We work with businesses to ensure the health and safety and welfare at work of their employees, contractors and visitors.

Duties of Employers

Employers are required to:

• Provide and maintain a working environment;
• Provide and maintain any plant or system of work;
• Ensure that use, handling, storage or transport of articles or substances is safe and without risks to health;
• Ensure that use, handling, storage or transport of articles or substances is safe and without risks to health;
• Provide and maintain adequate facilities and arrangements for the welfare at work of his employees;
• Provide information, instruction, training and supervision as is necessary to ensure the safety and health at work of his employees;
• Ensure that any visitor is not exposed to any risk to his safety or health.

Health and Safety Policy

Every company employing 50 or more employees shall have a Health and Safety policy which shall be reviewed regularly.

The company shall make arrangements to give effect to the policy and shall keep a register of the arrangements made.

Risk Assessment

Every employer shall, within 30 days of the start of operation of his undertaking, make a suitable and sufficient assessment:

(i) of any risk to the safety and health to which any employee is exposed whilst he is at work; and

(ii) any risk to the safety and health of any person not in his employment arising out of or in connection with the conduct by him of his business activity.

The risk assessment shall be reviewed every two years or earlier if they has been a significant change in the matters to which it relates.

An employer employing more than 5 persons has to keep a register of the significant findings of the risk assessment.

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