Law Regarding Health Safety And Safety

The main features of the Health and Safety at Work Act (1974) is that it requires certain health and safety procedures to be maintained in a health and social care setting, for example, the act explains that there must be, safe operation and maintenance of working equipment, plant and system, maintenance of safe access to the workplace, safe use, handling and storage of dangerous/hazardous substances, training of staff to ensure that there is health and safety, to provide welfare for staff at work.

The Act, when first introduced, provided an integrated system dealing with workplace health and safety and the protection of the public from work activities. By placing duties upon employees, employers, the self-employed, manufacturers, designers and importers of work

Under this act, employers are responsible for reporting certain types of incidents, accidents or illnesses to the Health and Safety Exectutive, or the local authority.

The Management of Health at Work Regulations 1999. Employers are obliged to make a suitable and sufficient assessment of the risks to health and then apply risk control measures based on this.

The Occupational Health & Safety Act was introduced in 1979 and provides organizations with a legal framework to deal with workplace health and safety issues. The Act deals with the rights and responsibilities of work parties, and provides services to assist organizations in maintaining health standards to prevent workplace accidents. Under this act, the government also conducts research studies, gathers statistics on occupational accidents, and develops educational programs to encourage occupational health and safety.

Section 2 of the HSW Act deals with employersʹ duties, and states: ʺIt shall be the duty of all employers to ensure, so far as is reasonably practicable, the health safety and welfare of all their employees whilst they are at work.ʺ

The legislations that cover health and safety are health and safety at work act 1974

The Act, when first introduced, provided an integrated system dealing with workplace health and safety and the protection of the public from work activities. By placing general duties upon employees,employers,the self-employed,manufacturers,designers and importers of work equipment and materials, the protection of the

This legislation sets the standards that must be met to ensure the health and safety of all employees in the work place and members of the public who may be affected by any work activity.

The contract involved as stated, an “offer”, which is a communication of willingness to carry out an action on certain circumstances, which are made with the purpose that an compulsory agreement will exist once it is accepted, and an ‘acceptance’ which is the ultimate and complete agreement to all of the terms of the offer.

Implied terms of employment are terms, which are not identified between an employee and employer, these are broad terms, of which there are 4 types. These are Terms implied in fact, terms implied by custom or practice, terms implied by law, and terms implied by statue. Terms implied in fact usually used to make logic of what was written down in an employment contract

Employers have responsibilities for the health and safety of their employees and any visitors that enter the premises. This is set out in the Health and safety at work act 1974 and other legislation. Employees also have responsibility for their own safety in the workplace. Employers must provide a safe and healthy environment to all full/part time/temporary(agency)/visitors/contractors, employers must consider others welfare.

Summary of act: The act states all the employees are responsible for the personal safety of everyone in the work place and are legally obliged to report any dangerous hazards for the safety of others.

i. Workplace Health and Safety Act 1995 (QLD) – This Act provides a framework for managing health and safety

* Health and safety legislation: these laws are aimed at ensuring the workplace is as safe as is reasonably practical. They cover issues such as training, reporting accidents and the appropriate provision of safety equipment