Safety of personal

Under the New Approach Member States shall not prohibit, restrict or impede the placing on the market or putting into service of products which comply with the directives and bear the CE-marking. Member States have also the obligation to take all appropriate measures to ensure that the products placed on the market do not endanger the health and safety of persons. 

Where a Member State ascertains tliat a product, bearing the CE-marking and used in accordance with its intended use, is liable to endanger the safety of persons or health, it shall take all appropriate measures to withdraw such a product from the market. That Member State shall immediately Inform the Commission which is obliged to investigate whether or not the measure is justified. Where the Commission considers that the measure is justified, it shall immediately inform the Member State which took the initiative and also the other Member States. This entails that the other Member States must also take action against the product concerned. That latter disposition is referred to as the safeguard clause. 

All work equipment must be eonstrueted or adapted to be suitable for its use, and its seleetion should have regard to the working eonditions and risks to health and safety of persons where it is used and any additional risks it poses (Provision and Use of Work Equipment 1998 Reg. 2). 

A substance which is listed in Part 1A of the approved list and which may create a risk to the health or safety of persons in the conditions encountered in conveyance by road, whether or not it has any of the characteristic properties set out above. Other dangerous substance y /f X x DANGEROUS X SUBSTANCE / / ... 

The purpose of incorporating a delay device in ammunition is (i) to cover the time of flight (ii) to provide safety of persons using the ammunition (iii) to ensure safety of carrier aircraft (iv) to ensure self-destruction and (v) to enhance post... 

Every laboratory should have a code of practice. This will usually identify the laboratory supervisor as the person responsible for the safety of persons within the laboratory. Therefore the laboratory supervisor will decide on such matters as to whether the ability, conduct and behaviour of persons within the laboratory is conducive to the maintenance of a safe environment there. Self discipline is expected, but if it is not evident then discipline has to be imposed. 

The purpose of safety guidelines is to provide for the safety of persons at a workplace or in the course of their employment or in connection with the use of machinery. 

Enforcement powers. Compliance with OELs is a legal requirement under the COSHH Regulations. Under the HSW Act 1974 HSE inspectors have powers to issue two types of enforcement notice - an improvement notice or a prohibition notice - as well as powers to prosecute for criminal offences in the courts. Improvement notices are nomally used to instruct duty holders to remedy a situation in which an inspector believes that there has been a breach of the law resulting in a risk to the health or safety of persons that the law is intended to protect. The duty-holder is normally requir to remedy tiie situation within a specified time period in accordance wath the requirements laid out in the notice. Prohibition notices are normally issued where inspectors fell there is m imminent and serious risk to health and safety. They have the effect of prohibiting... 

The member states and the Commission shall not disclose information obtained for the purposes of this directive, except for information relating to the safety properties of a given product that must be made public to protect the health and safety of persons. Parties concerned with a decision involving a product restriction may challenge any decision before the competent courts. 

In addition to the standards the manufacturer must check the essential requirements of the directives and take into account the generally acknowledged state of the art for EMC and safety. Products, machinery, and components must be designed and manufactured in such a way that, when used under the conditions and intended purposes, they will not compromise the health and safety of persons or the environment. In selecting the most appropriate design solutions, the manufacturer shall apply the following principles in order of preference ... 

The essential factors relating to electrical aspects of machines are to promote (1) safety of persons, property, and machine (2) consistency of control response and (3) ease of maintenance. 

This shall be done while considering the safety of persons and plant equipments. 

Every person who to any extent is responsible for, has control over or is engaged in a diving project or whose acts and omissions could adversely affect the health and safety of persons engaged in a such a project, shall take such measures as is reasonable for a person in his position to take to ensure that these regulations are complied with. 

The National Electrical Safety Code (NESC ) addresses the safety of persons and equipment during the installation, operation, or maintenance of electric supply and communication lines, and the associated equipment. The NESC contains the basic guidance considered necessary for the safety of both the installers and the general pubhc as a result of such installations. For example, the NESC contains information of the various environmental conditions that aerial cable plants may be exposed to in the different geographic regions of the U.S., which must be accounted for to ensure their survivability. 

An accident investigation should always be conducted as soon as possible after the event. It will be much easier if the investigator finds the situation at the scene of the accident exactly as it was when the accident took place. Consequently, after an accident, the site should be left undisturbed, unless changes have to be made to ensure the safety of persons or to prevent further damage. 

Emergency response Action to safeguard the health and safety of persons on or near the unit or installation. 

Identify the factors to be considered to ensure the health and safety of persons who are required to work on their own away from the workplace. 

Isolation - involves cutting off the electrical supply from all or a discrete section of the installation by separating the installation or section from every source of electrical energy. This is the normal practice so as to ensure the safety of persons working on or in the vicinity of electrical components which are normally live and where there is a risk of direct contact with live electricity. 

Risk means the risks to the safety of persons from fire. 

Safety means the safety of persons in the event of fire. 

In the transport of radioactive material the safety of persons, who are either members of the public or workers, is assured when these Regulations are complied with. Confidence in this regard is achieved through quality assurance and compliance assurance programmes. 

Regulation 21 lists small items of apparatus required for the safety of persons underground, which are approved for taking below ground. The intention is to prevent other non-essential equipment from being taken imderground in order to minimise the risk of ignition. 

Safety of operation In order to guarantee the safety of persons and goods. 

Occupiers having overall control of premises also have duties to ensure the safety of persons while on the premises, e.g. a council allowing organisations/persons to utilise council land (parks) for which they have overall control are responsible for all persons coming onto them, so far as is reasonably practicable. 

Foiiowing an investigation of the circumstances of the accident the HSE prosecuted the company invoived for faiiure to ensure the heaith and safety of persons not in their empioyment in that over a significant period of time, iocai chiidren used the car park as a piay area thereby exposing themseives to risks to their heaith and safety. 

Eugena Ltd pleaded guilty to a breach of duties under section 3(1) of the Health and Safety at Work Act etc. 1974, in that they failed, so far as was reasonably practicable, to ensure the health and safety of persons not in their employment. 

In addition to the requirements of the Health and Safety at Work Act, which require employers, the self-employed and those in control of premises to ensure that the safety of persons (in addition to those employed in the work undertaking) are not affected by work activities, there is specific legislation which controls environmental pollution. This legislation is broadly concerned with discharges of effluent into the atmosphere and the ground water systems. 

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