Welcome to this part of your ADIS course. It has 9 chapters or ‘elements’: contains an explanation of six physical and psychological health hazards: noise, vibration, radiation, mental ill health, work-related violence and substance abuse. • It also deals with musculoskeletal health and covers the topics of work-related upper limb disorders, manual handling and mechanical load-handling equipment. • It also deals with chemical and biological agents. and contains an explanation of a wide range of general workplace issues such as welfare provision, working at height, confined space entry, lone working, slips and trips, safe movement of pedestrians and vehicles in the workplace, and work-related driving. • It focuses on work equipment and the hazards and control measures associated with simple hand tools, power tools and machinery. • In this chapter there is a fire safety topics and covers basic fire prevention, the control of fire spread, fire alarm systems and fire evacuation. • It deals with the hazards and risks of electricity, and typical workplace control measures. The common theme that runs through these elements is that they deal with specific hazards or hazard groups and the practical control of the risks created by these hazards.

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