A wide-ranging guide to health and safety aspects of the printing industry. It is aimed at both employers and employees. It outlines the more serious and frequent hazards in the industry and offers advice on how to deal with them. The book provides signposts to other sources of information and sets out the legal requirements affecting printing, providing practical advice on how to meet them.

Contents: Introduction; Chapter 1 Managing health and safety; Chapter 2 Training; Chapter 3 Workplace and transport safety; Chapter 4 Health risks; Chapter 5 Process safety; Chapter 6 Electricity; Chapter 7 fire and explosion; Chapter 8 Maintenance.