This document provides information about health and safety in the workplace. It discusses various UK health and safety laws that employees must follow, such as the Health and Safety at Work Act, Manual Handling Regulations, and COSHH regulations. It also describes common safety signs and their meanings, such as prohibition, mandatory action, and hazard signs. The document emphasizes the importance of working safely and following evacuation procedures in emergency situations. Employees can seek extra help regarding health and safety from supervisors, human resources, or external organizations like the Health and Safety Executive.

2. OCR Award and Certificate
in
Employability Skills

3. Unit 6:
Understanding Health and Safety
in the Workplace

4. This unit is about:
Working safely
Health and safety law
in the workplace
Emergency!
Extra help

5. Health and safety law in the
workplace
Wherever you work, you will be bound by many health and
safety laws, such as:
Health and
Safety at Work
Act 1974

6. Health and safety law in the
workplace
Wherever you work, you will be bound by many health and
safety laws, such as:
Manual handling
regulations

7. Health and safety law in the
workplace
Wherever you work, you will be bound by many health and
safety laws, such as:
Food hygiene
regulations

8. Health and safety law in the
workplace
Wherever you work, you will be bound by many health and
safety laws, such as:
…and any other laws
relevant to your workplace.
COSHH
regulations

9. Working safely
You may have seen some of these UK safety signs:
The different colours and shapes are
important.
Do you know what the different colours and
shapes mean?

10. Working safely
You may have seen some of these UK safety signs:
The different colours and shapes are
important.
Red and white
crossed through
circle:
Prohibition signs

11. Working safely
You may have seen some of these UK safety signs:
The different colours and shapes are
important.
Blue and white circle:
Mandatory action signs

12. Working safely
You may have seen some of these UK safety signs:
The different colours and shapes are
important.
Yellow triangle:
Hazard signs

13. Working safely
You may have seen some of these UK safety signs:
The different colours and shapes are
important.
Red and white
rectangle or square:
Fire equipment signs

14. Working safely
You may have seen some of these UK safety signs:
The different colours and shapes are
important.
Green and white
rectangle or square:
Safety equipment
signs

15. Emergency!
In an emergency, such as a fire, important actions must be
carried out:
Tell a
colleague
or manager
Follow your
company’s
evacuation
procedure
Activate
the alarm
button
In what order should you do these things?

16. Extra help
Wherever you work, you can get more help about
Health and Safety from:
Your supervisor or
line manager
Your human
resources team

17. Extra help
Externally there are many organisations that offer more
help, such as:
Health and Safety
Executive (HSE)
Environmental
Health Officer
Trade Union

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 Slide 5 Health and safety law (easy read leaflet), 2009, HSE. Contains public sector information published by the Health and Safety Executive and licensed under the Open Government Licence
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