Further guidance about workplace health and safety in the health and social care services sector

Enforcement

Details of all notices issued and prosecutions made by HSE against the healthcare sector since April 1999.

• Prosecutions in health services
• Notices in health services

Guidance documents

The following booklets and Information Sheets are available from HSE Books online at http://books.hse.gov.uk or by telephone from HSE Books on 01787-881165.

Air tube transport systems

• Safe use of pneumatic air tube transport systems for pathology specimens. (MISC 186). [22KB] HSE Books 1999

Cytotoxic drugs

• Safe Handling of Cytotoxic Drugs (MISC615) [66KB]
• Handling cytotoxic drugs in isolators in NHS pharmacies [98KB]

Glutaraldehyde

Ionising radiation

• Fitness of equipment used for medical exposure to ionising radiation. HSE Books 1998 - ISBN 0 7176 1482 4

Laboratories

• Safety in health service laboratories: Safe working and the prevention of infection in clinical laboratories. HSE Books 2003 - ISBN 0 7176 2513 3

Please note

• Amendments to this guidance

• Service laboratories: Safe working and the prevention of infection in the mortuary and post-mortem room. HSE Books 2003 - ISBN 0 7176 2293 2

Latex

• Latex and you. INDG 320 [182KB] HSE Books 2000 - ISBN 0 7176 1777 7

Legionella

• Controlling Legionella in nursing and residential care homes. INDG253 [157KB] HSE Books 1997

Manual handling:

• Manual handling in the health services. HSE Books 1998 - ISBN 0 7176 1248 1
• Getting to grips with handling problems. HSE Books 1993 - ISBN 0 7176 0622 8
• The guide to the handling of people( 5th Edition)
  ISBN 0-9530582-9-8
• Ambulance Services Association
• Handling Home Care.
  HSE Books. ISBN 0 7176 2228 2
• Caring for cleaners
  HSE Books. ISBN 0 7176 2682 2
• Manual Handling in Health services
  HSE Books. ISBN 0 7176 1248 1
• Manual Handling Guidance on Regulations
  HSE Books. ISBN 0 7176 2823 X
• All Wales Manual Handling Passport Training and Information Scheme
• Manual Handling Assessment Chart Tool (MAC)

Occupational health services

• The management of occupational health services for healthcare staff. HSE Books 1993 - ISBN 011882127X

Slips and trips

• Slips and Trips in Healthcare (Health Services Sheet No 2) [37KB]

Violence and aggression

• Violence and aggression to staff in health services: Guidance on assessment and management. HSE Books 1997 - ISBN 0 7176 1466 2

Videos

Employees' and employers' stories about accidents, near misses, hazards and risks to health and safety.

• Health service videos
• Medical services
• Slip, trips and falls

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