The History of Health and Safety Legislation in the UK

Management of health and safety at work (1999): This regulation was made to renew/reinforce the Heath and Safety at work act (1974). It is set out to employers to assess the risks on the other employees and other people there and how they can manage the risk in a working place. The people that are working should work safely in accordance with their training and instructions given to them.

Describe how current health and safety legislation, policies and procedures are implemented in the setting.

I selected the article “Duty to Warn and Protect: Not in Texas” for review, as it applies to the state in which I reside. The article cites Texas Health and Safety Codes, based on a 1999 Texas Supreme Court ruling that states counselors do not have a duty to warn or protect. Having a duty to warn and protect is defined as protecting clients or others from perceived harm (Jackson-Cherry & Erford, 2014). An example would be that a client tells their counselor in a confidential session that he is considering stabbing his ex-girlfriend. The duty to warn would mean the counselor should notify authorities and the ex-girlfriend thus breaking confidentiality. The duty to protect would be to admit client to a facility for the client to be assessed for a propensity for violence towards the ex-girlfriend. This became important after a 1969 incident where a counselor, had a client expressed harm towards a girl and the counselor contacted the authorities, yet never contacted the girl, who was subsequently killed by the client a few months later, known as the Tarasoff v. Regents of the University of California case (Jackson-Cherry & Erford, 2014).

Training should be given in such a way that hazardous situations can be avoided. For example: Lengthening of working day, removal of taking screening breaks etc for meeting deadlines should be avoided. You must ensure that the significant hazards are identified, and that the actual working practices are addressed and if need be, changed so as to reduce any risk. This is both the responsibility of the employer and employee, for example it is the employees responsibility to familiarise themselves with the hazards and risks in their workplace.

Each childminder will be registered and inspected with Ofsted to ensure that they are able to demonstrate the quality and standards of care required by Ofsted, the Early Years Foundation Stage and the NCMA.  Each childminder must ensure that they provide high quality childcare, within a positive, safe and happy environment.  Childminders are responsible for planning and preparing a programme of play based activities and in the completion of all relevant record keeping, paperwork and administration.

It is important to protect the employee from dangerous parts of the machinery so they won’t hurt themselves or even lose some

Hi Jeffrey, I think you make some amazingly good points, and I can say I whole-heartedly agree with them for individual citizens. I might have been unclear, but I wanted to try and look at this question from the standpoint of individuals in the business world. Do you feel that safety legislation is out of place in that context? I would be very interested to hear your thoughts on that.

At the Riverglade House my supervisor asked me to check the procedures and policies relating to health safety and security to see how they link to guidelines and regulations.

Statute law also deals with nuisances. The Public Health and Wellbeing Act 2008 (Vic) (“PHWA“) applies to any nuisances that are, or may be, dangerous to health or expressly provides that a nuisance includes any noise that is or is liable to be dangerous to health or noxious, annoying or injurious to personal comfort.

M1- Asses the implications of health and safety and security legislation and regulations for a business role in a work place.

Explain the key roles and responsibilities of the main contractor’s personnel during both the design phase and the operational phase of the project.

It is important that the client engages a project manager to supervise the works, to report

The following report answers questions on design deficiencies. It will describe three design disasters and examine the causes of the disaster and the impact they had on future designs. It will then discuss a “design and layout” case study and the setting up of a contractor management system for a site expansion.

Many times, risks faced by contractors exist at no fault of their own. That is, in some cases the contractor is bound by a design that places specific hazards on the construction site. Designers who are cognizant of and responsive to their effort on construction safety would aid in making jobsites safer for construction workers (Gambatese et al, 1997). Situations such as these led the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health to create a safe design concept, prevention through design. Prevention

Many actors have carry out their work in this stage and each of them have relationship related between them when doing their task. In this stage, the architect have to negotiate with the contractors in order to solve the problems which occurred in the construction project. Constructing hotel is a big project so the architect have to negotiate with the contractor in order to get the best solution to solve the problem.