General Industry Safety Basics

Everyone plays an important part in workplace safety. This handbook will assist incarrying out work activities more safely through an understanding of the relationshipbetween the task and methods to protect the health and well being of the worker. It willprovide an understanding of the rules, regulations and basic principles behind thosehealth and safety issues to which a worker may be directly involved or exposed to in theworkplace. General Industry Safety Basics focuses on good practice and is notintended as a complete or authoritative guide to the law. Employers, managers andemployees will require further information.