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Health & Safety at Work Act (1974)
• Sets out duties that employers have to employees and what duties employees have to themselves and others. • Steps employers must take; - Carry out assessments of H & S risks - Make arrangements for any risks found in assessment to be mended. - Keep a record of assessments & adjustments made as a result. - Draw up a H & S Policy and drawing the employees attention to it. - Appointing competent people to carry out H & S adjustments. - Provide clear emergency procedures (E.g Fire exits). - Provide clear information & training. - Cooperate with other employees who share the same workplace. • Steps employees must take; - Take reasonable care of themselves. - Co-operate with employer - Use provided work …show more content…

• To comply with these regulations the employer must: - Analyse work stations to assess and reduce risk (includes looking at equipment, furniture & working environment) - Enusre workstations meet minimum requirements (includes adjustable chairs, suitable lighting, tilt & swivel monitors and sufficent work space.) - Plan the employee's work to allow for breaks and changes in activity (doesn't specify how long these breaks should be) - Arrange eye tests on request & provide spectacles if special ones are needed (special ones only). Provide H & S training and information.

Electronic Communications Act (2000)
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• Aim: to facilitate electronic communication and electronic data storage. 1st way - encryption services - involve the encoding of data so it is unintelligible except to those with the key to decode it. - 2nd way - making electronic signatures legally binding. • This act is of particular benefit to organisations that sell goods/services using e-commerce. It means the organisation can be confident about the encryption services used. Also means they can obtain electronic signatures from customers on contracts rather than having to send out hard copies of contracts for a

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