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The Health and Safety at Work etc. Act 1974 (HASAWA), and the Management of Health and Safety at Work Regulations 1999 (MHSWR) lay down some of the main responsibilities and duties of persons at work.

Among the duties HASAWA places on employers are the requirements to ensure the health and safety at work of their employees and that of any other person who may be affected by their activities; and to have a written health and safety policy.

It also places duties on employees to:

(a) take reasonable care of their own health and safety and that of others who may be affected by their “acts or omissions”;

(b) to co-operate with their employer so the latter can comply with his legal duties;

(c) not to interfere or misuse anything provided in the interests of health, safety or welfare.

The main requirements of the Management Regulations are that employers must: assess the risks to the health and safety of anyone who may be affected by their activities; and that adequate arrangements must be in place for the “planning, organisation, control, monitoring and review” of the safety measures that follow from those assessments.
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