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Unit 27- understanding health and safety in the business workplace
P1/M1
Hello I am Sophie-Louise Atkinson I am a receptionist at York College and in this report I will be telling you about legislation and regulations on health, safety and security, all these will impact on the job role of a receptionist.
Health and safety in the workplace is very important because it ensures that the employees are working effectively with being hit with danger, one of the major legislations is the health and safety at work act 1974, and this is an enabling act which means that you can add other legislations to it.
Health and safety at work act 1974:
This act aims to protect employees and everything around them, this act makes sure there is no danger anywhere in the working place, but if there is some sort of danger you have to sort it out straight away because it could possible end with someone having a broken bone in their body.
Being a receptionist means you have to be extra careful about wires that run along the floor from the computers you need to make sure that there is no lose wires anywhere or someone may trip and fall over and badly injure themselves so it is very important to keep them out of the way, a way you could do this is taping the wires at the very back of the desk so you definitely know that they will not get in the way anymore, a receptionist needs their space for all the paper work that will be coming from students, teachers and suppliers, If there was no space then the reception would be a mess and unorganised and you may lose something really important, also if the working space is small it means that it is a crowed environment and you will be un able to work properly so the performance on your work will not be very good, but most of the time you will have enough space to hopefully keep organised.
The Management of Health and Safety at Work Regulations 1999:
This act looks over all potential risks, this is called a risk assessment. Every
P1/M1
Hello I am Sophie-Louise Atkinson I am a receptionist at York College and in this report I will be telling you about legislation and regulations on health, safety and security, all these will impact on the job role of a receptionist.
Health and safety in the workplace is very important because it ensures that the employees are working effectively with being hit with danger, one of the major legislations is the health and safety at work act 1974, and this is an enabling act which means that you can add other legislations to it.
Health and safety at work act 1974:
This act aims to protect employees and everything around them, this act makes sure there is no danger anywhere in the working place, but if there is some sort of danger you have to sort it out straight away because it could possible end with someone having a broken bone in their body.
Being a receptionist means you have to be extra careful about wires that run along the floor from the computers you need to make sure that there is no lose wires anywhere or someone may trip and fall over and badly injure themselves so it is very important to keep them out of the way, a way you could do this is taping the wires at the very back of the desk so you definitely know that they will not get in the way anymore, a receptionist needs their space for all the paper work that will be coming from students, teachers and suppliers, If there was no space then the reception would be a mess and unorganised and you may lose something really important, also if the working space is small it means that it is a crowed environment and you will be un able to work properly so the performance on your work will not be very good, but most of the time you will have enough space to hopefully keep organised.
The Management of Health and Safety at Work Regulations 1999:
This act looks over all potential risks, this is called a risk assessment. Every