Under the law employers are responsible for health and safety
management. The following provides a broad outline of how the law applies to employers.
Don't forget,employees and the self employed have important
responsibilities too.
It is an employer's
duty to protect the health, safety and welfare of their employees and other people
who might be affected by their business. Employers must do whatever is
reasonably practicable to achieve this.
This means making sure
that workers and others are protected from anything that may cause harm,
effectively controlling any risks to injury or health that could arise in the
workplace.
Employers have duties
under health and safety law to assess risks in the workplace. Risk assessments
should be carried out that address all risks that might cause harm in your
workplace.
Employers must give
you information about the risks in your workplace and how you are protected,
also instruct and train you on how to deal with the risks.
Employers must consult
employees on health and safety issues. Consultation must be either direct or
through a safety representative that is either elected by the workforce or
appointed by a trade union.
For more details on the basics of what employers must do to make
their business comply with health and safety law in a low risk business , HSE
has produced a booklet Health and safety made simple.
For more details on how health and safety law is meant to work,
HSE has produced a booklet: Health and safety regulation: A short guide .
Employers have a legal duty under the Health and Safety Information for Employees Regulations (HSIER) to
display the approved poster in a prominent position in each workplace or to
provide each worker with a copy of the approved leaflet Health and safety law: What you need to know that outlines British health and safety law.
If workers think their employer is exposing them to risks or is
not carrying out their legal duties regards to health and safety, and if this
has been pointed this out to them but no satisfactory response has been
received, workers can make acomplaint to HSE.
1 komentar:
I quite agree about a law that the employers must have the responsibilities about their employees. It is really important for the worker’s safety. But still, a lot of employers ignores that, they are not provide some safe equipment to the workers, so they automatically break the law. The goverment must quickly respond this kind of employers, and give the penalty for them. We can see that the goverment is always late to solve some problem like this, and certainly it will harm the employees. I must say that the goverment not just only making a law and let free some people who break it, the goverment must realize because it is really important for the safety of employees.
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