- Enforced by
- HSENI
- Status
- In Force
- Penalty ceiling
- Imprisonment 9 of 16 obligations carry up to 2 years imprisonment. 2 carry different penalties and 5 have no criminal penalty — flagged in the list below.
Does it bind you?
Business-side roles with duties under this instrument.
Any Person6
Employer3
Self-Employed Person1
Employee1
Plus 5 duties on the regulator, Crown ministers and public bodies — folded into the section list below.
Other Acts binding the same actors
If a role above is yours, these are the other instruments that most often bind it.
Any Person — also bound by 2684 other Acts
Human Medicines Regulations 2012
184 duties
Merchant Shipping Act 1995
144 duties
Insolvency (England and Wales) Rules 2016
104 duties
Communications Act 2003
92 duties
Road Traffic Act 1988
92 duties
Employer — also bound by 701 other Acts
TULRCA 1992
72 duties
Self-Employed Person — also bound by 78 other Acts
Employee — also bound by 193 other Acts
What it requires
Sections 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.
Part 1
INTRODUCTORY
0 of 2 sections shown2 other sections in this Part — procedural and definitional
Part 2
HEALTH, SAFETY AND WELFARE IN CONNECTION WITH WORK, AND CONTROL OF DANGEROUS SUBSTANCES
13 of 49 sections shown
s.004
General duties of employers to their employees (opens in a new tab)
Imprisonment
- Ensure the health, safety and welfare of all employeesEmployer
s.005
General duties of employers and self-employed to persons other than their employees (opens in a new tab)
Imprisonment
- Protect the health and safety of non-employeesSelf-Employed Person
s.006
General duties of persons concerned with premises to persons other than their employees (opens in a new tab)
Imprisonment
- Ensure safety of premises and equipment for non-employeesAny Person
s.007
General duties of manufacturers etc. as regards articles and substances for use at work (opens in a new tab)
Imprisonment
- Ensure safety of equipment and substances supplied for workAny Person
s.008
General duties of employees at work (opens in a new tab)
Imprisonment
- Take reasonable care for health and safety and cooperate with employerEmployee
s.009
Duty not to interfere with or misuse things provided pursuant to certain provisions (opens in a new tab)
Imprisonment
- Do not interfere with or misuse health and safety equipmentAny Person
s.010
Duty not to charge employees for things done or provided pursuant to certain specific requirements (opens in a new tab)
Prosecution
- Do not charge employees for health and safety requirementsEmployer
Unlimited fine
s.011
General duty of the Department concerned (opens in a new tab)
Regulated
Other duties (1) — Crown / regulator
- Government departments must promote health and safety in Northern IrelandCrown / Minister / Government department
s.013
Functions of the Executive (opens in a new tab)
Regulated
Other duties (1) — Crown / regulator
- HSENI must provide health and safety information, advice, and trainingStatutory regulator
s.020
Authorities responsible for enforcement of the relevant statutory provisions (opens in a new tab)
Regulated
Other duties (1) — Crown / regulator
- HSENI and local authorities must arrange for health and safety enforcementStatutory regulator
s.031
Offences (opens in a new tab)
Imprisonment
- Breach of general health and safety duties and regulationsAny Person
s.034
Offences due to fault of other person (opens in a new tab)
Imprisonment
- Cause another person to commit an health and safety offenceAny Person
s.art047
Application of Part to police
Imprisonment
- Personal liability for police health and safety breachesAny Person
36 other sections in this Part — procedural and definitional
s.information communicated by commissioners for reve
Information communicated by Commissioners for Revenue and Customs
s.offences by bodies corporate
Offences by bodies corporate
s.power of customs officer to detain articles and su
Power of customs officer to detain articles and substances
Part 3
THE EMPLOYMENT MEDICAL ADVISORY SERVICE
2 of 4 sections shown
s.048
The employment medical advisory service (opens in a new tab)
Regulated
Other duties (1) — Crown / regulator
- HSENI must maintain an employment medical advisory serviceStatutory regulator
s.050
Supplementary (opens in a new tab)
Regulated
Other duties (1) — Crown / regulator
- DHSS must arrange for transfer of school medical records to health advisersCrown / Minister / Government department
2 other sections in this Part — procedural and definitional
Part 4
MISCELLANEOUS AND GENERAL
0 of 5 sections shown5 other sections in this Part — procedural and definitional
s.paragraph/p5
Art. 52 rep. by 2004 c. 17
s.paragraph/p6
Art.56(1), with Schedule 6, effects amendments; para.(2), with Schedule 7,...
