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FAQ's
The questions below are standard areas which require your compliance under Health & Safety Legislation.
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Top Questions
Q.
What is health and safety all about?
A.
Properly identifying and controlling risks to people’s health and safety from work activities to prevent people from being harmed, or becoming ill, due to work activities.
Health and safety in the workplace concerns all of us, and the impact of poor health and safety on businesses, families and the whole economy is far reaching.
There are moral, business, economic and legal reasons for ensuring health and safety is properly managed, as detailed below.
Moral
People have the right to return home from work safe and sound. People matter, and the people best placed to make workplaces safer from harm are the staff and managers who work in them. Leadership from the top and the involvement of employees and their representatives are crucial.
Business
Good health and safety management can lead to real benefits such as saving money, improving productivity, raising morale and helping create a happier, healthier workforce.
Economic
Accidents result in costs to the company, and not all of these costs are insured. Uninsured costs include lost time, sick pay, extra wages/overtime payments, and investigation costs.
Legal
The main responsibility for managing health and safety rests with employers, who have duties under Sections 2 and 3 of the Health and Safety at Work etc Act 1974.
These duties are expanded upon by more specific legislation, in particular the Management of Health and Safety at Work Regulations 1999 which stipulate that:
- an assessment of work-related risks should be made (risk assessments);
- effective arrangements need to be in place for planning, organising, controlling, monitoring and reviewing the measures in place;
- a ‘competent person’ should be appointed to assist with undertaking the measures needed to comply with health and safety law; and
- employees should be provided with suitable and sufficient information regarding the risks they face and measures in place.
Where a ‘body corporate’ commits a health and safety offence, and the offence was committed with the consent or connivance of, or was attributable to any neglect on the part of, any director, manager, secretary or other similar officer of the body corporate, then that person (as well as the body corporate) is liable to be proceeded against and punished (section 37, Health and Safety at Work etc Act 1974).
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