The Management of Health and Safety at Work Regulations

You must also do specific risk assessments for young people - you need to take account of their nexperience, lack of awareness of risks and nmatirity (see the Management of Health and Safety at Work Regulations 1999). 

The Management of Health and Safety at Work Regulations 1999 also require all employers to undertake risk assessments with respect to health and safety at work (HSE 2001). During 2004 the West Dorset Hospitals NHS Trust received an HSE enforcement notice for failing to have a work-related stress policy or a risk assessment of work-related stressors. 

Risk and risk assessment are one of the fundamental ways safety and unsafety is managed on UK construction sites, and are prescribed by law. The Management of Health and Safety at Work Regulations (1999) require that risks associated with any work activity are assessed before work starts. Risk assessments form the basis of many Health and Safety Regulations, and a standardised format and prescribed approach to the process often forms part of the safety management system toolkit in the establishment of safe systems of 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 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. 

The Management of Health and Safety at Work Regulations already require risk assessments of work activities to be carried out to identify risks arising from the use of lifting equipment and the appropriate precautions required to deal with these risks. The level of precaution will depend on the degree of risk assessed, and should reduce the risk to as low a level as is reasonably practicable. Particular hazards to be considered are equipment striking a person or object and the consequences of equipment failing. 

As mentioned earlier, on 1 January 1993, following an EC Directive, the Management of Health and Safety at Work Regulations became law in the UK. These regulations... 

The Management of Health and Safety at Work Regulations apply to everyone at work and encourage employers to take a more systematic approach to dealing with health and safety by ... 

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