CHAPTER 10

Identifying Health Hazards

In the previous sections, we identified safety and security hazards in your business, using your own site plans to act as a prompt or reminder while you looked at every stage of the process. We will use the same approach to complete Checklists 10, 11, and 12. Of course, you will be able to work through this section quite quickly as it follows the same pattern as before.

As with safety hazards, there are many ways to define “health hazards,” but from a practical point of view, the following list of headings should cover the most common types of health hazard you, your workers, or customers are likely to meet. Unfortunately, it is often much more difficult to see how the way you normally work might threaten ...

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