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How to Run a Successful Pub
Mark S. Elliott

This book offers advice on running a public house, including exhibiting the right image and tips on providing a good pub dining experience...

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1. Acknowledgements

2. All About You

3. What Kind Of Pub?

4. Finding The Right Pub

5. Funding The Business

6. Licensing Law

7. Planning For Success

8. Applying For A Tenancy Ornew Lease

9. Buying A Freehold Property

10. Professional Services

11. Business Structure

12. Opening A Bank Account

13. Arranging Insurance

14. Book-Keeping And Accounts

15. Marketing

16. Staff

17. Drinks

18. Pub Food

19. Amusement Machines

20. Complying With Other Regulations

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Complying With Other Regulations

 

Coshh Regulations

Background

Using chemicals or other hazardous substances at work can put people’s health at risk, so the law requires employers to control exposure to hazardous substances to prevent ill health or injury. COSHH (Control of Substances Hazardous to Health) regulations 2002 place duties on employers to protect employees and others from such hazards.

Hazardous Substances

Hazardous substances include:

  • Substances used directly in work activities, such as cleaning agents, adhesives and paints.
  • Substances generated during work activities, such as fumes.
  • Naturally occurring substances, such as dust.
  • Biological agents, such as bacteria and other micro-organisms.

Effects Of Hazardous Substances

The effects of hazardous substances include:

  • Being overcome by toxic fumes.
  • Skin irritation or dermatitis, as a result of skin contact.
  • Asthma, as a result of developing an allergy.
  • Cancer, after long-term exposure to certain chemicals.
  • Infection, from bacteria and other micro-organisms.

 

The implications for your business can be considerable, with lost productivity, possible prosecution and civil claims.

Complying With Coshh

To comply with COSHH you must follow an 8-step process:

Step 1Assess the risks:Assess the risks to health from hazardous substances used in, or created by your workplace activities.
Step 2Decide what precautions are needed:You must not carry out work which could expose your employees to hazardous substances without first considering the risks and the necessary precautions, and what else you must do to comply with COSHH.
Step 3Prevent or adequately control exposure:You must prevent your employees being exposed to hazardous substances. Where this is not reasonably practicable, then you must adequately control the exposure.
Step 4Ensure that control measures are used maintained:Ensure that control measures are used and maintained properly and that safety procedures are followed.
Step 5Monitor the exposure:Monitor the exposure of employees to hazardous substances, if necessary.
Step 6Carry out appropriate health surveillance:Carry out appropriate health surveillance where your assessment has shown this is necessary, or where COSHH sets specific requirements.
Step 7Prepare plans and procedures to deal with accidents, incidents and emergencies:Prepare plans and procedures to deal with accidents, incidents involving and emergencies hazardous substances, where necessary.
Step 8Ensure employees are properly trained, informed and supervised:You should provide your employees with suitable and sufficient training, information and instruction.


Riddor

Background

RIDDOR stands for the Reporting of Injuries, Diseases and Dangerous Occurrences Regulations 1995, which came into force on 1st April 1996. As an employer, you have duties under RIDDOR, which require you to report some work-related accidents, diseases and dangerous occurrences. The information is used by the Health and Safety Executive (HSE) and local authorities to identify where and how risks arise, and to investigate serious accidents.

What You Need To Report

  • Death or a major injury.
  • Over-three-day injury.
  • Disease.
  • Dangerous occurrence.

Death Or Major Injury

These include accidents connected with work, where an employee, or self-employed person working on your premises, is killed or suffers a major injury, or where a member of the public is killed or taken to hospital.

Examples of major injuries include:

  • Fractures other than to fingers, thumbs or toes.
  • Amputation.
  • Dislocation of shoulder, hip, knee or spine.
  • Loss of sight (temporary or permanent).
  • Injury resulting from an electric shock or burn leading to unconsciousness or requiring resuscitation.
  • Acute illness requiring medical treatment, or loss of consciousness arising from absorption of any substance by inhalation, ingestion or through the skin.

Over-3-Day Injury

If there is an accident or incident at your premises and you, an employee, or a self-employed person working at your premises, suffer an over-3-day injury, you must report this within 10 days.

An over-3-day injury is one which is not major but results in the person being away from work or unable to do their full range of duties for more than three days, (not counting the day of the injury itself).

Reportable Disease

Work-related diseases, classed as ‘reportable’ by a doctor must be reported using a ‘disease report form’ (F2508A). Examples of reportable diseases include:

  • Certain poisonings.
  • Some skin diseases such as occupational dermatitis and skin cancer.
  • Lung disease including occupational asthma and asbestosis.
  • Infections such as leptospirosis, hepatitis, tuberculosis and tetanus.