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1.5.10 WELFARE AND PERSONAL PROTECTION
a. The Health and Safety at Work Act 1974 (United Kingdom) requires
every employee, while at work, to take reasonable care for the health
and safety of himself and of other persons who may be affected by his
acts or omissions at work. In this regard, personal and site safety and
hygiene are most important.
b. Adequate and suitable protective clothing should be provided for any person
employed who, due to the nature of his work, is required to continue working
in the open air during rain, snow, sleet or hail.
c. Adequate accommodation for personnel to take shelter during bad weather,
for the storage, drying and changing of clothing and for taking of meals
should be available. Such accommodation should include the facility for
boiling water, heating food and the provision of washing facilities to permit
personal hygiene. Personnel should be encouraged to wash before
partaking of food.
d. Washing and kitchen waste water should be discharged into a pit or sump
dug into the ground remote from ditches and water courses.
e. Empty tin cans, bottles, plastic containers, drums and scrap metal, wire rope
etc., should be placed in containers for transport to recognised waste
disposal sites.
f.
Suitably ventilated chemical toilets housed to provide privacy, should be
available. These should be regularly serviced and contents disposed of in
a
ccordance with manufacturer’s instructions. Personnel should be
encouraged to wash after using these facilities.
g. Potable/drinking water should be available and containers clearly marked as
such to distinguish from non-potable/non-drinkable water.
h. Oil saturated clothing is a fire risk, and also a health risk in that it irritates the
skin. They should be changed as soon as possible.
i.
Advice should be sought from the local water authority and their medical
officer of health prior to working in sewers or on waste disposal sites. When
working in these situations rubbing of the nose or mouth with the hands
should be avoided. On completion of the work, hands and forearms should
be thoroughly washed with soap and clean water with an added disinfectant.
Any clothing or boots that have become contaminated should be washed,
cleaned or disinfected. Any cut, scratch or abrasion should be cleaned,
treated with antiseptic and completely covered until quite healed.
j. The possibility of existing excavations transmitting bacteria carrying liquids
into a working area should not be overlooked.
k. It is advisable that drilling crews should receive regular anti-tetanus
injections, and always carry their anti-tetanus injection card with them.
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