| Document ID (ISN) | 65960 |
| CIS number |
96-131 |
| ISBN(s) |
1-85953-020-6 |
| Year |
1995 |
| Convention or series no. |
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| Author(s) |
Falconer E. |
| Title |
How to handle a health and safety inspection - When the health and safety inspector calls |
| Bibliographic information |
Technical Publications (Publishing) Ltd., P.O. Box 6, Hitchin SG5 2DB, Hertfordshire, United Kingdom, 1995. viii, 53p. 16 ref. |
| Abstract |
This report provides guidance for managers, employers and the self-employed on the legal requirements for workplace inspection. Contents: outline of the United Kingdom Health and Safety at Work Act 1974 and how the requirements are enforced; role of the manager (health and safety policy, risk assessment); role of inspectors (enforcing authorities, powers of inspectors, enforcement statistics); planned inspections (frequency of inspections, what the inspector is looking for); accident investigation and other visits (reporting of accidents and diseases). |
| Descriptors (primary) |
United Kingdom; enforcement; inspection; legislation |
| Descriptors (secondary) |
labour inspectors; hazard evaluation; role of management; notification of accidents and diseases; role of labour inspection; accident investigation |
| Document type |
E - Books, reports, proceedings |
| Country / State or Province | United Kingdom |
| Subject(s) |
Administration, legislation
|
| Broad subject area(s) |
General safety, health and conditions of work
|
| Browse category(ies) |
Labour inspection
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