Health and Safety

Duties of Employers and Employees

As an employer:

• You are responsible for seeing that your business is run so that risks to health and safety are properly controlled and that proper provision for employees welfare is made;
• It is your duty to protect the health and safety of your employees and other people who might be affected by what you do;
• You are obliged to consult your employees (through safety representatives, if your organisation has any)
• You must display a Health & Safety Law poster which is available from HSE Books

and you must do whatever is reasonable to achieve this.

As an employee:

• You must take reasonable care for your own and other peoples health and safety at work;
• You must cooperate with your employer
• You must not intentionally or recklessly interfere with or misuse anything provided in the interests of health and safety.