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Where employers employ young persons, they must ensure that they are protected from risks to their health and safety arising out of their lack of experience or the fact that they have not yet fully matured. [Pg.385]

Regulation 19 is set in the most general terms, and contains a duty on employers to ensure that employed young persons are protected whilst at work from any risks to their health or safety which result from their lack of experience, of awareness of risks or any lack of maturity (paragraph 1). In particular (paragraph 2), young persons cannot be employed to do work beyond their physical or psychological capacity, or which involves ... [Pg.245]

The Health and Safety (Young Persons) Regulations 1997 require employers employing young persons to ... [Pg.56]

For example, EC Directives place several command and control-type obligations on employers to protect employees who may be more prone to adverse effects of chemical exposures, such as pregnant employees [210] and young persons [211]. [Pg.52]

It is important to note that the regulation prohibits employment of young persons and women in some tasks in lead smelting and refining and in lead-acid battery manufacturing. [Pg.41]

Particular conditions concerning the employment of young persons are contained in MSHW. [Pg.55]

Typical of the machines at which young persons should not work without proper training and supervision were listed in the Dangerous Machines (Training of Young Persons) Order 1954 While this Order has been revoked, it does provide a useful list of machines at which special precautions are necessary if young persons are employed. [Pg.57]

Prohibitions are placed on the employment of young girls in processes involving salt (s. 73), and women and young persons in processes involving lead (ss. 74,75). [Pg.45]

Part VI deals with the employment of young persons (hours of employment etc.)... [Pg.45]

In the 1954 Act the safety, health and welfare provisions for the mines are given separately from those of quarries whilst common sections deal with workmen s inspections, employment of women and young persons, records and returns, and fencing of abandoned and disused mines and quarries. [Pg.49]

The Factories Act of 1833 saw the appointment of Factory Inspectors and the need for doctors to certify that a child appeared to be at least nine years of age before being employed in textile mills. When birth certification was introduced in 1837 the assessment of children s ages became unnecessary. In 1844, the Factory Inspectors appointed Certifying Surgeons and by 1855 they were required to investigate industrial accidents and to certify that young persons were not incapacitated by disease or bodily infirmity. [Pg.322]

There are prohibitions on the use of glazes containing lead in the manufacture of pottery and employing a young person or a woman of reproductive capacity in... [Pg.440]

Employers must protect young persons at work from risks to their health and safety which are the result of lack of experience, or absence of awareness of existing or potential risks or because they have not yet fully matured. Young persons may not be employed in a variety of situations enumerated in the Regulations, which pose a significant risk to their health and safety. The exception to this is young persons over school leaving age ... [Pg.448]

They state that an employer who employs a young person shall, in carrying out a risk assessment take particular accoimt of the following factors ... [Pg.101]

Employers have an absolute duty to make suitable and sufficient assessment of health and safety risks, including risks from fire. They must take into account employees and others who may be affected by their work activities. The purpose of the risk assessment is for the employer to be able to ascertain what they have to do to comply with their legal obligations. Particular attention has to be given to assess risks where young persons (that is, people under 18 years of age) may be at risk. This regulation also requires employers to record the results of risk assessments and to review risk assessments. [Pg.10]

Every employer must ensure that young persons employed by them are protected from the additional risks which they are exposed to as a consequence of their lack of experience, low awareness of risks, and lack of physical and mental maturity. Young persons must not be employed for some specified tasks including tasks which are beyond their physical or psychological capacity, for example tasks ... [Pg.12]

An employer will therefore be required to complete a full assessment of risks prior to young persons undertaking work. [Pg.12]

When considering employing a young person the responsible person must include particular aspects in his risk assessment [9(5)] such as their inexperience and lack of maturity, the type and extent of training, degree of exposure to risk, the activities and premises that they may be undertaking their work in [Schedule 1 Part ]. [Pg.391]

This case established the fact that an employer owes a higher duty of care to a one-eyed workman who, in turn, has a greater risk of blindness than a workman with both eyes. On this basis, it could be argued that other vulnerable groups (e.g. young persons, pregnant women), are owed a higher duty of care than other persons. [Pg.23]

Paragraph 3 does not prevent the employment of a young person who is not a child where this is necessary for training, or where the young person will be supervised by a competent person and where any risk will be reduced to the lowest level that is reasonably practicable. These provisions are without prejudice to any other provisions or restrictions on employment arising elsewhere. [Pg.245]


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