Slips, Trips and Falls
Your Legal Requirements
Responsibilities
The Management of Health & Safety at Work Regulations 1999 (13(2)) require that every employer must ensure that their employees are provided with adequate health and safety training :
- When employment is started.
- Be repeated where risks may be increased due to changes of responsibilities or changes in working practices.
- And that training should; Be repeated on a regular basis, Be adapted to take account of new risks to health and safety, Take place during working hours.
The Workplace (Health, Safety and Welfare) Regulations 1992 (12 Conditions of floors and traffic routes) state that :
(2a) The floor, or surface of the traffic route, shall have no hole or slope, or be uneven or slippery so as to expose any person to a risk to his health and safety;
(3) So far as is reasonably practicable, every floor in a workplace and the surface of every traffic route in a workplace shall be kept free from obstructions and from any article or substance which may cause a person to slip, trip or fall.
The Health and Safety at Work Act 1974 states that :
2. General duties of employers to their employees.
(2:1) It shall be the duty of every employer to ensure, so far as is reasonably practicable, the health, safety and welfare at work of all his employees.
(2:c) the provision of such information, instruction, training and supervision as is necessary to ensure, so far as is reasonably practicable, the health and safety at work of his employees;
(2:e) the provision and maintenance of a working environment for his employees that is, so far as is reasonably practicable, safe, without risks to health, and adequate as regards facilities and arrangements for their welfare at work.
7. General Duties of employees at work.
It shall be the duty of every employee while at work -
(a) to take reasonable care for the health and safety of himself and of other persons who may be affected by his acts or omissions at work;
It shall be the duty of every employer to ensure, so far as is reasonably practicable, the health, safety and welfare at work of all his employees.
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