Safety precautions in carpentry shop Carpentry has been an age old art, extremely popular in the yester years as well today. It gives the best opportunity to any skilled wood worker. Carpenters pour their imagination and hard work to carve out a wonderful artwork or daily furniture. This improves the owner’s utility as well as the grandeur of the building and surrounding. This trade is also part of building work like a roof, floor, ship or boat work or construction work in all types of religious places like churches, temples etc. Though it is a male dominated area, it’s customers are varied from a low cost house owner to a long lasting King and his kingdom. Safety of each worker as well as the carpenter is always at risk as work relates to raw wood conversion to a beautiful article. They need to transport and use number of heavy as well as small tools like trolley, hammer, bench chisels, wood peckers, hand saw, hand drills, nails and so many. Any wrong handling may cause a serious damage to foot or palms of the workers. Nowadays, number of power driven machines are also part of their workshops where proper training plays an important role in safe working. Generally, these woodworkers are not always fully careful to use safety …show more content…
To incentivize added skills and experience to achieve best customer satisfaction, leading entrepreneurs and companies keep attractive options. Long term association is an added advantage. This trade is an age old but is always immoral as humans get attracted to sheer waves and beauty of wood products in their finish. Number of such jobs requiring the professional skill and safety norms are ample in thousands across UK for ambitious candidates. London, Belfast, Leicester, Edinburgh, Glasgow cities are to name a few to attract such skilled ones. Grand old villas, New palatial Hotels, Company headquarters are the base properties to host these skilled
The tools must be properly maintained and should be regularly checked by a qualified professional. The employer must ensure all staff are trained and know how to use all equipment and tools. Examples→ Clippers should only be used on hair. Scissors should be handled correctly. Hairdryer should only be used to dry hair.
Task 2 7 / C.P6: Compare the influence of different health and safety laws or policies on health and social care practice in a selected setting There are several different health and safety laws and policies that vary between settings in health and social care aimed towards different legislations that must be followed, and have resulted in improvements in health and social care practice. It is important that these legislations are followed by service providers in order for them to promote safe practice and to fully understand their responsibilities under these legislations. Some of the legislations include the Health and Safety at Work Act etc 1974, the Data Protection Act 1998, the Care Act 2014, the Care Standards Act 2000 and the Equality Act 2010.
Employers must make the workplace/premises safe, this includes keeping all materials and machinery stored safely and when used with caution.
1. Who could potentially be harmed if tools are not properly taken care of? the client can be harmed and yourself if you do not read and follow steps. 2. Explain the difference in how cast and forged shears are made.
All of these jobs come with a high chance of getting injured. According to the book, injuries can range from, deep cuts to death. Despite the fact employees are already suffering from their
Unsafe work practice that can affect the well-being of individuals include: Rough handling, for example pushing, pulling, dragging. Unsafe administration of medication, for example, failure to check dosage. Ignoring health needs and social needs such as clean clothing and personal hygiene. Visible injuries or marks of abuse on body and complaints not taken seriously can put them at more danger, harm and risk of abuse. I will ensure that I keep to all the procedures for checking for abuse and the wellbeing of the individuals that I work with; by following these and the individual’s care plan I keep within the minimum standards of care and also work in a person centred way to make sure all individuals are happy and safe.
HEALTH AND SAFETY IN THE WORKPLACE TASK 1.1: A few acts that would be applicable to an Engineering company that performs Sheet Metal Work and Fabrication and Welding could be: - Health and Safety at Work Act 1974 - Personal Protective Equipment at Work Regulations 1992 - Provision and Use of Work Equipment Regulations 1998 Health and Safety at Work Act 1974 This Act was made to secure the health, safety and welfare of people at work. It was also made to protect people other than people at work against the risk to health or safety from or in connection to what people do at work. The Health and Safety at Work Act 1974 was also used to control the use of explosive or flammable or otherwise dangerous substances and prevent having or acquiring
Children are often hired/employed to move between these dangerous machines as their size are small enough to
Any and all potentially hazardous substances must be identified, monitored and stored in line with COSHH regulations and company policy. Q6.1 Describe practices that prevent fires from starting and spreading. Practicing good fire prevention is essential to keeping a safe working environment, employers or building owners must carry out a fire safety risk assessment to identify potential sources of ignition or fuel that could cause a fire. Sources of ignition such as cookers or heaters must be turned off when left unattended or not in use, these appliances must also be kept in good working condition and have regular checks for example as PAT testing.
An electrical injury can be caused by touching live electrical parts, wearing wet clothing and not having proper repair work performed by qualified people. To avoid these injuries from electrical hazards, a welder should take the proper precautions such as reading all labels and instructions and inspecting equipment before proceeding to weld. Confined spaces are spaces with only one way in and one way out, such as pits, storage tanks, utility vaults, boilers and compartments on ships. Confined spaces are hazardous because if the entrance gets blocked or sealed there is no other fast safe way out and confined spaces have poor ventilation. To avoid being injured inside a confined space constantly ventilate and monitor that fumes are at safe exposure levels.
o Employers must ensure all work equipment is suitable for the intended use and is only used by employees, with the correct training. o Employers must follow manufacturer’s instructions. o Suitable health and safety measures should be put in place ( e.g. warning signs).
Major Business propositions for Woodmere and HomeHelp The business proposition for Woodmere in this case study is as follows. Woodmere would be able to secure an exclusive distribution with HomeHelp, which is a market leader in Home Decorating retail market, if it can implement time-based logistics. Woodmere’s prospective customer segment is heavily consolidated resulting in stiff competition.
For the company, it gets the raw materials like wood and wood fiber from its internal suppliers and other raw materials like metal from its external suppliers. At this stage, parties like IKEA Industry and IKEA’s external suppliers are involved. Since IKEA has to purchase materials from numerous suppliers, the company has 31 trading service offices in 26 countries so that new idea testing, production monitoring, quality checks and price negotiations can be carried out efficiently. This ensures that the material costs are at its lowest and at the same time, material comes in good
TASK 1.1 Importance of operation management Operations management (OM) is the business function responsible for managing the process of creation of goods and services. It involves planning, organizing, coordinating, and controlling all the resources needed to produce a company’s goods and services. Because operations management is a management function, it involves managing people, equipment, technology, information, and all the other resources needed in the production of goods and services. Operations management is the central core function of every company. This is true regardless of the size of the company, the industry it is in, whether it is manufacturing or service, or is for-profit or not-for-profit.
The Hotel Concept selected for this report is the new innovative hotel concept developed by YO founder Simon Woodroffe and YOTEL