{"id":1157,"date":"2016-06-05T12:59:27","date_gmt":"2016-06-05T12:59:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/collaboriscom.wpengine.com\/?page_id=1157"},"modified":"2024-02-24T01:08:59","modified_gmt":"2024-02-24T01:08:59","slug":"health-and-safety-act","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.collaboris.com\/solutions\/regulatory-compliance\/health-and-safety-act\/","title":{"rendered":"Health and Safety at work etc. Act"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Health & Safety at Work etc. Act 1974<\/h1>\n

The Health & Safety at Work etc. Act 1974 requires all employers to ensure, so far as is reasonably practicable, the health, safety and welfare at work of all their employees.<\/h3>\n

This is achieved through having in place an effective Health & Safety Policy, specific to the organisation, which provides employees with comprehensible and relevant information on the risks they face and the preventative and protective measures that control those risks. Employers must provide whatever instruction, training and supervision that is necessary to implement the policy.<\/p>\n

The content of the policy must be communicated to all employees and in turn they must recognise both their responsibility in the implementation of the policy and their competence to fulfil its requirements through relevant training.<\/p>\n

Furthermore, regular updates to the Health & Safety Policy must be communicated to the employees who in turn must acknowledge that these have been read, understood and acted on.<\/p>\n

To comply with the law employers must:-<\/p>\n