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introduction/how to use this guide: 1<br />
Introduction<br />
This guide is one element of a package of resources that encourages the sharing of health<br />
and safety knowledge across the quarrying and quarry products industry. It contains many<br />
ideas and innovations to <strong>com</strong>e from the Quarry Products Association’s annual Health & Safety<br />
Best Practice Awards scheme over the past eight years.<br />
The other key resource – a website at www.safequarry.<strong>com</strong> – will be available from summer<br />
2006. It is a sister site to the University of Leeds’ www.goodquarry.<strong>com</strong> and will contain a<br />
fuller selection of entries from the Health & Safety Best Practice Awards and will be updated<br />
with new entries to the scheme in the <strong>com</strong>ing years. It will also feature a database of incident<br />
alerts, toolbox talks and the latest on the industry’s hot topics.<br />
The resources are ideal for training purposes and for Continuing Professional Development<br />
(CPD). We hope that <strong>com</strong>panies of all sizes will find them useful and accessible.<br />
How to use this guide<br />
This guide is a <strong>com</strong>pilation of solutions that <strong>com</strong>panies have applied to minimise and, where<br />
possible, eliminate health and safety risks arising from their daily operations. The ideas<br />
and innovative approaches are often very simple and could readily be applied to a range of<br />
<strong>com</strong>mon industry problems.<br />
It is hoped that, by reviewing this guide, particularly those sections relating to your main area<br />
of work, you will recognise solutions that could be applied within your own workplace or they<br />
will generate an idea for an alternative solution.<br />
The guide has been divided into nine sections that reflect the most <strong>com</strong>mon areas or<br />
activities requiring particular health and safety consideration. At the beginning of each<br />
section, you will find a summary of the information contained, as well as some facts, figures<br />
and quotes from key figures in the industry. Each section contains entries from the 2005 QPA<br />
Health & Safety Best Practice Awards, as well as those from previous years of the scheme,<br />
which were selected by a group of representatives from aggregate <strong>com</strong>panies of varying<br />
sizes. The chosen entries were deemed still to be relevant examples of strong health and<br />
safety practice. Many have now been widely adopted across the industry.<br />
We have indicated which entries were prize winners, and which have video clips available.<br />
These are accessible on the DVD which you will find in the inside back cover of this document,<br />
or via the safequarry website. To help you locate entries relating to a certain subject, we have<br />
provided a keyword index. You can also search for entries by product type, such as concrete or<br />
asphalt. We wel<strong>com</strong>e your feedback – either via the cards at the back of this document, or the<br />
safequarry website. Your involvement is crucial in making this initiative work and helping the<br />
industry to achieve its ultimate target of zero incidents.