Noise is part of everyday life, but loud noise can permanently damage your hearing. Conversation becomes difficult or impossible, your family complains about the television being too loud and you have trouble using the telephone.
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INDG363 - Protect your hearing or lose it! - Polish translation
Tuesday, July 25, 2006
INDG404 - Drive away bad backs - Advice for mobile machine operators and drivers - Translated into Polish
Tuesday, July 25, 2006
Mobile machine operators and drivers often report back pain. This can have many causes, not all related to work. But back pain may be made worse by driving for a long time in a poorly adjusted seat, jolting and jarring from rough roads (whole-body vibration) and by manual handling. Translated into Polish.
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INDG405 - Top tips for ladder and stepladder safety - Polish language translation
Tuesday, July 25, 2006
Pocket card offering health and safety tips on ladder and stepladder use. Translated into Polish.
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INDG143 - Getting to grips with manual handling: A short guide - Polish translation
Tuesday, July 25, 2006
This booklet explains the problems associated with manual handling and sets out best practice in dealing with them. Translated into Polish.
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Health and Safety Law: What you should know - Polish translation
Monday, July 24, 2006
Your health, safety and welfare at work are protected by law. Translated into Polish.
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Prevention of heat illness in mines - web13
Thursday, July 13, 2006
This guidance represents what is considered to be good practice by members of the Mining Industry Committee, and was prepared by their Occupational Health in Mines sub-committee.
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Five steps to risk assessment leaflet (INDG163) revised
Thursday, July 13, 2006
The law does not expect you to eliminate all risk, but you are required to protect people as far as ‘reasonably practicable’. This guide tells you how to achieve that with a minimum of fuss. Helping you assess health and safety risks in the workplace.
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AFAG 704 Excavators in tree work
Thursday, July 13, 2006
This leaflet covers the safe working practices to be followed when operating tracked 360 degree excavators and walking excavators in forestry and other tree work. For guidance on specific operations involving excavator base units see AFAG leaflets 204 Flails and mulchers in tree work, 504 Extraction by cable crane, 603 Mechanical harvesting, and 605 Mechanical roadside [...]
AFAG 204 Flails and mulchers in tree work
Thursday, July 13, 2006
This leaflet covers the safe working practices to be followed when operating front-, rear- or arm-mounted flails and mulchers in forestry and other tree work. The flail or mulcher may be part of a purposebuilt machine or mounted on and powered by a tractor, excavator or other suitable base vehicle.
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Work-related deaths: a protocol for liaison - MISC733
Wednesday, July 12, 2006
This protocol has been developed through the representative bodies to emphasise the importance of working together to investigate thoroughly work-related deaths in Scotland, and where appropriate, to prosecute.
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AS23(rev3) - Manual handling solutions - Leaflet
Monday, July 10, 2006
Back, neck and limb disorders are the most common types of ill health in agriculture. Many of these disorders are related to manual handling tasks. This leaflet describes the causes of manual handling health problems, explains how to assess the risk, outlines steps that can be taken to reduce the risk of injury and preparations [...]
INDG125(rev1) - Handling and stacking bales in agriculture - Leaflet
Monday, July 10, 2006
This leaflet offers practical safety advice to all those involved in the handling and transporting of baled fodder and straw. It deals with the collection, loading, transporting and stacking of conventional bales, round bales and big/high-density bales.
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Safe use of site dumpers: Construction site transport safety - CIS52
Monday, July 10, 2006
This information sheet outlines the precautions necessary to ensure the safe use of forward tipping dumpers (commonly known as site dumpers) in the construction industry. It is aimed at managers and drivers and all those who influence the use of site dumpers.
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Using electric storage batteries safely - indg139(rev1)
Wednesday, June 28, 2006
Every year, at least 25 people are seriously injured when using batteries at work. If you or your staff work with large batteries, this booklet is for you. It gives a basic introduction to working safely with batteries and minimising the risks involved.
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