Schedules
Schedules
1 of 51 shown
s.sch003a
OFFENCES: MODE OF TRIAL AND MAXIMUM PENALTY
Imprisonment
- Breach of general health and safety duties to employees and othersEmployer
50 other schedules
s.sch001
The provisions of the Acts mentioned in the following table which are specified in the...
s.sch001
The provisions of any regulations, orders or other instruments of a legislative character made or...
s.sch001
The provisions of— (a) the Explosives Act 1875, and (b) the Explosives Act (Northern Ireland)...
s.sch002
The Executive shall be a body corporate to which, subject...
s.sch002
A person authorised in writing in that behalf by the...
s.sch002
The validity of any proceedings of the Executive shall not...
s.sch002
The fixing of the common seal of the Executive shall...
s.sch002
A document purporting to be duly executed under the common...
s.sch002
Any contract or instrument which, if entered into or executed...
s.sch002
(1) Subject to sub-paragraph (2), the Executive with the approval...
s.sch002
The Executive may authorise any member of the Executive or...
s.sch002
The Executive with the consent of the Department concerned may...
s.sch002
(1) The Executive shall prepare in respect of the period...
s.sch002
(1) The Executive shall— (a) keep proper accounts and proper...
s.sch002
Persons may be appointed as whole-time or part-time members of...
s.sch002
Subject to paragraphs 5 and 6 a person shall hold...
s.sch002
A person may at any time resign office as chairman,...
s.sch002
(1) The Head of the Department may at any time...
s.sch002
Past service as chairman, deputy chairman or member of the...
s.sch002
The Department may pay or make such payments towards the...
s.sch002
The Executive may regulate its own procedure and business including...
s.sch003
(1) Regulating or prohibiting— (a) the manufacture, supply or use of any plant; (b) the...
s.sch003
Imposing requirements with respect to the provision and use in specified circumstances of protective clothing...
s.sch003
Requiring in specified circumstances the taking of specified precautions in connection with the risk of...
s.sch003
(1) Prohibiting or imposing requirements in connection with the emission within any premises of any...
s.sch003
Imposing requirements with respect to the instruction, training and supervision of persons at work.
s.sch003
(1) Requiring, in specified circumstances, specified matters to be notified in a specified manner to...
s.sch003
Imposing requirements with respect to the keeping and preservation of records and other documents, including...
s.sch003
Imposing requirements with respect to the management of animals.
s.sch003
The following purposes as regards premises of any specified description where persons work, namely— (a)...
s.sch003
Conferring, in specified circumstances involving a risk of fire or explosion, power to search a...
s.sch003
Restricting, prohibiting or requiring the doing of any specified thing where any accident or other...
s.sch003
(1) Prohibiting or regulating the transport of articles or substances of any specified description. (2)...
s.sch003
As regards cases of any specified class, being a class such that the variety in...
s.sch003
Conferring on any district council power to make byelaws with respect to any specified matter,...
s.sch003
(1) In this Schedule “specified” means specified in health and safety regulations. (2) Any mention...
s.sch003
(1) Prohibiting the carrying on of any specified activity or the doing of any specified...
s.sch003
Requiring any person, premises or thing to be registered in any specified circumstances or as...
s.sch003
(1) Requiring, in specified circumstances, the appointment (whether in a specified capacity or not) of...
s.sch003
Regulating or prohibiting in specified circumstances the employment of persons.
s.sch003
(1) Requiring the making of arrangements for securing the health of persons at work or...
s.sch003
Imposing requirements with respect to any matter affecting the conditions in which persons work, including...
s.sch003
Securing the provision of specified welfare facilities for persons at work, including in particular such...
s.sch003a
The mode of trial and maximum penalty applicable to each offence listed in the first...
s.sch005
Where, at the commencement of this Schedule, a person's employment is unlawful under section 74(2)...
s.schedule/2/part/1/paragraph/wrapper1n2
Para.2 rep by 1998 NI 18
Help complying
Guvnor’s practical routes through this instrument.
Starting a business in Northern Ireland
Complete guide to NI-specific requirements when starting a business. Covers devolved differences in employment law, business rates, planning, health and safety, and …
Check the rules that apply in Northern Ireland
Quick checklist of key Northern Ireland differences from Great Britain. Check employment law, health and safety, planning, business rates, and equality obligations …
Responding to an HSENI investigation
What to do when the Health and Safety Executive for Northern Ireland contacts you. Covers enforcement notices, RIDDOR NI reporting, compliance gaps, …
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, …
Northern Ireland workplace safety quick check
Quick checklist for employers in Northern Ireland to verify HSENI compliance. Covers risk assessments, employers' liability insurance, RIDDOR NI reporting, competent person …
Construction safety under CDM (NI) 2016
Construction projects in Northern Ireland come under CDM (NI) 2016, which mirrors the GB regulations but is enforced by HSENI. Send an …
Farm safety duties in Northern Ireland
Northern Ireland has the UK's highest farm fatality rate, and farms are HSENI's top enforcement priority. The main killers are falls from …
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 …
How doing business in Northern Ireland differs from Great Britain
Northern Ireland has its own laws and regulators for employment, equality, planning, health and safety and more, so GB businesses cannot assume …
Report a workplace accident or incident to HSENI (RIDDOR NI)
In Northern Ireland, RIDDOR (NI) 1997 requires you to report a work injury that stops someone doing their normal work for more …
Respond to HSENI enforcement action
If HSENI or a district council serves your business with an improvement or prohibition notice, you can appeal to an industrial tribunal …
2 more guides that reference this instrument
Connected legislation
Instruments made under this Act. They carry the detail the Act delegates.
The Control of Asbestos in Water (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1996
SI 1996
Northern Ireland Statutory Rule
The Control of Asbestos in Water Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1995
SI 1995
Northern Ireland Statutory Rule
Duty extraction and severity labels are Guvnor’s analysis of the instrument, not the instrument itself. Always verify against the linked source text.