The Health & Safety Manager’s Yearbook, 1997 3rd edition

The need for accurate information in health and safety matters is of crucial importance to employers, especially in the current climate of aggressive litigation concerning matters that a few years ago would have been taken as one of those unfortunate downturns in life that the gods inflict on humans in their idle moments. Now, there has to be somebody to blame and hopefully sue. Employers have legal obligations to their employees, but they also need to protect themselves. The terms of the Health and Safety at Work Act 1974 specify that employers must not only produce a health and safety...