 Quick! Enquire! You might be first! Safer cleaners: DVDs in many languages
February 29th 2008 English isn't the first language of a substantial proportion of the estimated one million cleaners in the UK.
In 2005/06 there were approximately 3,500 work related accidents to cleaners reported to the HSE and local authorities, with over 20 per cent classified as major injuries. The actual number (as many may not have been reported) could be far higher, making proper training for cleaners essential.
A recent Asset Skills survey found that 37% of employees working within cleaning companies were migrant workers, and the figure is increasing since the accession of Eastern European countries into the EU.
With this in mind, Safety Media has launched Health & Safety for Cleaners, the newest addition to its range of Multi-Lingual DVDs, to give advice on avoiding injury to cleaners in their own languages.
The DVD will train your cleaners in a choice of 20 different subtitled languages including English, and so is ideal for any company with workers who are not native English speakers. It follows a cleaner through their working day and demonstrates the possible hazards they could face in the course of their job.
The DVD covers:
Appropriate work wear and personal protective equipment
Ongoing dynamic risk assessments
How to avoid repetitive strain injuries
How to lift correctly
Safe use of chemical substances
Push rather than pull
Tripping hazards
Hand arm vibration
It is available in the following subtitled languages:
Albanian
Bengali
Chinese
Czech
English
French
German
Gujarati
Hindi
Italian
Kurdish
Polish
Portuguese
Punjabi
Russian
Spanish
Tamil
Turkish
Urdu
Welsh
The pack comes complete with 50 Risk Assessment forms and 10 Health & Safety for Cleaners Training Booklets.
For further information, just  click here. The first Cleaning Matters reader to enquire will receive a FREE copy worth £199! More articles from Safety Media Limited: | 
