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Stoker, I completely agree that it may be in an individual company's policy to heve risk assessments signed, it is however not a legal requirement under the management regs themselves, only that significant findings are recorded. The HSE suggest that risk assessment is undertaken as a team exercise ...

Yup,
Janie is dead right, the law says record if you employ 5 or you have to record the findings, nothing about having it signed.
Otto

I believe that it would come under section 3 of the HASAW, duties to persons not in their employment. The neighbour principle certainly applies in hospitals, where in the course of your employment someone is affected by your actions or omissions, eg patients, colleagues, contractors, emergency servi...

CDM is applicable for domestic clients, if there is an agreement with a developer and over 5 people are working on site then CDM applies but is not notifiable. If there is no arrangement with a developer, only regulations 7 (notification) and regulation 13 (designer duties) apply. If dismantling or ...

I would say, (with refernce to HSG65 pp17) that the four Cs are what you are looking for:
control (within the organisation)
co-operation (between individuals)
communication (throughout the organisation)
competence (of individuals)

hope this helps
Otto

Don't forget that all night workers need to have health monitoring by law (working time). A big one to look at with this one will be lighting, and how it affects people/vehicle interfaces. The question infers a production facility/factory and as such there will delivery lorries, forklifts etc. Anoth...

My favorites are:

POP MR A

Policy, Organising , Planning (and Implementation), Monitor, Review and Audit

and
ERIC PD (prevents death)

Eliminate, Reduce, Isolate, Control, PPE and Discipline

All the best
Otto

Jack, many parts of the government have now lost crown immunity, a recent case in point being the military/MOD. Check out 2 recent civil cases, the paras who have just been sued for shooting the kosovans, and the widow of the SAS man who was killed in Sierra Leone who succesfully sued the secretary ...

My opinion (for what it's worth) is that training gives you the underpinning knowledge to allow you to become competent in your chosen field. The best analagy I have seen is that training is like a sword, I'll still be able to inflict damage with a blunt sword (training but no experience) however, w...

As Janie said section 37 allows for prosecution of directors, however I would refer you to section 36 which allows for prosecution of individuals if the offence is down to the "wrongdoing" of that person. So supervisors/management/advisors are also liable. reference the case of "dange...