Health and Safety at Work Essentials (6th ed.)

Every workplace has to comply with an extensive range of health and safety rules and regulations.

In the last 30 years, the obligations and duties placed upon employers in this complex area have ballooned.

With more legal claims being made daily, the price for failing to comply, whether through fines or claims by employees, can be high.

This is a handy 'one-stop' guide for anyone responsible for health and safety issues in the workplace.

Revised and updated for this sixth edition, it sets out the background legal essentials and provides succinct, practical advice on what measures to take.

This guide covers: your legal obligations under the Health and Safety at Work Act; preparing your own health and safety policy document; what to do when an accident occurs; how to produce your own risk assessment; dangers of manual handling and VDU work; health surveillance; insurance provisions; emergency procedures; and, how to defend against Health and Safety Executive prosecutions.