A Few Regulations

The Health and Safety at Work Act 1974 (sections 2,3,4)

Puts a duty of care upon both employer and employee to ensure the safety of all persons using the work place.

Electricity At Work Regulations 1989 (EWR)

State:

REGULATION 4(2)

“As may be necessary to prevent danger, all systems shall be maintained so as to prevent,
so far as is reasonable practicable, such danger”.

REGULATION 2 (1)

“Electrical equipment includes anything used, intended to be used or installed for use to
generate, provide, transmit, transform, rectify, convert, conduct, distribute, control, store,
measure or use electrical energy”.

The Management of Health and Safety at Work Regulations 1999

State:

“Every employer shall make suitable and sufficient assessment of:

• the risks to the health and safety of his employees to which they are exposed whilst they are at work, and
• the risks to the health and safety of persons not in his employment arising out of or in connection with the conduct by him of his undertaking”. (Regulation 3(1))

The Provision and Use of Work Equipment Regulations 1998
State:

“Every employer shall ensure that work equipment is so constructed or adapted as to be
suitable for the purpose for which it is used or provided”.

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