Duties of employers and employees
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Both employers and employees have a number of duties and responsibilities that they must meet to protect themselves and others.
As an employer
- You are responsible for seeing that your business is run so that risks to health and safety are properly controlled and that proper provision for employees welfare is made;
- It is your duty to protect the health and safety of your employees and other people who might be affected by what you do;
- You are obliged to consult your employees (through safety representatives, if your organisation has any)
- You must display a Health & Safety Law poster which is available from HSE Books
- and you must do whatever is reasonable to achieve this.
As an employee
- You must take reasonable care for your own and other peoples health and safety at work;
- You must cooperate with your employer
- You must not intentionally or recklessly interfere with or misuse anything provided in the interests of health and safety.
Last updated: 9 April 2009