Before 1974 approximately 8 million employees had no legal sfety protection at work.
Everyone has a duty to comply with health and safety. including employers, employees, trainees, self employed, freelancers, manufactures, supplies, designers, & importers of work equipment.
EMPLOYERS RESPONSIBILITY.
The act places general duty to "ensure so far as is reasonably practical the health, safety, and welfare at work of all its employees."
The act states employers MUST:
* Provide and maintain safety equipment and safe systems of work.
* Ensure materials used are properly stored, handled, used and transported.
* Provide Information, training, instruction, and supervision. Ensure staff are aware of instructions provided by manufactures and suppliers of equipment.
* Provide a safe place of employment.
* Provide a safe working environment.
* Look after health and safety of others E.G. The general public.
* Talk to safety representatives.
EMPLOYEES RESPONSIBILITIES.
Employees have specific responsibilities too.
THEY MUST:
* Take care of their own health and safety and that of other persons. REMEMBER Employees maybe LIABLE!
* Co-operate with their employers.
* Must not interfere with anything provided in the interest of health and safety.
LINK:
WWW.RBKC.GOV.UK/ENVIRONMENTSERVICES/HEALTHANDSAFETY/HS_1974ACT.ASP6
1 comment:
A good addition to your blog on H&S and a very important one, dealing with the Law. Unfortunately the link at the bottom takes you to an error message that says the page may have been changed. It is the Royal Borough of Kensington & Chelsea's site. It may be better to put one in that goes straight to the original source e.g. the government.
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