- Status
- In Force
- Penalty ceiling
- Imprisonment 17 of 19 obligations carry up to 2 years imprisonment. 2 have no criminal penalty — flagged in the list below.
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.
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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
- Protect agency workers who are new or expectant mothersAny Person
- Assess and manage risks to new or expectant mothersEmployer
- Notify agency and end placement if a pregnant worker cannot work nightsClient
- Suspend night-working new or expectant mothers if medically necessaryEmployer
- Protect young persons from workplace risksEmployer
- You cannot contract out of liability for new or expectant mothersEmployer
16 other provisions — procedural and definitional
Schedules
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Help complying
Guvnor’s practical routes through this instrument.
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Meet workplace health and safety requirements
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Health and safety compliance checklist
Quick compliance checklist for experienced employers to verify they meet core HSE requirements. Covers legal duties, risk assessment, first aid, accident reporting, …
Building compliance for new property owners
Comprehensive guide to understanding and meeting your legal obligations for building safety, maintenance, and energy performance when you acquire commercial premises.
Appoint a competent person for health and safety
From your first employee, you must appoint at least one competent person to help you meet your health and safety duties. In …
Carry out a workplace risk assessment
Every employer must make a suitable and sufficient assessment of the risks its work poses to employees and anyone else affected, act …
Comply with COSHH regulations for hazardous substances
Under the COSHH Regulations 2002 you must prevent or adequately control your employees' exposure to hazardous substances. Assess each substance before work …
Employ young people safely
Before you employ anyone under 18 you must carry out a specific risk assessment, keep them off work that is beyond them …
Establish emergency procedures for your workplace
Every employer must set procedures for any serious and imminent danger, not just fire, and nominate enough competent people to lead an …
Health and safety in shared workplaces
If you share a workplace with other employers, even for a short time while contractors are on site, you must cooperate with …
Keep children safe on farms
Children under 13 must never ride on or drive a tractor, self-propelled farm machine or ATV at work, and the law does …
Keep lone workers safe
You must manage the health and safety risks to anyone who works alone for you, including self-employed contractors and people working from …
33 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.