New regulations for health and safety at work

Six new sets of health and safety at work regulations came into force on 1 January 1993. The new regulations implement European Community (EC) directives on health and safety at work in the move towards a single European Union. At the same time they are part of a continuing modernisation of existing UK law. 

Most of the duties in the new regulations are not completely new hut clarify and make more explicit what is in current health and safety law. A lot of out-of-date law will be repealed by the new regulations, e.g. many parts of the Factories Act 1961. Some of these have been updated since 1993. 

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