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- Repealed
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Business-side roles with duties under this instrument.
Responsible Person4
Employer2
Any Person1
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92 duties
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92 duties
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
Notification and reporting of injuries and dangerous occurrences (opens in a new tab)
Regulated
- Report serious workplace accidents, injuries, and dangerous occurrencesResponsible Person
s.004
Reporting of the death of an employee (opens in a new tab)
Regulated
- Report the death of an employee resulting from a workplace accidentEmployer
s.005
Reporting of cases of disease (opens in a new tab)
Regulated
- Report cases of occupational disease to the HSEResponsible Person
s.007
Records
Regulated
- Keep records of workplace accidents, injuries, and diseasesResponsible Person
s.009
Additional provisions relating to offshore workplaces
Regulated
- Comply with additional health and safety rules for offshore workplacesEmployer
16 other provisions — procedural and definitional
s.001
Citation and commencement
s.002
Interpretation
s.003
Notification and reporting of injuries and dangerous occurrences
s.004
Reporting of the death of an employee
s.005
Reporting of cases of disease
s.006
Reporting of gas incidents
s.008
Additional provisions relating to mines and quarries
s.010
Restrictions on the application of regulations 3, 4 and 5
s.011
Defence in proceedings for an offence contravening these Regulations
s.012
Extension outside Great Britain
s.013
Certificates of exemption
s.014
Repeal and amendment of provisions in the Regulation of Railways Act 1871, the Railway Employment (Prevention of Accidents) Act 1900 and the Transport and Works Act 1992
s.015
Revocations, amendments and savings
Schedules
Schedules
2 of 135 shown
s.sch005
ADDITIONAL PROVISIONS RELATING TO MINES AND QUARRIES (opens in a new tab)
Regulated
- Protect the scene and report serious incidents at mines and quarriesResponsible Person
s.sch006
ADDITIONAL PROVISIONS RELATING TO OFFSHORE WORKPLACES (opens in a new tab)
Regulated
- Do not disturb the scene of a major offshore accidentAny Person
133 other schedules
s.sch001
MAJOR INJURIES (opens in a new tab)
s.sch001
Any fracture, other than to the fingers, thumbs or toes....
s.sch001
Acute illness which requires medical treatment where there is reason...
s.sch001
Any amputation.
s.sch001
Dislocation of the shoulder, hip, knee or spine.
s.sch001
Loss of sight (whether temporary or permanent).
s.sch001
A chemical or hot metal burn to the eye or...
s.sch001
Any injury resulting from an electric shock or electrical burn...
s.sch001
Any other injury— (a) leading to hypothermia, heat-induced illness or...
s.sch001
Loss of consciousness caused by asphyxia or by exposure to...
s.sch001
Either of the following conditions which result from the absorption...
s.sch002
Lifting machinery, etc.
s.sch002
Diving operations
s.sch002
Collapse of scaffolding
s.sch002
Train collisions
s.sch002
Wells
s.sch002
Pipelines or pipeline works
s.sch002
Fairground equipment
s.sch002
Carriage of dangerous substances by road
s.sch002
(1) Any incident involving a vehicle used for the carriage...
s.sch002
Collapse of building or structure
s.sch002
Explosion or fire
s.sch002
Pressure systems
s.sch002
Escape of flammable substances
s.sch002
Escape of substances
s.sch002
Fire or ignition of gas
s.sch002
The accidental ignition of any gas in part of a...
s.sch002
The outbreak of any fire below ground.
s.sch002
An incident where any person in consequence of any smoke...
s.sch002
The outbreak of any fire on the surface which endangers...
s.sch002
Escape of gas
s.sch002
Failure of plant or equipment
s.sch002
The breakage or unintentional uncoupling of any rope, chain, coupling,...
s.sch002
Freight containers
s.sch002
An incident where any conveyance being used for the carriage...
s.sch002
The stoppage of any ventilating apparatus (other than an auxiliary...
s.sch002
The collapse of any headframe, winding engine house, fan house...
s.sch002
Breathing apparatus
s.sch002
Injury by explosion of blasting material etc.
s.sch002
Use of emergency escape apparatus
s.sch002
Inrush of gas or water
s.sch002
Any inrush of water or material which flows when wet...
