Britain, safety regulation

The safety of pressure systems in Great Britain is controlled by the Pressure System Safety Regulations 2000. These probably apply if... 

The Management of Health and Safety at Work Regulations 1992 implement the EC Framework Directive and apply to most work activities in Great Britain. These regulations extend the employers general safety obligations under the Health and Safety at Work, etc Act 1974. In particular they require employers to assess the risks to employees and others from their undertakings and to put in place appropriate preventative and protective measures. 

Railtrack has become the focus of increasing concern in debates about Britain s railways. The Railway Inspectorate and the trade unions have indicated their anxiety about the role of the company and so has the Commons Select Committee on the Environment, Transport, and Regional Affairs. This committee had been worried for some years by the safety arrangements on the privatized railway. It recommended in 1998 that transport safety regulation should... 

The constitutive objectives of occupational health and safety regulation in Britain are ambitious. The ideal is that regulatory objectives are so well internalized and incorporated into organizational scripts and everyday life that they are normalized and taken for granted. Crucially the law must be translated into the daily operation of the organization. Moreover this regulation has communitarian ambitions to empower employees and to realize them as... 

Britain s Toy Safety Regulations [S.l. 1974], however, markedly lowered the permissible Pb content in toy paints to 0.25% by weight, on the belief that oral contact with toy surfaces by children occurs more frequently and intensely than for structural surfaces (Home Office, 1974). 

In Great Britain the Health and Safety (First Aid) Regulations 1981 require an employer to provide sueh equipment and faeilities as are adequate and appropriate in the eireumstanees to enable first aid to be rendered to his employees if they are injured, or beeome ill, at work. An Approved Code of Praetiee gives more speeifie details on the number of first-aid personnel and their training, and the type of equipment. 

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