lone and mobile workers
- now contains an easy-to-use subject index.
This is a new edition of this very popular book. It explains what the law requires and helps employers put it into practice.
Chapter 1 suggests how to tackle the basics of health and safety, also how to identify, assess and control the activities that might cause harm in a business.
Chapters 2 to 25 are for anyone who needs to know more about a particular health and safety subject. There are several new chapters dealing with, e.g. slips and trips, work at height, contractors and agency workers and general fire safety, as well as new sections on subjects such as stress, rehabilitation and sickness absence.
Supersedes all earlier editions published with ISBNs 0118854453, 0118854941, 0118839772 & 071760716X.
HSE Essentials of health and safety at work. 2006 ISBN 0717661792
HSE Books HSE Books, PO Box 1999, Sudbury, Suffolk CO10 2WA. Tel: 01787 881165
www.hsebooks.com.