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What can you do to make mental health a priority in your workplace?
Whether you are an employer, worker, health and safety representative, or HR professional there is a role for everyone in creating safer and healthier working environments.
Explore a wealth of resources and tools to better understand psychosocial risks and discover how you can contribute to preventing them.
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Put prevention into practice!
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Young people at work may be eager to impress or please people they work with, so you must supervise them effectively and make sure that they understand any training and instruction.
They may also be unaware of how to raise concerns, so include this is as part of their training.
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The Fit2Fit RPE Fit Test Providers Accreditation Scheme is designed to confirm the competency of those performing RPE fit testing.
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🔵 It is a legal requirement that workers using tight-fitting RPE are fit tested by a competent person
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RPE is for use only when other controls e.g. elimination, substitution, engineering controls, or safe systems of work cannot adequately reduce exposure
Under H&S law it should be used only after you have taken all other reasonably practicable steps to prevent or control exposure
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When sourced responsibly, PPE contributes to a safer and more productive workforce.
PPE Saves 🔗 ow.ly/VASw50VElhH
PPE isn’t just about compliance - it’s about keeping people well, engaged and performing at their best.
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Careful selection, maintenance and regular operator training is needed for equipment for use in emergencies, e.g. compressed-air escape breathing apparatus, respirators and safety ropes or harnesses.
🔵 As an employer, do you make sure this is done effectively in your business?
The European Week for Safety and Health at Work unites voices across borders around a shared goal: raising awareness of psychosocial risks at work.
This year, we are putting mental health at the heart of the conversation because preventing psychosocial risks and creating supportive working environments requires action from all of us 🤝
Join us 🔗 ppe.link/7c
ℹ️ @EU_OSHA
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Breathing in hazardous substances puts your workers' health at risk and may cause respiratory diseases and conditions including asthma, COPD and cancers
🔵 Get it checked right away and save lives in the long run
Do you think there may be a breathing hazard at work?
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Reminder: As an employer, you are responsible for ensuring that all people involved with the selection, use and maintenance of respiratory protective equipment have received adequate training such that the RPE provides effective control of wearers’ exposure.
29% of workers in the EU experience stress, anxiety or depression caused or worsened by work.
🔴 This has to stop 🔴
This year’s European Week for Safety and Health highlights the need to address psychosocial risks and help ensure safe and healthy workplaces for everyone.
🔗 ppe.link/hwc
ℹ️ @EU_OSHA
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For wearers of respiratory protective equipment to be protected they need to receive proper training.
Do you know your responsibilities and what training is required?
Advice for employers 🔗 ow.ly/WaHN50ZWEKf
🔵 Users of all types of RPE require training
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Do you assess the risks of exposure to hazardous substances before choosing RPE and starting work?
Remember that you must identify the steps needed to control the risks, apply them and ensure that they remain effective.
🔵 RPE can be one of the control measures
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Have you eliminated the use of dangerous fixed blades in your workplace?
Cutting out knife injuries 🔗 ow.ly/zcuT50IWYLj
🔵 Protect your team by eliminating the risks associated with knife use
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The updated IT’S IN YOUR HANDS© campaign guide sets out clear advice for employers and employees on how to prevent work-related skin disease.
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🔵 Hazardous substances must be assessed and controlled before work begins
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Remember that hearing protection, such as earmuffs, is your last line of defence against hearing damage
🔵 Your employer should provide it and train you on how to use it and get replacements
🔵 Your employer should consult you and offer a choice of type and design
Asbestos essentials - includes building, maintenance and allied trades on how to safely carry out non-licensed work involving asbestos ⤵️
Do you know where asbestos could be hiding?
It can be found in any building built or refurbished before 2000.
Know what to look for and what to do if you come across it.
Download our quick guide for trades: hse.gov.uk/asbestos/essentia…
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If you select hearing and head protection from different sources, make sure the combined system has been tested and certified against EN 352-3.
🔵 It is also good practice to perform fit testing of a combination system
Your ears may be covered, but are you protected?
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Employers must develop effective work procedures for the use and storage of flammable materials.
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Use our guide to the safe storage of hazardous materials.
🔵 Workers must be fully trained in those procedures
HSE is raising awareness of engineered stone risks
There's a new campaign website to act as a hub of advice and resources
Take a look at the campaign toolkit ⤵️
You could save lives by helping to share this message...
“Silicosis is incurable, but entirely preventable with the right controls.”
Support HSE's engineered stone campaign, download the toolkit:
workright.campaign.gov.uk/en…
#Quartz #ArtificialStone #Comms
ALT Your support can save lives - download the campaign toolkit for engineered stone.