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The Management of Health and Safety at Work Regulations 1999 (as amended)
These regulations are more specific in that they require the following of the employer.

• Every employer shall, in entrusting tasks to employees, take into account their capabilities as regards health and safety.
• Every employer shall ensure that employees are provided with adequate health and safety training:
  • on their being recruited into the employer’s undertaking; and
  • on their being exposed to new or increased risks because of:
    • their being transferred or given a change of responsibilities within the employer’s undertaking
    • the introduction of new work equipment or a change regarding work equipment already in use within the employers undertaking
    • the introduction of new technology into the employers undertaking
    • the introduction of a new system of work or a change regarding a system of work already in use within the employer’s undertaking.

Reference The Management of SMSTS London Health and Safety at Work Regulations 1999, Regulation 13
The Construction (Design and Management) Regulations 2007

These regulations specifically require that:

• contractors provide all of their workers with the necessary information and training which is necessary for their health and safety courses, including a suitable site induction, where it is not provided by a principal contractor Regulation 13(4)(a)
• the principal contractor takes all reasonable steps to ensure that every worker is provided with a suitable site induction. Regulation 22(2)(a)

The above requirement on contractors to provide site inductions means that inductions must be carried out on both notifiable and non-notifiable projects

Refer to Module A8 for detailed information on the requirements of the Construction (Design and Management) Regulations 2007.

The requirements of other regulations which in themselves indicate a need for competence in certain work situations, when viewed against the type of work to be carried out, might indicate additional topics which need to be covered during site induction.

• Guarantee, as far as is logically practicable, the health safety and welfare of all their employees. Module A1 page 3
• Grant and preserve plant and work systems that are safe and does not jeopardize health and safety and ensure safety and nonexistence of risks in the use, handling, storage and transport of articles and substances. Module A1 page 3-4
• Supply any essential information, as well as information on legal requirements, to ensure the health and safety of their employees. Provide adequate instruction, training and supervision as is necessary, to ensure the health and safety of their employees. Module A1 page 4
• Provide a secured place of work, with secured access and egress. Provide a safe working environment that is without risks to health. Module A1 page 4
• Supply adequate welfare facilities and arrangements for welfare at work. Module A1 page 4

• Have in force and exhibit an Employers’ Liability Compulsory Insurance Certificate. Module A13 page 11
• Have a universal statement of health and safety policy. Module A3 page 2-3
• Organize a written health and safety policy, if five or more persons are employed, then evaluate and revise it as often as is needed. Module A1 page 4
• Make the employees aware of the company’s health and safety policy, and any revisions of it.
• Exhibit an approved Health and Safety Law poster or provide each employee a duplicate of an approved leaflet to comply with The Health and Safety.
• Perform risk assessment for all work activities undertaken and document the significant findings of the risk assessment if five or more persons are employed.

Construction Site Safety

aims to Summarize the legal responsibilities of employers and employees while on duty. Identify the offences and penalties that can be sustained for conviction in court of an offence, which is against The Health and Safety at Work etc. Act 1974 or any regulation pertaining to health and safety. Facilitate employers, managers and supervisors to evaluate the efficiency of their company’s health and safety practices and procedures thru an employee health and safety survey. Highlight that health and safety legislation puts legal responsibilities not just on the employer, but more often, these responsibilities are also valid to the self-employed. Some legislation puts legal responsibilities on duty holders instead of the employer. These duties are summarised in the related modules and are excluded in the table on the next page.

The introduction of the Corporate Manslaughter and Corporate Homicide Act will enable the hearing of companies for manslaughter, in which their gross disregard will lead to the death of an individual or individuals.

The commencement of the Health and Safety (Offences) Act in 2009 spikes the number of health and safety offence, in which imprisonment is an option for the courts and it also increases the maximum fine for breaches of any health and safety regulations.

Legal duties of employers

In small companies, employers are often site-based and in a position to execute their legal responsibilities by directly scheming the workforce and supervising the standards of health and safety on site. By comparison, in large companies, the employer is not usually site-based and it is customary for them to assign a responsibility for day-to-day legal compliance to site-based staff such as site managers. It may be necessary for site managers to further assign the responsibility for supervising the health and safety aspects of some work activities to trade supervisors. Whatever the circumstances, the legal responsibility to ensure conformity with health and safety legislation lays on the employer.