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Defines employers’ responsibilities to protect health, safety and welfare of the staff and members of the public.

Aims to reduce the number and severity of accidents in the workplace, through assessment and management of risk.

Requirement for employers to control substances hazardous to health by reducing or preventing employees’ being exposed to these substances.

Employers have a legal duty to protect the health and safety of their employees through the provision of appropriate personal protective equipment.

places a legal duty on employers, self-employed people, and people in control of premises to report when there has been an accident which has caused injury.

Imposes duties on landowners and occupiers to keep specified land clear of litter, keep public areas clean.

Used to provide an effective system of control for wastes that are dangerous and have specific requirements placed on their handling.

A regulatory framework that governs the management and disposal of hazardous waste in England and wales

To reduce the amount of waste electrical and electronic equipment that ends up in landfill or incinerated.

Legislates a minimum fire safety standard for all non-domestic building and defines who is responsible for compliance.

Avoid hazardous manual handling operations as far as is reasonably practicable and assess and hazardous manual handling operations that cannot be avoidable.

To ensure that workplaces meet the health, safety and welfare needs of all members of a workforce, including people with disabilities.

Identify hazards

Identify hazards

1-identify hazards 2-Assess the risks 3-control the risks 4-record findings 5- review controls

Potential consequences

To reduce or remove identified risks

Everywhere not just workplaces

An assessment to identify what could go wrong, how severe it could be and what we can do to prevent it from happening

Anything with the potential to cause harm

The likelihood of harm occurring as a result of exposure to a hazard