Health & Safety At Work Act 1974

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Health & Safety at Work Act 1974,

Section 2

Paragraph 1.

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General duties of employers to their employees.

Paragraph 1.

It shall be the duty of every employer to ensure, so far as is reasonably practicable, the health, safety and welfare at work of all his employees.

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Reasonable

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Health & Safety at Work Act 1974,

Section 2 Paragraph 3

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Paragraph 3

Except in such cases as may be prescribed, it shall be the duty of every employer 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 employees and the organisation and arrangements for the time being in force for carrying out that policy, and to bring the statement and any revision of it to the notice of all of his employees.

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Policy

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Health & Safety at Work Act 1974,

Section 2 Paragraph 4

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Paragraph 4

Regulations made by the Secretary of State may provide for the appointment in prescribed cases by recognised trade unions (within the meaning of the regulations) of safety representatives from amongst the employees, and those representatives shall represent the employees in consultations with the employers under subsection (6) below and shall have such other functions as may be prescribed

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Representation

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Health & Safety at Work Act 1974,

Section 4

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Duty of persons in control of premises to maintain safe premises and access and egress

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Premises

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Health & Safety at Work Act 1974,

Section 3

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Employers to conduct their undertaking in a safe way to ensure safety of those not in his employment,Self Employed Persons to ensure no one in danger in the course of their undertaking,Duty to give information to those who may in danger in the course of the undertaking

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3rd parties & Self Employed

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Health & Safety at Work Act 1974,

Section 5

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Duty to not pollute with harmful emissions and to make safe

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Pollution

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Health & Safety at Work Act 1974,

Section 6

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Duty of Manufacturers to ensure that any article or substance is safe and that information is given on safe use

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Making things

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Health & Safety at Work Act 1974

Section 20, 21, 22

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S20 - Inspectors can: investigate, take photos, make reasonable enquiries

s21 – Serving an Improvement Notice

s22 – Serving anProhibition Notice

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Cameras & Notices

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Health & Safety at Work Act 1974

Section 8

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Do not intentionally or recklessly interfere with anythingintended for safety

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Interferance

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Health & Safety at Work Act 1974

Section 7

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It shall be the duty of every employee while at work

a) take reasonable care for the health and safety of himself and of other persons who may be affected by his acts or omissions at work; and b) co-operate with his employer to ensure that the employers duty can be performed

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Employee

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Risk Assessment

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A systematic process of evaluating the potential risks that may be involved in a projected activity or undertaking

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Risk =

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is the chance or probability that a person will be harmed or experience an adverse health effect if exposed to a hazard. It may also apply to situations with property or equipment loss.

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P x L

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Hazard =

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Any item, process, activity which has the potential to cause harm to the health and wellbeing of an employee or damage property

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Health& Safety at Work Act 1974, Section 2, Sub Paragraph 2.

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(2)Without prejudice to the generality of an employer’s dutyunder the preceding subsection, the matters to which that duty extends includein particular— (a)the provision and maintenance of plant and systems of workthat are, so far as is reasonably practicable, safe and without risks to health; (b)arrangements for ensuring, so far as is reasonablypracticable, safety and absence of risks to health in connection with the use,handling, storage and transport of articles and substances; (c)the provision of such information, instruction, trainingand supervision as is necessary to ensure, so far as is reasonably practicable,the health and safety at work of his employees; (d)so far as is reasonably practicable as regards any place ofwork under the employer’s control, the maintenance of it in a condition that issafe and without risks to health and the provision and maintenance of means ofaccess to and egress from it that are safe and without such risks; (e)the provision and maintenance of a working environment forhis employees that is, so far as is reasonably practicable, safe, without risksto health, and adequate as regards facilities and arrangements for theirwelfare at work.

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Appliances, Boxes, Courses, Doors, Environment

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Health & Safety at Work Act 1974,Section 9

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Employees cannot be charged for PPE required by law

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£ PPE