Health & Safety Importance
Managing engineering health and safety should be an employer’s first priority. With engineering especially, there is a much higher risk of injury than other industries, and care must be taken to reduce these risks. To be successful in managing engineering health and safety regulations, you should work to identify more serious risks and those that are likely to occur more often. That’s where our professional health and safety consultants come in.
We can work alongside you and your entire team to assess risks in your workplace or engineering environment, and keep other employees and non-employees safe on your premises. There are a number of ways in which Arinite can help you to follow the correct legislation and manage all health and safety issues correctly and effectively.
Preparation Details
Engineering health and safety involves planning and organising different measures to ensure employees and other people on site are safe. After an assessment, you’ll know where any hazards are, and can then work effectively to fix these and protect everyone around you.
When lifting engineering equipment or operating heavy machinery, for example, people need to be aware of the risks and to carry out visual checks at the very least before attempting an activity.
Thorough examinations should be carried out at regular intervals to ensure you follow legal requirements. We’ll discuss with you how to ensure these checks fit into your daily plans and what you should look for in each individual check.
With any industry, safety is a crucial element, but with health and safety in engineering, serious injury or even death could occur if employees aren’t given the right information. As well as being aware of the risks involved and where potential hazard could be, they should be given the right training to enable them to work safely and to protect anyone in the vicinity. Our consultants can help you provide the correct and relevant training to keep your staff safe.
ccidents are common when lifting equipment if the correct rules aren’t followed. The right training should be given for those who are lifting and handling engineering equipment or using machinery:
- Handling techniques
- How to use mechanical aids
- Recognising incorrect handling