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History of Health & Safety in the Workplace
Law to protect workers developed throughout the 19th Century along with the Industrial Revolution. Conditions at work were often deplorable with women and children employed alongside men in heavy industry, mining, unguarded machinery and so on. Accidents were horrific and disabling illnesses such as breathing difficulties, deafness etc were largely accepted as a result of a lifetime (usually short) spent in a particular industry.
Enlightened employers and reformers such as Lord Shaftsbury and Charles Dickens tried to bring these matters to the attention of Parliament by various means and despite heavy opposition had some successes. Legislation passed to protect workers was, however, very restricted being applicable only to certain defined work premises, processes and machinery etc.
The legislation dealt with known hazards and usually followed some disaster or serious accident which highlighted a particular problem. This piecemeal and reactive approach continued up until the late 1960's when parliament decided to set up a commission under Lord Robens to examine the whole subject of health and safety law. His report published in 1972 recommended the passing of a new Act which covered every type of work and only set out the general duties for health and safety of those involved in work as employers, employees, self-employed, suppliers of work equipment, people who control work premises etc. He also recommended that the variety of Inspectors enforcing the previous legislation should be brought together in one enforcement body (the Health and Safety Executive) which should report to a policy making body (the Health and Safety Commission). The recommendations were accepted and became Law in 1974 with the passing of the Health and Safety at Work etc Act 1974, the largest part of which came into force on 1st April 1975.
Regulations made since the HASAWA have followed the pattern of setting down basic principles only. The detailed methods of complying with the regulations are usually defined in Approved Codes of Practice which can be referred to in a Court as evidence that the regulation has not been complied with.
New health and safety legislation is based on E.C. Directives which must be converted into law in each member state. In most cases as far as the UK is concerned, the legislation will "fill in the gaps" in the present body of law and require a more formal, written system of recording risk assessment across the whole range of hazards and activities.
A General Look at Elf & Safety
There is a public perception that “health and safety” prevents or prohibits many things previously part of our day to day lives. You need look no further than reports of schools banning conker fights, councils banning hanging baskets and the many health and safety myths that have appeared over the years.
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