Health and Safety for Beginners (HSfB)

Also, if you have any flammable liquids/gases, then you also need a DSEAR risk assessment. See HSG140 for more information.

Posting a link to the MSDS might help someone explain specific sections more clearly.

This is a bit of a grey area and has come up many many times in the past. In the end, I found it easier to do an assessment for everything. It doesnt take long and it only takes one inspector with a pole up ...

Thanks for your views. When my membership is up this year I think I'll jump ship to IIRSM.

I received the new IOSH Certified Member certificate yesterday, and have to say that I feel I've been demoted. Graduate indicates that a professional qualification such as a Level 6 Diploma or Degree is held. Certified sounds like I now hold a low level certificate such as the NEBOSH National ...

The client I was assessing shot blast wooden signs with garnet so I have identified a wood dust combustible and explosible hazard and recommended appropriate control measures.

Dave S wrote: Wed Nov 15, 2023 11:33 am this may help???

https://www.dguv.de/ifa/forschung/proje ... de+d102592

Great article - thanks very much.

Or don't bother pursuing a higher qualification and gain a few years' experience, then take IOSH's Experiential route to the membership level of your choice i.e., CMIOSH (assuming your going for IOSH membership).

Good morning,

Could anyone recommend a good quality Fire Risk Assessor course (Level 3 or above) please?

Thanks, Ian

Feel free to PM me your email address and I can share BRE Academy DSEAR Course Notes. Good course that my company sent me on last year. I think it was about £700 for a 3 day course. Tutor was a chap called Steve Manchester, who pretty much wrote the book on DSEAR.

Just wondering if anyone else does DSEAR Risk Assessments and do the gas calculations manually/via excel?
My company won't purchase Quadvent or Hazcalc so I have to do gas calculations long hand or via a spreadsheet.
I'm hoping someone here has some experience of calculating release rates to define ...

That's fine - it's just a record to show the pre-use check has been completed.

Good morning shi-g.
Welcome to the forum.
Here's the requirement from HSE:
Thorough examination of industrial lift trucks is required under health and safety law: LOLER 1998, which covers lifting equipment, and PUWER 1998, which deals with all other safety-related items, such as brakes, steering and ...