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    This document provides advice for employers and managers on reducing health risks from sun exposure for outdoor workers. It recommends encouraging workers to cover up, seek shade, stay hydrated, and use sunscreen. It also suggests including sun safety in training, checking skin for changes, and consulting employees on new initiatives. Implementing these measures can result in fewer sunburns and absences, a healthier workforce, and lower skin cancer risk.

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    This document provides advice for employers and managers on reducing health risks from sun exposure for outdoor workers. It recommends encouraging workers to cover up, seek shade, stay hydrated, and use sunscreen. It also suggests including sun safety in training, checking skin for changes, and consulting employees on new initiatives. Implementing these measures can result in fewer sunburns and absences, a healthier workforce, and lower skin cancer risk.

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    Keep Your Top On INDG147 (Rev1) 1998 HSE Books, Also

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    Keep your top on INDG147(rev1) 1998 HSE Books, also

    available in priced packs of 20 ISBN 0 7176 1578 2. A


    leaflet on sun protection for outdoor workers.
    While every effort has been made to ensure the
    accuracy of the references listed in this publication,
    their future availability cannot be guaranteed.
    HSE priced and free publications are available by
    mail order from HSE Books, PO Box 1999, Sudbury,
    Suffolk CO10 2WA Tel: 01787 881165 Fax: 01787
    313995 Website: www.hsebooks.co.uk (HSE priced
    publications are also available from good booksellers.)
    For information about health and safety ring HSE's
    InfoLine Tel: 08701 545500 Fax:02920 859260
    e-mail: [email protected] or write
    to HSE Information Services, Caerphilly Business
    Park, Caerphilly CF83 3GG. You can also visit HSE’s
    website: www.hse.gov.uk
    This leaflet contains notes on good practice which
    are not compulsory but which you may find helpful
    in considering what you need to do.
    This leaflet is available in priced packs of 20 from
    HSE Books, ISBN 0 7176 1982 6. Single free copies
    are also available from HSE Books.
    This publication may be freely reproduced, except
    for advertising, endorsement or commercial
    purposes. The information is current at 04/01.
    Please acknowledge the source as HSE.

    INDG337 04/01 C2000


    Printed and published by the Health and Safety Executive
    If you are an employer or ● Encourage workers to take their breaks in the
    shade, if possible, rather than staying out in
    manager responsible for people the sun.
    whose work keeps them outside ● Consider scheduling work to minimise exposure.
    ● People with pale skin are most at risk of skin
    for most of the day, please read damage, especially those with fair or red hair, ● Site water points and rest areas in the shade.
    with a lot of freckles or with a family history
    this leaflet. It gives advice on of skin cancer. ● Encourage workers to drink plenty of water to
    reducing the health risks for ● People with brown or black skin are at low
    avoid dehydration.

    your employees when they are risk but people of all skin colours can suffer ● Keep your workers informed about the
    from overheating and dehydration. dangers of sun exposure - make use of the
    working in the sun. Health and Safety Executive (HSE) leaflet
    Keep your top on (see ‘Further information’).

    ● Encourage workers to check their skin regularly


    Exposure to ultraviolet (UV) for unusual spots or moles that change size, shape
    or colour and to seek medical advice promptly if
    radiation from the sun can cause ● Include sun protection advice in routine health they find anything that causes them concern.
    and safety training. Inform workers that a tan
    skin damage including sunburn, is not healthy - it is a sign that skin has Consulting your employees and their safety represen-
    blistering, skin ageing and in already been damaged by the sun. tatives is important. Take their views into account
    when introducing any new sun safety initiatives.
    the long term can lead to skin ● Encourage workers to keep covered up during
    the summer months - especially at lunch time
    cancer. Skin cancer is the most when the sun is at its hottest. They can cover
    common form of cancer in the up with a long-sleeved shirt, and a hat with a
    brim or flap that protects the ears and neck.
    UK, with over 40 000 new
    ● Encourage workers to use sunscreen of at least
    cases diagnosed each year. SPF (Sun Protection Factor) 15 on any part of the
    ● Fewer absence days through sunburn.
    body they can’t cover up and to apply it as directed ● A healthier and better-informed workforce.
    on the product. They might prefer to use a spray
    or an alcohol-based (non-greasy) sunscreen. ● Reduced risk to employees of skin cancer from
    UV radiation should be
    long-term sun exposure.

    considered an occupational
    hazard for people who work
    outdoors.

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