Health and Safety for Grounds Management

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A detailed step by step guide which can either be considered the same as a Safe Working Practice document, or it can be considered as a component part of the safe working practice document by focusing on one particular feature of the identified activity.

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An area that has been designated as safe to work in.

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The minimum distance that should be maintained between a hazard and a worker.

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This can mean either the maximum load which can be safely lifted by lifting equipment or the maximum load a van / lorry can carry where it is uniformly distributed.

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Documented guidelines and working methods which identifies how a task or tasks can be carried out with minimum risk to a worker (thereby including a risk assessment), bystanders and others, or features in their working environment, for example, buildings, cars, etc.

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A designated area that primarily aims to keep people safe from being harmed or injured from work activities.

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A designated area used to protect workers from a hazard, such as passing vehicles on a road, which may be required when mowing, or maintaining, roadside verges.

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This is defined in the Health and Safety (Safety Signs and Signals) Regulations 1996 as “a sign which provides information or instructions by a combination of geometric shape, colour and a symbol or pictogram and which is rendered visible by lighting of sufficient intensity;” .

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A detailed step by step guide for the carrying out of a range of activities.

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A graphic which helps to convey relevant information quickly and succinctly.

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