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Updating author: Richard
Bretton
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Summary
Future developments
Practical example
Action point
checklist
Key references
Questions and answers
Health
surveillance
Procedures for serious and imminent
danger and for danger areas
Safety
information
Safety training
Summary
8.578
- Every employer is required to ensure that its employees are provided with
such health surveillance as is appropriate having regard to the risks to their
health and safety that are identified by risk assessment. (See 8.580 Health surveillance)
- Employers must establish, and where necessary give effect to, procedures
for any worker to follow if situations presenting serious and imminent danger
arise. (See 8.581 Procedures for serious and
imminent danger and for danger areas)
- Employers must provide their employees with comprehensible and relevant
information on the risks to their health and safety, control measures,
procedures for serious and imminent danger and danger areas and the identity
of fire wardens and other staff nominated to help if there is an
evacuation. (See 8.582 Safety information)
- Employers are required to provide adequate health and safety
training. (See 8.583 Safety training)
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Future developments
8.579 There are no future developments.
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Health surveillance
8.580 Health surveillance is a process involving a range of
techniques used to detect early signs of work-related ill health among workers
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