Health and Safety for Grounds Management

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An event that results in injury or ill health.

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If you have an accident at work you must report it as soon as possible. A work-related injury should be recorded in an appropriate accident book, such as the HSE 'Accident Book BI 510'.

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An event which can include:
• An accident;
• An incident;
• A dangerous occurrence (i.e. a reportable incident).

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Often, an adverse event will be the consequence of a sequence of errors or failures.

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There are numerous consequences of an adverse event, and these can be

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Once an employer has been notified of an adverse event and been given basic information on what happened, they must decide whether it should be investigated and to what depth.

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An area of land that is between land that is often intensively maintained and an area that needs protecting and is at higher risk of contamination, damage or harm from maintenance activities if the buffer zone did not exist.

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A distance and area that separates a feature, property, people, or animals, from an operative carrying out grounds maintenance work, especially whilst they are using machinery.

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These are industry specific documents which offer guidance on good working practice. If the Health and Safety Executive has not produced an Approved Code of Practice, then an industry code of practice would be a reasonable approach to follow.

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