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Guidance Notes

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Guidance Note 2: Safe Use of Access

This Guidance Note gives practical information about using access equipment.

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Guidance Note 3: Asbestos Awareness Training Requirements

This Guidance Note gives practical information about asbestos awareness training.

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Guidance Note 6: Control of Substances Hazardous to Health (COSHH)

This Guidance Note gives practical information about COSHH.

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Guidance Note 13: Health and Safety Policy and Management Systems

This Guidance Note gives practical information regarding basic health and safety policies and management systems as is targeted at SMEs with over five employees.

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Guidance Note 14: Isolation of power supplies

The Health and Safety at Work Act 1974 sets out the general health and safety duties of employers, employees and the self-employed.

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Guidance Note 19: Hot Work Permit Guidance Note

This Guidance Note gives practical information about hot work permits.

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Guidance Note 29: Selection and Assessment of Sub-Contractors Guidance Note

This Guidance Note is aimed at anyone who employs a contractor to carry out work on their behalf.

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Guidance Note 12: Permit to Work Systems

This Guidance Note gives practical information about permit to work systems.

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Guidance Note 15: Occupational Health

Every year in Britain alone, more than two million people experience symptoms of ill-health believed to have been caused or made worse by work and around 33 million working days are lost to illness.

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Guidance Note 28: Risk Assessment Guidance Note

This Guidance Note gives practical information about undertaking risk assessments in for work on client’s sites / construction sites.

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Guidance Note 5: Confined Spaces

This Guidance Note gives practical information about working in confined spaces.

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Guidance Note 7: Electrical Motor Replacement Method Statement

This Guidance Note gives practical information about creating a method statement.

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Guidance Note 9: Fire Alarm Installation Method Statement

This Guidance Note gives practical information about creating a method statement.

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Guidance Note 11: Gas Work Method Statement

This Guidance Note gives practical information about creating a method statement.

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Guidance Note 17: Health and Safety Training

This Guidance Note gives practical information about health and safety training.

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Guidance Note 20: Interior Refurbishment Method Statement

This Guidance Note gives practical information about creating a method statement.

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Guidance Note 22: Manual Handling Guidance Note

This Guidance Note gives practical information about reducing the risk from manual handling.

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Guidance Note 23: Plumbing Method Statement

This Guidance Note gives practical information about creating a method statement.

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Guidance Note 24: PPE Assessment Guidance Note

This Guidance Note includes an assessment template for determining which personal protective equipment (PPE) should be provided to your operatives.

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Guidance Note 25: Noise at Work Guidance Note

According to the 2008/09 Labour Force Survey (LFS), some 17,000 people in the UK suffer deafness, ringing in the ears or other ear conditions caused by excessive noise at work.

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Guidance Note 30: Tree Surgery Method Statement

This Guidance Note gives practical information about creating a method statement.

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Guidance Note 31: Vibration Guidance Note

This Guidance Note gives practical information about managing exposure to vibration.

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Guidance Note 32: Violence at Work Guidance Note

This Guidance Note gives practical information about managing violence at work.

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Guidance Note 35 – Work Equipment Guidance Note

This Guidance Note gives practical information about the safe use of work equipment.

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Guidance Note 36: High Pressure Water Jetting Guidance Note

The term High Pressure Water Jetting covers all water jetting processes, including those using additives, abrasives or chemicals where there is an energy input to increase the pressure applied to water.

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Guidance Note 37: Respiratory Disease Guidance Note

This Guidance Note gives practical information about respiratory disease.

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Guidance Note 38: Pressure Systems Safety Guidance Note

Modern pressure systems have a good safety record; however, they present particular hazards because pressure vessels can release large amounts of stored thermal and kinetic energy following leaks or explosion of gases, fluids, vapours or steam.

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Guidance Note 42: Environmental Policy and Management Systems Guidance Note

This Guidance Note gives practical information about creating an environmental policy.

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Guidance Note 43: Construction Phase Plan Guidance Note (December 2016)

This Guidance Note gives practical information about creating a construction phase plan for non-notifiable* small scale low risk projects to comply with CDM 2015.

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Guidance Note 44: Roof Installation Method Statement Guidance Note (March 2017)

This Guidance Note gives practical information about creating a method statement.

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Guidance Note 45: Quality Policy Statement (April 2019)

This guidance note contains a quality policy statement template. You may adapt the template to construct your own quality policy document.

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