Saturday 3 December 2016

Reasons for maintaining Health and Safety at work - Legal Reasons

Legal Reasons

The moral reasons have been turned into health and safety Law, UK’s Common Law judgements. The UK;sHealth and Safety at Work, etc, Act 1974(HSWA), and Regulations made under the law, follows a long list of legal requirements that reinforce the “duty of care”.

Many countries have introduced their own legal duties to protect the workers from harm. The following are the strong reasons for employer to manage risk legally:


Preventive –to prevent enforcement notices (improvement or prohibition) from the enforcement agencies.

Punitive - criminal courts impose fines and imprisonment for breaches of legal
duties. These punishments can be given to the company or to individuals within the
company.

Compensatory
 – employees / victim can sue employer in the civil courts for compensation.

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