Statutory duties of employers and employees
In previous years, health and safety in the work environment was particularly the business' obligation. Nowadays, the employees have managed to gain more and more rights, as well as responsibilities, and the target is that the existing health and safety emphasis on everyone’s wellbeing, employees and employers alike, in the workplace. Employers, and businesses in general, have many different responsibilities towards their workers.
There are certain statutory duties of employers and employees relating to health, safety and welfare that Tesco has to follow, which was created with an aim to make the employers provide things like maintenance, training and supervision, all having to do with the health …show more content…
Tesco’s Health and Safety Act is focused on the safety of their employees and customers. This enables the employees at Tesco to feel safe and comfortable at their workplace, not only with that but with the equipment that they use by providing them with uniforms, etc. Tesco in order to be in check with the Health and Safety Act, sets different procedures, like training their employees in health and safety related training, and they have to keep doing this with the new employees as well. By having poor health and safety performance, Tesco is losing money from lawsuits and fines, time, personnel that go on strike, personnel that quit working there. On the other hand, if Tesco is doing well at the risk assessments and follows the health and safety regulations, then the employees will be more motivated knowing that they are safe, they will be less absent because of sicknesses, etc., less to no accidents and it saves money. However, Tesco have one of the worst hygiene’s after having failed 29 inspections by the FSA. If Tesco has not complied with the safety duties of the act, then a customer or an employee has the right to pursue a legal claim if they have breached the statutory …show more content…
The Workplace (Health, Safety and Welfare) Regulations replaced past legislation that only applied to factories or offices and introduced things like windows and rest facilities (in particular dealing with provisions for non-smokers and pregnant and nursing mothers). Tesco must have the capacity to at least provide their employees a decent workplace to work in. Tesco must have sufficient air circulation throughout to avoid being too hot in summer or too cold in winter, and in order to achieve this, Tesco should install a heating system and an air conditioning system, respectively. Moreover, the lighting should be fully working, especially in the storage room, so that the employees can see where they are going and to be able to work, without enough lighting, there could be many incidents of accidents and it would be deemed as unsuitable. Tesco also has toilets for both staff members and customers to use, so therefore, they should be kept as clean and tidy as hygiene standards are supposed to be. In tilts, Tesco must ensure that there are suitable workstations to use to be able to work effectively and safely, since standing for so many hours can have a strain in their
In previous years, health and safety in the work environment was particularly the business' obligation. Nowadays, the employees have managed to gain more and more rights, as well as responsibilities, and the target is that the existing health and safety emphasis on everyone’s wellbeing, employees and employers alike, in the workplace. Employers, and businesses in general, have many different responsibilities towards their workers.
There are certain statutory duties of employers and employees relating to health, safety and welfare that Tesco has to follow, which was created with an aim to make the employers provide things like maintenance, training and supervision, all having to do with the health …show more content…
Tesco’s Health and Safety Act is focused on the safety of their employees and customers. This enables the employees at Tesco to feel safe and comfortable at their workplace, not only with that but with the equipment that they use by providing them with uniforms, etc. Tesco in order to be in check with the Health and Safety Act, sets different procedures, like training their employees in health and safety related training, and they have to keep doing this with the new employees as well. By having poor health and safety performance, Tesco is losing money from lawsuits and fines, time, personnel that go on strike, personnel that quit working there. On the other hand, if Tesco is doing well at the risk assessments and follows the health and safety regulations, then the employees will be more motivated knowing that they are safe, they will be less absent because of sicknesses, etc., less to no accidents and it saves money. However, Tesco have one of the worst hygiene’s after having failed 29 inspections by the FSA. If Tesco has not complied with the safety duties of the act, then a customer or an employee has the right to pursue a legal claim if they have breached the statutory …show more content…
The Workplace (Health, Safety and Welfare) Regulations replaced past legislation that only applied to factories or offices and introduced things like windows and rest facilities (in particular dealing with provisions for non-smokers and pregnant and nursing mothers). Tesco must have the capacity to at least provide their employees a decent workplace to work in. Tesco must have sufficient air circulation throughout to avoid being too hot in summer or too cold in winter, and in order to achieve this, Tesco should install a heating system and an air conditioning system, respectively. Moreover, the lighting should be fully working, especially in the storage room, so that the employees can see where they are going and to be able to work, without enough lighting, there could be many incidents of accidents and it would be deemed as unsuitable. Tesco also has toilets for both staff members and customers to use, so therefore, they should be kept as clean and tidy as hygiene standards are supposed to be. In tilts, Tesco must ensure that there are suitable workstations to use to be able to work effectively and safely, since standing for so many hours can have a strain in their