Self-employed person

Requirements for any employer of, or self-employed, persons to be members of the Council for Registered Gas Installers (CORGI). Individual gas fitters must possess certificates of competence. 

The statute covers all employers and their employees in all the states and federal territories, with certain exceptions. Generally, the statute does not cover self-employed persons, farms employing solely family members, and those workplaces covered under other federal statutes. Refiners must evaluate whether the chemicals they manufacture and sell are hazardous. Under the General Duty Clause of OSHA, employers are required to provide an environment that is free from recognized hazards that could cause physical harm or death. 

Medicare is an entitlement program and serves all eligible beneficiaries regardless of income or medical history Like Social Securify, Medicare is based on a system of social insurance. Medicare is composed of two programs. Medicare Part A covers inpatient care in hospitals and skilled nursing facilities. It also covers hospice care and some home health care. Part A is financed by a 1.45% payroll fax paid by bofh employees and employers (2.9% for self-employed persons). Currenf employers and employees pay for the health care of current Medicare beneficiaries, wifh the expectation that when they reach age 65 they will receive the same benefits. In the U.S., when people turn 65 years of age, they are automatically eligible for Medicare s Parf A, and they do not have to pay for the hospital insurance if they, or a spouse, paid Medicare taxes when they were working. 

A master trust scheme is a scheme open to membership to the relevant employees of more than one employer, self-employed persons and persons with accrued benefits transferred from other schemes. This type of scheme is especially suitable for small and medium-sized companies. 

Mandatory contributions are basically calculated on the basis of 10% of an employee s relevant income, with the employer and employee each paying 5%. Self-employed persons also have to contribute 5% of their relevant income. Mandatory contributions must be paid to registered MPF schemes managed by trustees. They mustbe paid for each period for which an employer pays relevant income to his or her employee. Investment managers will be appointed by the trustees of MPF schemes to make long-term investment of scheme assets and accrue benefits for the scheme members for their retire-... 

A) forcing or requiring any employer or self-employed person to join any labor or employer organization or to enter into any agreement which is prohibited by section 8(e) [subsection (e) of this section] ... 

The general duties of employers and self-employed persons include in s. 3 a requirement to conduct their undertakings in such a way that persons other than their employees are not exposed to risks to their health and safety. In certain cases information may have to be given as to what these risks are. 

Work means an activity a person is engaged in whether as an employee or as a self-employed person. An employee is considered to be at work all the time he is following his employment whether paid or not and a self-employed person is at work throughout such time as he devotes to work as a self-employed person. Regulations can extend the meaning of work and at work to other situations such as YTS training . 

Self-employed person is an individual who works for gain or reward otherwise than under a contract of employment, whether or not he employs others. 

The Regulations place duties, so far as they relate to matters within their control, on employers (with special reference to managers of a mine or a quarry), self-employed persons and employees. Certain of the Regulations place additional duties on managers of mines. Comprehensive guidance is given in a Memorandum and Approved Codes of Practice . ... 

A self-employed person must provide suitable equipment to enable him to render first-aid to himself. 

I (b) Implementation. (1) If a self-employed person Is Injured or becomes III while doing work at my business, do I need to record the Injury or Illness No, self-employed individuals are not covered by the OSH Act or this regulation. 

The main objective of risk assessment is to determine the measures required by the organization to comply with relevant health and safety legislation and, thereby, reduce the level of occupational injuries and ill-health. The purpose is to help the employer or self-employed person to determine the measures required to comply with their legal statutory duty under the Health and Safety at Work Act 1974 or its associated Regulations. The risk assessment will need to cover all those who may be at risk, such as customers, contractors and members of the public. In the case of shared workplaces, an overall risk assessment may be needed in partnership with other employers. 

Over three-day lost time injury If there is an accident connected with work (including physical violence) and an employee, or self-employed person working on the premises, suffers an injury and is away from work or not doing their normal duties for more than three days (including weekends, rest days or holidays) but not counting the day of the accident, the responsible person must send a completed accident report form, F2508, to the enforcing authority within ten days. 

Every employer and self-employed person is under a duty to conduct their undertaking in such a way as to ensure, so far as is reasonably practicable, that persons not in their employment (and themselves for self-employed) who may be affected, are not exposed to risks to their health and safety. 

This Regulation gives details of the notice required to the enforcing authority if an employer or self-employed person is carrying out work on their own premises and do not therefore need a licence. They must give the relevant enforcing authority 14 days written notice of... 

Where work with asbestos forms part of a larger project, there will be a particular need to co-operate with other employers, and there may be other Regulations which must be taken into account. However, the responsibility to ensure compliance with the provisions of the Asbestos Regulations remains with the employer or self-employed person. 

The responsible person must (except a competent self-employed person) appoint one or more competent persons to assist them in undertaking the preventive and protective measures. If more than one person is appointed, they must make arrangements for ensuring adequate co-operation between them. 

A self-employed person who works with ionising radiation will simultaneously have certain duties under these Regulations, both as an employer and as an employee. 

For example, self-employed persons may need to take such steps as ... 

The Regulations apply to an employer or self-employed person providing lifting equipment for use at work, or who has control of the use of lifting equipment. They do not apply to equipment to be used primarily by members of the public, for example, lifts in a shopping centre. However, such circumstances are covered by the HSW Act 1974. 

Regulation 11 does not apply to multi-occupied premises or sites where each unit, under the control of an individual tenarrt employer or self-employed person, is regarded as a separate workplace. In other cases, common areas may be shared workplaces, such as a reception area or carrteen or they may be under the control of a person to whom Section 4 of HSW Act applies. Suitable arrangements may need to be put in place for these areas. 

Every employer (and self-employed person) shall ensure that any PPE provided is maintained, including replaced and cleaned, in an efficient state, in efficient working order and in good repair. 

When an employer or self-employed person has to provide PPE they must ensure that appropriate accommodation is provided to store it when not in use. 

In this it is easy to discern both the influence of the judgements at common law and the report of the Robens Committee. The above outlines the duties of an employer to his employees but, in addition. Section 3 of the Act requires both employers and the self-employed to ensitre that persons not in their employment (i.e. the general public) are not thereby exposed to risks to their health and safety. This section also requires a self-employed person not to risk his own health and safety in the course of his business. Section 4 of the Act places a similar duty on persons in control of premises. This duty is... 

The responsibility for compl3dng with the requirements relating to specific hazards is placed on employers, the self-employed person, the person controlling construction works, employees and every person at work. 

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