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enough at their jobs to avoid risks.
Training required: on induction, when job responsibilities change, upon the
introduction of new technology or new systems of work. Refresher training to be
provided. All training to be within normal working hours.
Provide temporary workers with some particular health and safety information
to meet special needs.
Carry out specific risk assessments relating to new or expectant mothers.
Obtain certificate from registered medical practitioner concerning new or
expectant mothers.
Protection of young persons, including need to carry out specific risk assessment
and to take into account their age, lack of maturity and inexperience etc.
Employees
The Regulations:
Extend the duties on employees, as contained in Section 7 of the Health and
Safety at Work Act 1974, to follow health and safety instructions, to report
serious and imminent danger and to point out any shortcomings in their
employer's arrangements. These duties are limited by the training and
instruction that the employee has received.
Also, new and expectant mothers need to notify their employer of their
condition.
The suitable and sufficient risk assessment is the cornerstone and it is essential that
employers get that right as everything else flows from it.
Key requirements of remaining six-pack regulations
Like the Management Regs (MHSWR99) these will be discussed further and put in to
context within the relevant units of study yet to come, as well as other specific
legislation.
Manual Handling Operations Regulations
Regulation 4 of these regulations requires employers to:
Avoid the need for employees to undertake any manual handling operations at
work which involve a risk of their being injured
Where manual handling cannot be avoided:
Make a suitable and sufficient assessment of the manual handling task to be
undertaken
Take appropriate steps to reduce the risk of injury to employees
In the context of the regulations manual handling means any transporting or supporting
of a load, including lifting, putting down, pushing, pulling, carrying or moving it, by hand
