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News Release from: Signs and Labels | Subject: HaSARD Risk Assessment Software
Edited by the Manufacturingtalk Editorial
Team on 19 November 2002
Manage health and safety risks
effectively
Risk assessment software provides a simple solution to managing and completing health and safety risk assessments in the workplace by means of a user friendly CD-ROM.
Safetyshop, from Signs and Labels, the UK's leading suppliers of workplace safety and maintenance equipment now offers the HaSARD Risk Assessment Software which can provide a simple solution to managing and completing health and safety risk assessments in the workplace with a user friendly CD-ROM Health and Safety law and regulations affect the whole of an organisation
This article was originally published on Manufacturingtalk on 20 Aug 2002 at 8.00am (UK)
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HaSARD Risk Assessment Software can help an organisation to comply with health and safety law and the Management of the Health and Safety at Work Regulations 1999.
Employers have to take reasonable steps to ensure the Health and Safety and welfare of their employees at work.
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Failure to do so could result in a criminal prosecution in court.
Failure to ensure safe working practices could also lead to an employee suing for personal injury or in the worst case scenario the employer being prosecuted for corporate manslaughter.
The Management of Health and Safety at Work Regulations 1999 places an obligation on the employer to actively carry out a risk assessment of the workplace and act accordingly.
The assessment must be reviewed when necessary and recorded when there are five or more employees.
Safetyshop's HaSARD Risk Assessment Software is suitable for use in any type of organisation and has been developed in association with the British Standards Institute (BSI) - the national standards making body.
Flexible and easy to use the software starts with a built in tutorial to guide the user through the programme.
The programme is made up of nineteen pre-set surveys covering all the general areas of health and safety risk assessment including: first aid, fire, noise, electrical, staff facilities, personal protective equipment, trailing leads, mobile work equipment and manual handling.
As well as pre-set surveys the software also allows the user to create their own customised surveys.
The programme includes a context sensitive help file providing extensive reference information as well as recommending actions to take and prompts for responsibilities and completion dates.
The software records all the users findings giving evidence for compliance.
Summaries and action reports can be printed out for easy visible management.
The software is available with a twelve month update service to ensure that the software is kept up to date as and when legislation and regulations change.
The Signs and Labels mail order and online Safety Catalogue - Safetyshop, features a leading range of products to meet all your safety requirements and more.
All products are guaranteed to comply with the very latest Health and Safety Legislation.
All stock products have next day delivery as standard; 14 days no risk trial and one year guarantee. Request a free brochure from Signs and Labels ...
(This was Manufacturingtalk's Top Story on 17 November 2002).
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