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Document ID (ISN)77739
CIS number 01-1675
Year 2001
Convention or series no. HSE Booklet INDG345
Author(s)
Health and Safety Executive
Title Health and safety training - What you need to know
Bibliographic information HSE Books, P.O. Box 1999, Sudbury, Suffolk CO10 2WA, United Kingdom, Oct. 2001. 11p. 2 ref.
Abstract United Kingdom law requires that employers provide whatever information, instruction and training needed to ensure, so far as reasonably practicable, the safety and health of employees. Contents of this guidance note aimed at employers: categories of workers who require safety and health training; five steps of a training programme (defining needs, defining priorities, choosing methods and resources, delivering the training and checking the effectiveness of the training); legislation; provisions applicable to self-employed contract workers.
Descriptors (primary) responsibilities of employers; safety and health training; plant safety and health organization; United Kingdom
Descriptors (secondary) health programmes; training course; subcontractors; legislation; safety programmes
Document type F - Information notes, codes of practice, standards
Country / State or ProvinceUnited Kingdom
Subject(s) Generalities
Broad subject area(s) General safety, health and conditions of work
Browse category(ies) OSH training