You will need to decide how to eliminate, reduce and control the risk of respiratory disease in line with your overall health and safety policy. It is good practice to track these arrangements, and make sure that the text is clear.
The arrangements can be used as a tool to help you to monitor and review your safety performance, and ensure that you continue to control risks effectively.
Your arrangements for dealing with the risk of respiratory disease should link with your overall health and safety policy.
| Purpose/aim | What will the arrangements achieve? Will they prevent anyone from breathing hazardous substances or will you have look at some jobs more carefully? |
|---|---|
| Scope | Who do the arrangements affect? |
| Legal duties | What are the legal duties? |
| Objective(s) and targets | What are the objectives and how can you measure progress? It is important to choose objectives and set sensible targets to measure progress and where relevant, to specify and measure a baseline to assess how much progress has been made. |
| Risk control measures | How can you engage the workforce to work with you to reduce the risks? How can you avoid hazardous operations and improve risk control by reviewing specifications, materials and systems of work? |
| Information and training | How can you train and encourage our workforce to reduce the risks? Should you provide some incentives, formal training, toolbox talks and/or on the job training? |
| Monitoring | How will you check that the arrangements manage risk effectively? Are there any activities that you particularly need to review and monitor? How and when will you monitor the health of those who are still exposed to a risk? |
| Audit and review | When and how will you review the arrangements? |
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