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They also extend and specify existing duties on employers under HSWA, particularly in
the case of training. Furthermore, it should be appreciated that the majority of these
duties are of an absolute nature compared with those under HSWA, where the duties
are qualified by the term 'so far as is reasonably practicable'.
Management of Health &
Safety at Work Regulations 1992
Under these regulations an employer shall -
(a) make a suitable and sufficient assessment of the risks to employees and persons not in his
employment.
(b) make and give effect to such arrangements as are appropriate for the effective planning,
organisation, control, monitoring and review of the preventive and protective measures.
(c) ensure that his employees are provided with such health surveillance as is appropriate having
regard to the risks to their health and safety which are identified by the assessment.
(d) appoint one or more competent persons to assist him in undertaking the measures he needs
to take to comply with the requirements and prohibitions imposed upon him by or under the
relevant statutory provisions
(e) (i) establish and where necessary give effect to appropriate procedures to be followed in the
event of serious and imminent danger to persons at work in his undertaking;
(ii) nominate a sufficient number of competent persons to implement those procedures
in so far as they relate to the evacuation from premises of persons at work in his
undertaking; and
(iii) ensure that none of his employees has access to any area occupied by him to which
it is necessary to restrict access on grounds of health and safety unless the employee
concerned has received adequate health and safety instruction.
Management of Health &
Safety at Work Regulations 1992
(f) provide his employees with relevant and comprehensible information on -
(i) the risks to their health and safety identified by the assessment;
(i) co-operate with the other employers concerned so far as is necessary to enable
them to comply with the requirements and prohibitions imposed upon them by or under
the relevant statutory provisions;
(ii) take all reasonable steps to co-ordinate the measures he takes to comply with
the requirements and prohibitions imposed with the measures the other employers are
taking to comply with same;
(iii) take all reasonable steps to inform the other employers concerned of the
risks to their employees' health and safety arising out of or in connection with the conduct
by him of his undertaking.
Management of Health &
Safety at Work Regulations 1992
(h) ensure that the employer of any employees from an outside undertaking who are working in his
undertaking is provided with comprehensible information on -
(i) the risks to those employees' health and safety arising out of or in connection with the
conduct by him of his undertaking;
(ii) the measures taken by that first-mentioned employer in compliance with the requirements
and prohibitions imposed upon him by or under the relevant statutory provisions insofar as
they relate to those employees;
(j) in entrusting tasks to his employees, take into account their capabilities as regards health and
safety.
(k) ensure that his employees are provided with adequate health and safety training;
(i) on recruitment;
(ii) on being transferred, given a change of responsibilities, on the introduction of new work
equipment or a change respecting existing work equipment, on the introduction of new
technology, or the introduction of a new system of work or change in an existing system of
work.
The above training shall -
(i) be repeated periodically where appropriate;
(ii) be adapted to take account of new or changed risks to the health and safety of the
employees concerned; and take place during working hours
Management of Health & Safety at Work Regulations 1992 (cont)
(I) provide any temporary worker i.e. a person employed under a fixed- term contract of
employment or one employed in an employment business, with comprehensible information
on -
(i) any special occupational qualifications or skills required to be held by that employee if
he is to carry out his work safely;
(ii) any health surveillance required to be provided to that employee by or under the
relevant statutory provisions;
(m) ensure that every person carrying on an employment business whose employees are
required to carry out work in his undertaking is provided with comprehensible information on:
(i) any special occupational qualifications or skills required to be held by those
employees if they are to carry out their work safely;
(ii) the specific features of the jobs to be filled by those employees (in so far as those
features are likely to affect their health and safety);
and the person carrying on the employment business concerned shall ensure that
the information so provided is given to the said employees
Note: Self-employed persons have, in most cases, identical duties to that of an employer
under the regulations.
Management of Health &
Safety at Work Regulations 1992
For Example:
If you are cleaning the oven with corrosive cleaner without using
gloves or apron there is a great risk of being harmed.
If you wear all protective clothing and gloves and adhere to all
safety precautions the risk is low.
If you change the chemical to a safer type and adhere to all
precautions the risk will be even lower.
Five Steps to Risk Assessment
When undertaking risk assessment on
work equipment it must be decided what
the requirements are already complied
with and, if not, what additional action
must be taken to ensure compliance.
Visitors
Contractors
Cleaning staff
Maintenance staff
Inexperienced staff
Step 3. Assessment of the Risk
For the hazards listed; You must ask yourself do the precautions
already taken:
15 Mtrs.
8 Mtrs.
1 Mtr.
Step 4- Recording of
Assessment Findings
Formal written record.
Any suitable form.
Where the risk is considered to be low, either from experience or
from the calculation of risk rating, this must be stated in the form
and no further action is then required.
If the risk is deemed to be medium or high, the further action
needed to control that risk must be clearly stated on the risk
assessment form.
Risk Control
RATING ACTION BANDS
Unlikely (2)
Likely (3)
Unlikely (2) 2 4 6
Likely (3) 3 6 9
Unlikely (2) 2 4 6
Likely (3) 3 6 9