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Posted By Helen Edginton
Afternoon
My remit has been expanded to cover our warehouse and office in Hungary. Can anyone point me in the direction of the specifics required?
Thanks in advance.
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Posted By MAK Hi, I googled this and found the following link: http://www.gla.ac.uk/ecohse/ohs.htmlthe link appears to offer an overview of occupational H&S issues and a briefing PDF per country, Hungary included. It may not be what your looking for but maybe it'll be a start. Mak
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Posted By David Bannister
Hi Helen. No specific info, other than a little experience: During 1990's I was part of a global audit team that visited a newly aquired (but old) chemical plant in Hungary. Participants were UK, USA and Hungarian. We decided to take a common sense approach: What hazards were there (plenty), how bad were they (bl***y awful) and how likely to cause harm.... I'm sure you can fill in the rest. Whilst we had initial local resistance to this approach, once we had explained what we were doing, and why, we managed to convince the local plant management to accept our audit findings and implement improvements (US dollars to assist capital investment helped too!)
My point is that H&S has common themes, regardless of local laws and practices and competent professionals can apply good sense wherever they may be. Use your experience and knowledge, apply the principles we have learned and finally, ask a local for specific legal input.
You may encounter the "our laws do not require this" response but perservere. Good luck.
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Posted By Richard Altoft
I did audits in Hungary a few years ago and several things struck me
Talk to your local equivalent and be open minded - they often have a lot to offer once they know you are interested in listening
Interpreters can make a mess of the simpliest request if they dont understand the topic area (they kill a good joke stone dead)
There existed a service much like Croners for technical information and possibly safety information that produced discs in German.English and Hungarian.
Much of their safety legislation is in their technical codes just like ours often was for such things as machine guarding where British Standards set the requirements
Get across there and talk face to face as soon as you can, great country and helpful people
Best of luck
R
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Posted By Helen Edginton
Thanks everyone - wish me luck!
Helen
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Posted By Richard Altoft
Helen,
I missed the best tip.
If you come home out of Budapest airport and if it is still there then try the chocolate stall - I always tipped all my hungarian money on the counter as I left and converted it into bags of looose sweets to bring home, I never knew the exact exchange rate but it was very very good. Best of luck
R
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