Posts Tagged ‘Work’

New Legislation – Health and Safety of Children at Work Regulations

The Health and Safety of Children at Work regulations was promulgated on 15 January 2010 and subsequently added to the list of existing regulations in the Occupational Health and Safety Act, 85 of 1993. One of the previously neglected areas in a working environment was the conditions in which minors were working.  This is now [...]

Health And Safety At Work: Employees And Employer’s Responsibility

In the UK it is the Health & Safety Executive HSE who act to ensure that all of our workplaces are as safe as possible. In the 35 years since it was established the HSE has overseen a dramatic fall in death and injury rates in the workplace. In 1974 when the executive started, 651 [...]