Health and Safety at Work Act 1974 is a law that places an obligation on all employers to ensure so far as is sensibly practicable, the well-being, security and welfare at work" of every one of their representatives or employees (lives, n.d.).
Risk Assessment is where the severity of the Hazard and its potential outcomes are considered in partnership with other factors likewise the level of exposure and the numbers of persons exposed and the risk of that hazard being realised (Authority, 2016).
A Hazard is a potential source of harm or has the potential to harm people (Authority, 2016).
This report will cover the duties of employers to their employees in accordance with health and safety at Work Act 1974, risk assessment, hazards, Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) Regulations 1992, The Manual Handling Operations Regulations 1992, Work at …show more content…
Secondly, provision and maintenance of plant and systems of work that are, so far as is reasonably practicable, safe and without risks to health
• Arrangements for ensuring, so far as is sensibly practicable, safety and absence of risks to health in connection with the use, handling, storage and transport of articles and substances.
• Enough provision of information related to working environment, instruction, training and supervision as it is mandatory to ensure reasonably practicable of health and safety at work of its employees.
• Reasonably practicable as respects wherever of work under the employers' control, the support of it in a condition that is safe and without dangers to well-being and the procurement and maintenance of means of access to and exit from it that are safe and without such dangers
Third, employers have to prepare and as often as may be appropriate revise a written statement of his general policy with respect to the health and safety at work of his
Risk Assessment is where the severity of the Hazard and its potential outcomes are considered in partnership with other factors likewise the level of exposure and the numbers of persons exposed and the risk of that hazard being realised (Authority, 2016).
A Hazard is a potential source of harm or has the potential to harm people (Authority, 2016).
This report will cover the duties of employers to their employees in accordance with health and safety at Work Act 1974, risk assessment, hazards, Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) Regulations 1992, The Manual Handling Operations Regulations 1992, Work at …show more content…
Secondly, provision and maintenance of plant and systems of work that are, so far as is reasonably practicable, safe and without risks to health
• Arrangements for ensuring, so far as is sensibly practicable, safety and absence of risks to health in connection with the use, handling, storage and transport of articles and substances.
• Enough provision of information related to working environment, instruction, training and supervision as it is mandatory to ensure reasonably practicable of health and safety at work of its employees.
• Reasonably practicable as respects wherever of work under the employers' control, the support of it in a condition that is safe and without dangers to well-being and the procurement and maintenance of means of access to and exit from it that are safe and without such dangers
Third, employers have to prepare and as often as may be appropriate revise a written statement of his general policy with respect to the health and safety at work of his