HSWA Health and Safety at Work

Aromatherapists need to be aware of a number of legislative regulations. These include The Medicines Act (1968) COSHH, Control of Substances Hazardous to Health HSWA, Health and Safety at Work Act (1974) and CHIP, Chemicals (Hazard Information and Packaging for Supply) Regulations (CHIP 2 1994). The MCA (Medicines Control Agency) also has significant implications and constantly encroaches on the supply and use of products related to health. 

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The basis for health and safety law in the United Kingdom is provided under the Health and Safety at Work Act 1974 (HSWA), which sets out the general duties that employers have to their employees, and members of the public, and that employees have to themselves and each other. The legislation helps to fulfil wider European requirements for health and safety and places a general duty on manufacturers to ensure that substances are safe when properly used and to carry out such tests as are necessary. 

The HSWA requires every employer employing five or more people to prepare a written statement of their safety policy The written policy statement must set out the employers aims and objectives for improving health and safety at work. 

Duties of employees are already in place under HSWA and the Management of Health and Safety at Work Regulations and the Manual Handling Operations Regulations supplement these general duties as they apply to manual handling. 

The Health and Safety at Work Act 1974 (HSWA) covers almost all work situations, and places general duties on employers to provide protection for all people at work and some protection to the general public. The HSWA is of over-riding importance, and its requirements should be considered before reference to other Acts and regulations that may also be applicable (see also Appendix 2). The HSWA places a number of general duties on employers, including ... 

One of the first questions to be addressed in the safety programme was the definition of the safety target for the project. lEC 61508 does not directly address the question of how to do this, although many of its examples are based on the assumption that risks will be reduced As Low as Reasonably Practicable (ALARP). This is understandable given that applying the ALARP principle is a duty of all employers under the Health and Safety at Work etc Act 1974 (HSWA). 

Bertha Duncan, an employee of Hazards Ltd, while at work trips over some wire in a badly lit passageway, used by visitors as well as by employees. The employer notifies the accident in accordance with his statutory obligations. The investigating factory inspector, Instepp, is dissatisfied with some of the conditions at Hazards, so he issues an improvement notice in accordance with the Health and Safety at Work etc. Act 1974 (HSWA), requiring adequate lighting in specified work areas. 

In spite of changes of Goverranents, the main recommendations of the Robens Committee were accepted by Parliament and were incorporated in the Health and Safety at Work etc. Act 1974 (HSWA). 

As work gets under way, the principal contractor, who has responsibility for the construction phase of the project, has to ensure that all those employed are properly trained for their jobs. Under HSWA, now amplified by the Management of Health and Safety at Work Regulations 1999 (MHSWR), tire employer is required to provide training in specific circumstances, i.e. on joining an employer, when work situations diange and at regular intervals. 

The conditions in an IPC authorisation cover emissions to water, land and air and extend to the prevention of persistent offensive odours at or beyond the boundary of the premises. The standards demanded by the authorisation include the application of the best available techniques not entailing excessive costs (BATNEEC). This is a new enforcement concept seen as equivalent to so far as is reasonably practicable of the Health and Safety at Work Act, 1974 (HSWA). The Environment Agency has produced numerous process- and sector-specific guidance notes on Part A Processes. ... 

Acts are sometimes referred to as statutes. The primary Act relating to health and safety in the UK is the Health and Safety at Work etc. Act 1974 (HSWA). This Act, among other statutes, imposes a number of legal duties on an employer and failure to comply with these duties may give rise to criminal liability, resulting in fines and/or imprisonment. 

Regulation 3 of the Management of Health and Safety at Work Regulations 1999 requires every employer to carry out suitable and sufficient assessments of risk. Article 23(1) of the RRFSO or section 7 of HSWA states that employees must take care of themselves or others (relevant persons) who may be affected by their acts or omissions. 

In 1996 the owners of a large chemical plant were prosecuted under section 33 of the Health and Safety at Work etc. Act 1974 as a result of their failure to comply with section 3(1) of HSWA when an employee of the specialist contractors, who had been hired to carry out a repair to the lining of a tank within the plant, was seriously injured as a result of inadequate fire safety management. 

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