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Specific health and safety hazards: physical and environmental

Updating author: Howard Fidderman

Brightmine editor: Laura Merrylees

Summary

This guide rounds up the measures needed to protect employees exposed to specific physical and environmental hazards. The guide covers: asbestos; construction work; coronavirus (COVID-19); electricity; fire; legionella; manual handling; noise; slips, trips and falls; substances hazardous to health; temperature; vibration; violence/aggression at work and work at height.