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In the UK there has been a variety of health and safety legislation in place for many years. The Health & safety at Work, etc Act 1974 brought together a number of piecemeal industry specific laws and imposed a wide range of general health and safety duties on all employers. It also places duties on employees and the self-employed. The obligations in the Act are deliberately broad but they are backed up in many cases by codes of practice and guidance notes.

HEALTH & SAFETY AT WORK ACT 1974:

Regulations

Health & Safety (Information for Employees) Regulations 1989:
..... They require that the information relating to health, safety and welfare be provided to employees through posters or leaflets, which must be in the form approved by the Health & Safety Executive.

Workplace (Health Safety & Welfare) Regulations 1992:
..... These impose the responsibility for compliance on the person in control of the workplace. A suitable system of the maintenance of the workplace and equipment is a requirement.

Manual Handling Operations Regulations 1992:
..... These are designed to reduce the risk of injury caused by the manual handling of loads. Rather than setting specific requirements such as weight limits they need an ergonomic assessment based on a range of relevant factors.

Personal Protective Equipment at Work Regulations 1992:
..... Requirements for the use of protective equipment at work are specified. Such equipment should only be used as a last resort and wherever possible risk to the health and safety of employees should be reduced by other means.

Reporting of Injuries, Diseases and Dangerous Occurrences Regulations 1995:
..... Where there is a notifiable accident resulting in the death or a major injury to a person duties are imposed on persons responsible for the activities of people at work to report the accident to the enforcing authority.

Fire Precautions (Workplace) Regulations 1997:
..... Provisions in relation to fire fighting and fire detection, emergency routes and exits and maintenance are laid down and to the extent that it is appropriate the workplace must be equipped with appropriate fire fighting equipment and with fire detectors and alarms.

Health & Safety (Young Persons) Regulations 1997:
..... Certain types of work are prohibited for young people (and children) except in certain circumstances including, work that is beyond their physical capacity or that involves extremes of cold and heat, noise or vibration or radiation or toxic substances.

Provision and Use of Work Equipment Regulations 1998:
..... General duties are placed on employers to ensure that work equipment is constructed or adapted so as to be suitable for the purpose for which it is provided and it must be maintained in efficient working order and in good repair.

Management of Health & Safety at Work Regulations 1999:
..... Employers are required to make a suitable and sufficient assessment of the risks to the health and safety of their employees to which they are exposed whilst at work and this also includes people not in their employment. Employers with five or more employees must put their risk assessment in writing.

Control of Substances Hazardous to Health (COSHH) 1999 (last amended):
..... These regulations are designed to control the exposure of employees to hazardous substances encountered at work and they require assessments of risk and suitable control and monitoring measures.