The Smooth Guide to Photography
              How to get started ...
  • Basic Camera Equipment
    • Standard Camera Lenses
    • Equipment and Materials
    • Etiquette
    • Camera Care
    • Picture Elements
  • Health and Safety
    • Responsibilities
    • What the Law Requires
    • Safety in Photography
    • Safety in the Darkroom, Processing Room + Studio
    • First Aid
  • Film
    • Shutter Speeds
    • Aperture
    • Exposure
    • Lighting Conditions
    • Film Processing
  • Black + White Film
    • Developing Times
    • Processing
    • Tank, Spiral + Core
    • In the Darkroom
    • Printing Papers
    • Exposure for Multigrade Paper
    • Assessing Negatives
    • Printing Film
    • Making a Contact Sheet
    • Making a Test Strip
    • Processing the Print
    • Using the Enlarger
    • Film Cropping
    • Burn-In and Dodging
    • Photograms
  • Technical Term Glossary
    • A
    • B
    • C
    • D
    • E
    • F
    • G - H - I
    • L
    • M - N - O
    • P - R
    • S
    • T - U - V - W
HEALTH AND SAFETY AT WORK 1974
Picture
The Health and Safety at Work Act 1974 is intended to provide for the health and safety of all employees, as well as the self-employed and the public.  However, this Act does not cover domestic workers in private employment.  The regulations apply to work activities and to specific hazard areas in any industry.
The objectives of the Act are:
  • To secure the health, safety and welfare of all people at work
  • To reduce risks at work - ideally to zero
  • To protect others from the risks arising from workplace activities
  • Those at risk receive particular and appropriate protection
  • To control the obtaining, keeping and use of explosives or highly inflammable substances
  • Standards are improved as a core management task
  • Standards conform across the EU and across all sectors, size and location of employment
Ignoring a statutory notice is a serious matter.  The person concerned can be prosecuted and fined.

Adequate warnings of risk, as well as clear and visible sign-posting, is important.  Defective lifts, slippery floors, broken windows and loose handles on doors should carry warning notices.  Viable options must also be provided - requiring people to jump over holes in floors, or to climb a steep slope because steps are broken, would inevitably create new risks.
SAFETY SIGNS should always:
  • Clearly identify the hazard
  • Make plain how to avoid or minimise risk
  • Allow for the characteristics of the group of people affected - i.e: age, language, etc.
The law takes the view that putting up notices doe not relieve a responsibility.  It merely indicates that some steps have to be taken.

It is important to note that signs are colour coded:
YELLOW
_____________________
RED
_____________________
BLUE
_____________________
GREEN
_____________________
HAZARD
____________________________________________
PROHIBITED
____________________________________________
RECOMMENDATION TO BE SAFE - ie: WEAR HARD HAT
____________________________________________
ESCAPE/SAFETY PROCEDURES - eg: FOR FIRE
____________________________________________​
ACCESSIBILITY AND FONT ADJUSTMENT
SITE MAP
Acknowledgement:  
Tutor:  Peter Perry

These notes are an accumulation of those written by myself - or obtained from the College during the course.
  • Putney Public Library
  • Wandsworth Reference Library
  • Earlsfield Library

​This is not a commercial site.
Polly Healy  - Course Work :  2000
SOUTH THAMES COLLEGE,  LONDON, SW18 2PP
______________________________________________________
Copyright:  THE SMOOTH GUIDE TO PHOTOGRAPHY - How to get started ...
[email protected]
_____________________________________________________
                        See other Smooth Guide sites:
www.animalsandenglish.com
www.englishlanguagetips.com
www.smoothguide-mahjong.com
www.smoothguide-internetfundamentals.com
www.smoothguide-kenyacoast.com
www.healyshandyhouseholdhints.com
www.smoothguide-sunbury.com
  • Basic Camera Equipment
    • Standard Camera Lenses
    • Equipment and Materials
    • Etiquette
    • Camera Care
    • Picture Elements
  • Health and Safety
    • Responsibilities
    • What the Law Requires
    • Safety in Photography
    • Safety in the Darkroom, Processing Room + Studio
    • First Aid
  • Film
    • Shutter Speeds
    • Aperture
    • Exposure
    • Lighting Conditions
    • Film Processing
  • Black + White Film
    • Developing Times
    • Processing
    • Tank, Spiral + Core
    • In the Darkroom
    • Printing Papers
    • Exposure for Multigrade Paper
    • Assessing Negatives
    • Printing Film
    • Making a Contact Sheet
    • Making a Test Strip
    • Processing the Print
    • Using the Enlarger
    • Film Cropping
    • Burn-In and Dodging
    • Photograms
  • Technical Term Glossary
    • A
    • B
    • C
    • D
    • E
    • F
    • G - H - I
    • L
    • M - N - O
    • P - R
    • S
    • T - U - V - W