- 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 701 other Acts
Self-Employed Person — also bound by 78 other Acts
Employee — also bound by 193 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.
MHSWR 1999 quick compliance audit
Rapid compliance check covering all key MHSWR 1999 duties. Verify your risk assessment, competent person, emergency procedures, information, training, and vulnerable worker …
Starting a regulated business in Northern Ireland
A guided learning path for businesses in Northern Ireland that operate in regulated sectors. Covers the three key NI-specific regulators — HSENI, …
How HSENI regulates workplace safety in Northern Ireland
Northern Ireland runs its own workplace health and safety system under the Health and Safety at Work (Northern Ireland) Order 1978. HSENI …
5 more guides 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.