s.sch002
Insecure tip
s.sch002
Locomotives
s.sch002
Overhead electric lines
s.sch002
Falls of ground
s.sch002
Collapse of storage bunkers
s.sch002
Sinking of craft
s.sch002
Injuries
s.sch002
Projection of substances outside quarry
s.sch002
Misfires
s.sch002
Insecure tips
s.sch002
Movement of slopes or faces
s.sch002
Explosions or fires in vehicles or plant
s.sch002
Accidents to passenger trains
s.sch002
Electrical short circuit
s.sch002
Any case where a passenger train or any part of...
s.sch002
Accidents not involving passenger trains
s.sch002
Any derailment, of a train other than a passenger train,...
s.sch002
Any derailment, of a train other than a passenger train,...
s.sch002
Accidents involving any kind of train
s.sch002
Any case of a train striking any cattle or horse,...
s.sch002
Any case of a train on a running line striking...
s.sch002
Any case of a train, other than one on a...
s.sch002
Any case of a passenger train, or any other train...
s.sch002
(1) Any of the following classes of accident which occurs...
s.sch002
Explosives
s.sch002
Accidents and incidents at level crossings
s.sch002
Any case of a train running onto a level crossing...
s.sch002
A failure of the equipment at a level crossing which...
s.sch002
Accidents involving the permanent way and other works on or connected with a relevant transport system
s.sch002
A buckle of a running line which necessitates an immediate...
s.sch002
Any case of an aircraft or a vehicle of any...
s.sch002
The runaway of an escalator, lift or passenger conveyor.
s.sch002
Any fire or severe arcing or fusing which seriously affects...
s.sch002
Any fire affecting the permanent way or works of a...
s.sch002
Any other fire which causes damage which has the potential...
s.sch002
Biological agents
s.sch002
Accidents involving failure of the works on or connected with a relevant transport system
s.sch002
Incidents of serious congestion
s.sch002
Incidents of signals passed without authority
s.sch002
Release of petroleum hydrocarbon
s.sch002
Fire or explosion
s.sch002
Release or escape of dangerous substances
s.sch002
Collapses
s.sch002
Dangerous occurrences
s.sch002
Collisions
s.sch002
Any occurrence with the potential for a collision between a...
s.sch002
Malfunction of radiation generators, etc.
s.sch002
Subsidence or collapse of seabed
s.sch002
Loss of stability or buoyancy
s.sch002
Evacuation
s.sch002
Falls into water
s.sch002
Breathing apparatus
s.sch003
Chickenpox.
s.sch003
Cholera.
s.sch003
Diphtheria.
s.sch003
Dysentery (amoebic or bacillary).
s.sch003
Acute encephalitis.
s.sch003
Erysipelas.
s.sch003
Food poisoning.
s.sch003
Legionellosis.
s.sch003
Malaria.
s.sch003
Measles.
s.sch003
Meningitis.
s.sch003
Meningococcal septicaemia (without meningitis).
s.sch003
Mumps.
s.sch003
Paratyphoid fever.
s.sch003
Plague.
s.sch003
Acute poliomyelitis.
s.sch003
Rabies.
s.sch003
Rubella.
s.sch003
Scarlet fever.
s.sch003
Tetanus.
s.sch003
Tuberculosis.
s.sch003
Typhoid fever.
s.sch003
Typhus.
s.sch003
Viral haemorrhagic fevers.
s.sch003
Viral hepatitis.
s.sch004
RECORDS (opens in a new tab)
s.sch004
The method by which the event was reported.
s.sch005
In this Schedule, unless the context otherwise requires— “appropriate person”...
s.sch005
Where at a mine or a quarry any person, as...
s.sch005
Where there is a non-fatal injury to any person at...
s.sch005
(1) Where there is an accident or dangerous occurrence in...
s.sch005
The record kept under regulation 7, excluding any health record...
s.sch006
Disturbance of site
s.sch008
REVOCATIONS (opens in a new tab)
s.sch008
In regulations 3(4)(c) and 7(5)(b) of the Mines (Safety of...
s.sch008
In regulation 17(6) of the Offshore Installations (Safety Representatives and...
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