- Enforced by
- HSENI
- Status
- Amended (in force with amendments)
- Penalty ceiling
- Regulated
Does it bind you?
Business-side roles with duties under this instrument.
Other Acts binding the same actors
If a role above is yours, these are the other instruments that most often bind it.
Employer — also bound by 682 other Acts
Self-Employed Person — also bound by 80 other Acts
Employee — also bound by 189 other Acts
What it requires
Regulations creating concrete business duties or carrying penalties, grouped as the instrument is structured. Titles link to the source text — blue means you’re leaving for legislation.gov.uk.
- Assess and record workplace health and safety risksSelf-Employed Person
- Apply principles of prevention to health and safety measuresEmployer
- Establish and record health and safety management arrangementsEmployer
- Provide health surveillance for employees based on risk assessmentEmployer
- Appoint competent health and safety assistanceEmployer
- Establish emergency procedures and appoint evacuation marshalsEmployer
- Arrange contacts with external emergency servicesEmployer
- Provide health and safety information to employees and parents of childrenEmployer
- Cooperate and coordinate health and safety in shared workplacesEmployer
- Provide health and safety information to host employers and non-employeesSelf-Employed Person
- Assess employee capabilities and provide health and safety trainingEmployer
- Employees must use equipment safely and report hazardsEmployee
- Provide health and safety information to temporary and agency workersSelf-Employed Person
- Assess and manage risks to new or expectant mothersEmployer
- Suspend night-working new or expectant mothers if medically necessaryEmployer
- Protect young persons from workplace risksEmployer
16 other provisions — procedural and definitional
Schedules
0 of 9 shown9 other schedules
Help complying
Guvnor’s practical routes through this instrument.
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1 more guide that reference this instrument
Duty extraction and severity labels are Guvnor’s analysis of the instrument, not the instrument itself. Always verify against the linked source text.