Health And Safety At Work Act Flashcards
Section 2(1)
General duty.
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 employees.
Section 2(2)a
Provide and maintain plant and systems of work that are safe and without risk to health.
Section 2(2)b
Make arrangements for ensuring safe and healthy use, handling, storage and transport of articles and substances
Section 2(2)c
Provide adequate information, instruction, training and supervision as is necessary to ensure the health and safety of all employees
Section 2(2)d
Provide safe access and egress to and from working areas under the employers control
Section 2(2)e
Provide a safe and healthy working environment and adequate facilities arrangements for welfare at work.
Section 2(3)
A safety policy is a written statement of the employers intent to ensure the safety of their employees.
The act requires employers prepare the statement and bring it to the attention of employees together with any subsequent revision.
A company is required to have a written safety policy if it employs five or more employees.
It consists of the Statement of intent, organisation and arrangements.
Section 3
Duties of employers to others.
Both employers and the self-employed have a duty to conduct their undertakings in such a way as not to expose people not employed by them to risks to their health and safety.
Section 4
Duties of person in control of premises.
It is the duty of each person (Who has, to any extent, control of premises) to ensure that the premises, all means of access or egress and any plant or substance in the premises provided for use there, is or are safe and without risks to health.
The control of premises may be handed over in contracts to another person who then becomes the duty holder.
Section 6
General duties of manufacturers
To ensure:
Articles are safe when being set, used, cleaned or maintained
Substances are safe when being used, processed, handled, stored or transported.
To carry out tests or examinations as may be necessary to ensure that they are safe and without risk to health and safety
To supply information relevant to safety and relevant revisions.
Section 7
Duties of employees at work
Take reasonable care for the health and safety of themselves and others who may be affected by their acts or omissions.
To cooperate with their employer in the fulfilment of their duties
Section 8
Duty not to interfere with or misuse.
No person shall intentionally or recklessly interfere with or misuse anything provided in the interests of health and safety.
Section 9
Duty not to charge employees
No charge shall be made to employees for anything provided in the interests of health and safety.
Section 36
Fault of another
Where a person by his act or default causes another person to commit an offence then he, as well as that other person may be charged with the offence.
Section 37
Personal liability
Where an offence is committed by the body corporate is shown to have been committed due to the consent, connivance or neglect of a director, manager, secretary or a member of staff acting in a managerial capacity, then he as well ad the body corporate shall be guilty of the offence.
Consent - agreeing/authorising something to go on
Connivance - wilful blindness to something going on
Neglect - failure to prevent something from going on.
