Accidents involving knives and cleavers are common in the #catering industry.

As an employer, you must ensure that your employees are kept safe from harm so far as is reasonably practicable.

You must assess the risk of your employees being cut and take reasonable precautions.

Organising an event?

Whatever the scale of the event, make sure there is a clear understanding within the organising team of who is responsible for safety matters.

For organisations with five or more employees, this is likely to be driven by the company's health and safety policy.

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Report 📑 Smart digital monitoring systems for occupational safety and health: uses and challenges

This research review proposes a working definition and distinguishes between proactive and reactive #OSH monitoring

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🔴 Inhalation of metalworking fluid mist can cause lung diseases such as occupational asthma and occupational hypersensitivity pneumonitis

🔴 Skin contact with metalworking fluids can cause dermatitis

Have you, as an employer, fully assessed the risks in your workplace?

If you are planning to move to a new workplace or modify an existing one, remember that noise emissions and exposure can be limited by good design, layout and the materials used in a building

Consider using absorption materials to reduce or limit the effects of reflected sound

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Reminder: Where it is reasonably practicable to do so, employers must reduce noise exposure by means other than the provision of hearing protection, e.g. by:

- design changes to a process, component or machine

- segregating noisy machines from employees

- damping machine parts

AI-driven and algorithmic worker management in EU workplaces - what are the facts and figures?

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The key to reducing injuries to workers throughout the supply chain is close cooperation between suppliers, manufacturers and retailers.

Issues which affect parties upstream or downstream need to be discussed freely and action taken to minimise any adverse effect on others.

#supplychain

Prolonged sitting, psychosocial risks and digitalisation top workplace safety and health concerns, EU survey reveals ⤵️

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A COSHH assessment concentrates on the hazards and risks from hazardous substances in your workplace, but health hazards are not limited to substances labelled as hazardous.

Some harmful substances can be produced by the process you use at work e.g. wood dust from sanding.

Employers: It makes sense to consult and involve your workforce.

Your workers and their representatives know first-hand what the risks in the workplace are and can often suggest practical solutions to control them.

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