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1. This is an act to ensure health, safety and welfare in work. All employers and employees have to make sure that all their work is carried out safely and properly. The employers, have to take care of their employees and other people. Employees have the right to think that their employer is doing everything they can to protect them. Although, the employees also have to be responsible for protecting themselves and others.

2. The main purpose of this act is to establish the Food Standards Agency, provide it with functions and powers for the Food Standards Agency so it can make food safe and protect public health. It has powers to mediate at any point in the process of producing and supplying food to ensure that consumers are protected and food is safe.

The European Parliament introduced new powers and penalities relating to food businesses and the british government introduced The General Food Regulations in 2004. This involves that food cannot be sold if it is harmful or unfit for human consumption and it has to be recalled if it does not agree with food safety requirements.

3.This regulation is in place to ensure that the lifting and carrying of heavy objects is done safely. Both employers and employees have a responsibility to ensure that they are abiding with the regulations.

4. This ensures that employers have to control hazardous substances that employees and others may be exposed to at work. Hazardous substances are any products that could pose a risk to health if they are not controlled. This includes, glues, paints, cleaning agents, fumes, dust or bacteria. Warning labels should be showed on packaging to show whether or not the product is subject to COSHH.

5. This allows the Health and Safety Executive and local authorities to identify where and how risks are made. The HSE can then give employers advice on how to reduce injury, illness and accidents at work. Some work-related accidents, diseases and dangerous occurrences must be reported by an employer or self-employed person, and a record must be kept for at least years.

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  • 8 years ago
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    Aren't you supposed to put it into YOUR own words?

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