Task: 1.

1
a)
Employers: It is an employer's duty to protect the health, safety and welfare of their employees
and other people who might be affected by their business. Employers must do whatever is
reasonably practicable to achieve this. Employers must consult employees on health and
safety issues.

Responsibilities of employers:
 Risk assessment
 Put in plans to deal with risk
 Provide adequate first aid facilities
 Precautions against flammable or expose hazards, noise or rotation
 Protective cloths and equipment
 Employers must give you information about the risks in employee’s workplace and how
you are protected also instruct and train you on how to deal with the risks.
 Employers must consult employees on health and safety issues. Consultation must be
either direct or through a safety representative that is either elected by the workforce or
appointed by a trade union.

Duties of employers:
 keep temperature at a comfortable level
 make sure workplace is properly ventilated
 keep the workplace equipment’s clean
 let employees take rest and brakes
 Provide alternatives exits, stairway for emergency.
 provide and maintain safe plant and systems of work
 ensure that the use, handling, storage & transport of plant and substances like chemicals
is safe & without risks to health
 ensure that the workplace under his control is safe and without risks to health
 Provide adequate facilities like washrooms, toilets, lockers, dining areas, first aid, etc.
 Provide as much information, instruction, training and supervision to the workers so that
they can work safely, etc.

Employees: the duties employees (workers) have under the 2004 Act are basically the same as
under the earlier 1985 Act.  The one difference is that workers, like employers and other parties,
can now be charged under the new offence of 'reckless endangerment'.  For more information on
this, see the page on Reckless Endangerment in this section. 

Responsibilities of employees

 to take reasonable care of employees own health and safety

 if possible to avoid wearing jewelry or loose clothing if operating machinery
 if you have long hair, or wear a headscarf, make sure it's tucked out of the way as it could
get caught in machinery
 to take reasonable care not to put other people - fellow employees and members of the
public - at risk by what you do or don't do in the course of employees work
 to co-operate with employees employer, making sure you get proper training and you
understand and follow the company's health and safety policies
 not to interfere with or misuse anything that's been provided for employees health, safety
or welfare
 to report any injuries, strains or illnesses you suffer as a result of doing employees job,
employees employer may need to change the way you work

Duties of employees:

 take reasonable care of the health and safety of themselves and of others who may be
affected by what they do or do not do
 cooperate with the employer on health and safety matters
 not misuse any equipment that is provided for safety purposes
 follow instructions from the employer on health and safety matters and attend relevant
health and safety training
 Report hazards and defects observed in the workplace.
 take reasonable care for their own health and safety
 take reasonable care for the health and safety of others who may affected by their acts or
omissions
 cooperate with anything the employer does to comply with OHS requirements 
 Not 'intentionally or recklessly interfere with or misuse' anything provided at the
workplace for OHS.
Health and Safety Executive (HSE):
The foundations of the organization can be dated back to the 1800s when the HM Factory
Inspectorate, Mines Inspectorate and Quarry Inspectorates were formed. But it was on 1
January 1975 that the Health and Safety Executive was officially established, led by its first
Director General, John Lock. The organization came into being the year after the publication
of the Health and Safety at Work etc. Act 1974.
Responsibilities and duties of HSE:
 Regular monitoring health and safety risks and hazards in workplace.
 Properly ensure the first aid and nursing duties.
 Properly ensure the business is legally compliant with health and safety legislation.
 Advise the employees on how to minimize or prevent hazards in workplace.
 Making a health & safety policies.

 Properly ensure the health and safety inspection

Those are the responsibilities of duties and roles of the Health and safety Executive.

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