The Workplace Health, Safety and Welfare Regulations

Implications of the Workplace (Health, Safety and Welfare) Regulations 1992 necessitate one accessing the safety guidance for the education sector, with a list of publications, which is available at http //www.hse.gov.Uk/pubns/iacl97.htm 2 In the US, the health, safety and environmental affairs (HS E) policy is administered by the Occupational Safety and Health Administration, whose website is ... 

Requirements for safety in and about the workplace are contained in the Workplace (Health, Safety and Welfare) Regulations 1992 and its associated Approved Code of Practice no L 24, which should be referred to for more detailed guidance. 

While offices are workplaces and as such have to comply with the requirements of the Workplace (Health, Safety and Welfare) Regulations 1992 as summarized in Section 5.1 they do contain a number of hazards that are specific to them and for which there are particular precautions. 

The duties summarized below deal only with safe working on normal construction sites and only where they refer to matters not covered by the Workplace (Health, Safety and Welfare) Regulations 1992. They do not deal with particular duties covered in the Construction (Design and Management) Regulations 1994, which are covered in Section 14.1, nor to the precautions necessary in specialized construction work. 

WHSWR The Workplace (Health, Safety and Welfare) Regulations 1992... 

An example of the relationship between these three forms of requirement/advice can be shown using a common problem found throughout industry and commerce - minimum temperatures in the workplace. Regulation 7 of the Workplace (Health, Safety and Welfare) Regulations states, (1) During working hours,... 

Regulation 12 of the Workplace (Health, Safety and Welfare) Regulations 1992 (WHSW) requires an employer (and others, to the extent of their control) to keep, so far as reasonably practicable, every floor in the workplace free from obstructions and from any article which may cause a person to slip, trip or fall. In the Hazards incident Bertha s tripping, her injury, the wire being there, the routine of Hazards, are questions of fact. However, the meaning of obstruction, of floor, of reasonably practicable are questions of law. 

The Workplace (Health Safety and Welfare) Regulations, Disability Discrimination Act and Discrimination (Employment) Regulations all require arrangements to be established to ensure all persons can safely gain access and use facilities and do not differentiate these requirements from those required in the event of an emergency. 

HSWA) in terms of, for instance, basic requirements relating to machinery safety, electrical safety and construction safety. The Workplace (Health, Safety and Welfare) Regulations 1992 (WHSWR) and the Provision and Use of Work Equipment Regulations 1992 (PUWER) continue this philosophy. Safe place strategies may be classified as follows ... 

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