1.5 The Management of Health and Safety at Work Regulations 1999 Flashcards
What does Regulation 3 of MHSAWR cover?
Risk assessment
What does Regulation 4 of MHSAWR cover?
Principles of prevention to be applied
What is being described below:
(a) avoiding risks;
(b) evaluating the risks which cannot be avoided;
(c) combating the risks at source;
(d) adapting the work to the individual, especially regarding workplace design and the choice of work equipment and working / production methods;
(e) adapting to technical progress;
(f) replacing the dangerous by the non-dangerous or the less dangerous;
(g) developing a coherent overall prevention policy which covers technology, organisation of work, working conditions, social relationships and the influence
of factors relating to the working environment;
(h) giving collective protective measures priority over individual protective measures; and
(i) giving appropriate instructions to employees.
The ‘Principles of Prevention’
Which of the Management of Health and Safety at Work Regulations 1999 is being described below:
Having conducted a risk assessment (Reg. 3) and introduced risk control (preventative and protective) measures the employer is required to implement
appropriate management controls to ensure the effective planning, organisation, control, monitoring and review of the preventive and protective measures.
Regulation 5: Health and safety arrangements
Which of the Management of Health and Safety at Work Regulations 1999 is being described below:
the employer to ensure that employees are provided with any
necessary health surveillance appropriate to the identified risks to their health and
safety.
Regulation 6: Health surveillance
Which of the Management of Health and Safety at Work Regulations 1999 is being described below:
The employer is required to appoint a competent person(s) to assist in undertaking
the measures necessary to comply with the requirements of the legislation.
Regulation 7: Health and safety assistance
Which of the Management of Health and Safety at Work Regulations 1999 is being described below:
The employer is required to:
implement appropriate procedures to be followed in the event of serious and
imminent danger arising in the workplace;
appoint a sufficient number of competent persons to implement evacuation
procedures; and
restrict access to ‘danger areas’ to those employees who have received adequate
instruction and training regarding the risks and controls.
Regulation 8: Procedures for serious and imminent danger and for danger areas
Which of the Management of Health and Safety at Work Regulations 1999 is being described below:
The employer is required to arrange any necessary contacts with external services for provision of appropriate first-aid, emergency medical care or rescue work responses.
Regulation 9: Contacts with external services
Which of the Management of Health and Safety at Work Regulations 1999 is being described below:
The employer should provide employees with relevant, comprehensible information regarding:
(a) the risks to their health and safety;
(b) the preventive and protective measures;
(c) the procedures for serious and imminent danger, and danger areas including the identity of the competent persons appointed for evacuation procedures; and
(d) the risks created by another employer while sharing a workplace (see Reg. 11).
Where a child is employed the information is provided to the parent or guardian.
Regulation 10: Information for employees
Which of the Management of Health and Safety at Work Regulations 1999 is being described below:
Where two or more employers share a workplace (permanently or temporarily) each employer is required to:
(a) co-operate with the other employers;
(b) take reasonable steps to co-ordinate his control measure with the measures the other employers are taking;
(c) take reasonable steps to inform the other employers of any potential risks to their employees’ health and safety.
Regulation 11: Co-operation and co-ordination
Which of the Management of Health and Safety at Work Regulations 1999 is being described below:
When a third parties (e.g. a contractor) employees visit the workplace they must be provided with comprehensible information on the risks to their health and safety and corresponding control measures.
Regulation 12: Persons working in host employers’ or self-
employed persons’ undertakings
Which of the Management of Health and Safety at Work Regulations 1999 is being described below:
An employee’s capabilities for health and safety need to be taken into account before the employer allocates them work.
Employees are to be provided with adequate health and safety training:
on recruitment;
on being exposed to new or increased risks because of changes of: responsibility; work equipment; new technology; or new systems of work.
Regulation 13: Capabilities and training
Which of the Management of Health and Safety at Work Regulations 1999 is being described below:
All employees’ are required to:
use any machinery, equipment, dangerous substance, transport equipment, means of production or safety device in accordance with health and safety training and
instruction;
inform the employer (or employee with specific responsibility) of any work situation which represented a serious and immediate danger to health and safety; and
of any shortcomings in the protection arrangements for health and safety.
Regulation 14: Employees’ duties
Which of the Management of Health and Safety at Work Regulations 1999 is being described below:
Temporary workers, employed under a fixed term contract of employment should be provided with comprehensible information on:
(a) any occupational qualifications or skills required to carry out work safely;
(b) any health surveillance required.
Regulation 15: Temporary workers
Which of the Management of Health and Safety at Work Regulations 1999 is being described below:
Where work involves risk, to the health and safety of a new or expectant mother, or her baby, from any processes or working conditions, or physical, biological or chemical agents the Reg. 3 risk assessment should address those risks.
Regulation 16: Risk assessment in respect of new or expectant Mothers
