Northern Ireland Statutory Rule SI 2000 Northern Ireland

Management of Health and Safety at Work Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2000

These Regulations re-enact the Management of Health and Safety at Work Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1992, as amended, with modifications. A new regulation 4 requires an employer to implement preventive and protective measures on the basis of general principles set out in Article 6(2)(a) to (i) of Council Directive 89/391/EEC (“the …

Enforced by
HSENI
Status
Amended (in force with amendments)
Penalty ceiling
Regulated

Does it bind you?

Business-side roles with duties under this instrument.

Employer12 Self-Employed Person3 Employee1

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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.

s.003 Risk assessment (opens in a new tab) Regulated
  • Assess and record workplace health and safety risksSelf-Employed Person
s.004 Principles of prevention to be applied (opens in a new tab) Regulated
  • Apply principles of prevention to health and safety measuresEmployer
s.005 Health and safety arrangements (opens in a new tab) Regulated
  • Establish and record health and safety management arrangementsEmployer
s.006 Health surveillance (opens in a new tab) Regulated
  • Provide health surveillance for employees based on risk assessmentEmployer
s.007 Health and safety assistance (opens in a new tab) Regulated
  • Appoint competent health and safety assistanceEmployer
s.008 Procedures for serious and imminent danger and for danger areas (opens in a new tab) Regulated
  • Establish emergency procedures and appoint evacuation marshalsEmployer
s.009 Contacts with external services (opens in a new tab) Regulated
  • Arrange contacts with external emergency servicesEmployer
s.010 Information for employees (opens in a new tab) Regulated
  • Provide health and safety information to employees and parents of childrenEmployer
s.011 Co-operation and co-ordination (opens in a new tab) Regulated
  • Cooperate and coordinate health and safety in shared workplacesEmployer
s.012 Persons working in host employers' or self-employed persons' undertakings (opens in a new tab) Regulated
  • Provide health and safety information to host employers and non-employeesSelf-Employed Person
s.013 Capabilities and training (opens in a new tab) Regulated
  • Assess employee capabilities and provide health and safety trainingEmployer
s.014 Employees' duties (opens in a new tab) Regulated
  • Employees must use equipment safely and report hazardsEmployee
s.015 Temporary workers (opens in a new tab) Regulated
  • Provide health and safety information to temporary and agency workersSelf-Employed Person
s.016 Risk assessment in respect of new or expectant mothers (opens in a new tab) Regulated
  • Assess and manage risks to new or expectant mothersEmployer
s.017 Certificate from a registered medical practitioner or a registered midwife in respect of new or expectant mothers (opens in a new tab) Regulated
  • Suspend night-working new or expectant mothers if medically necessaryEmployer
s.019 Protection of young persons (opens in a new tab) Regulated
  • Protect young persons from workplace risksEmployer
16 other provisions — procedural and definitional
s.016 Alteration of working conditions in respect of new or expectant mothers (agency workers)
s.017 Certificate from registered medical practitioner in respect of new or expectant mothers (agency workers)
s.018 Notification by new or expectant mothers (agency workers)
s.018 Agency workers: general provisions
Schedules

Schedules

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s.sch002 Wells
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s.sch002 Mines
s.sch002 Other activities

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