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Unit 4 AO3

Define and identify common work-related hazards and risks in two contrasting

public services suggesting ways that they could be minimised.

Introduction

In this AO I am going to look at two contrasting public services and examine

the hazards and risks involved in the job and how to minimize those risks by

looking at the training and the health and safety equipment in the job. For

example if you are in the army you need training to learn how to deal with

every situation involved in the job and by having that training you will have the

knowledge to deal with the situation and overcome the risks and hazards. The

two contrasting public services I am going to be looking at is the army and the

police service both of these public services are totally different but they can

have the same hazards and risks involved in the job for example in the army

you are more likely to have a casualty but in the police force you can still get

hurt or wounded on the job.

Risks and hazards within the police force

Risks in the police force on a motor vehicle pursuit- one of the most dangerous

risk in a motor vehicle pursuit is putting a member of public in risk, when you

are driving in a built up area you have to drive fast to keep up with the personyou are chasing but you need to be careful at the same time because its one

of the most dangerous thing you could do by driving round the public and you

need to be a very experienced driver by having the knowledge of driving and

the way the police force could minimize the hazards risks in this part of the job

is by training the police in an experienced driving course and you could learn

the correct techniques in how to turn a car off the road.

Another risk in the police force is in the riot squad because the amount of 

people protesting can outnumber the police so

it is important you know your training on how

to control the group of people because if you

dont know your training you could hurt your

team mate or one of the protestors and for it to

be a successful riot you need to know you

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training and work as a team with the other officer and a good way how to

minimize the risks and have a successful riot is by making the team of the riot

squad to go on a team building day because if you dont have good team work

within the riot squad youre not going to have much successful riots.

Risks and hazards in the army

There are so many dangers and obstacles that the Drivers face in the army.

The improvised explosive device (IED) threat and insurgents are the main ones

but the locals and even the terrain make things very difficult as well. We have

to take Tank Transporters on the CLPs and they are so big that they get bogged

in all the time which creates further problems as the drivers have to get out of 

our vehicles to help recover them. Sometimes it can take a whole day just to

move 8km or so.

Another risk in the army is learning how to deal with a casualty because if you

are in a situation where you are

under attack and one of the other

soldiers are hurt you need to think

of a plan where you know that you

can get that person to safety as well

as holding off the attack because if 

you are not trained enough to dothat you can put the whole lives of 

you group and the injured person in

risk so before you can handler a

group of soldiers you need to know

your training.