1. © easilyinteractive.com 2006-101 Employment and the law Health and safety legislation Health & Safety Executive website

2. © easilyinteractive.com 2006-102 Health and Safety Legislation task - the cost of ignoring the legislation  Read this article from the BBC website (15/9/06)  List the 7 accidents, summarising each one in a sentence, and identify the major health and safety breach in each case * Due to copyright restrictions we are not able to provide a PDF version of this article however you can select the printable version by clicking the hyperlink at the top of the article AccidentSummaryH&S Breach

3. © easilyinteractive.com 2006-103 Health and Safety at Work tasks  The Connexions website has three good health and safety activities  All are accessed from this link 1. Health and safety blockbusters  Use our interactive whiteboard grid with the questions  Use our photocopyable grid for a small group game (one student in each group plays the role of quiz master) 2. Safety at work  H&S symbol recognition – perhaps useful before a business trip (pardon the pun) 3. Spot the hazards  3 drawings: hairdressers, garage and office * In case you are unaware, Connexions is the UK’s careers service. To avoid stepping on toes you may wish to check with your careers teachers that they don’t already use these resources in their lessons.

4. © easilyinteractive.com 2006-104 Health and Safety at Work blockbusters * FE PC FA I S H HS E E FLT FAK AP T SG A AB Playing Blockbusters: Two teams: One team has to connect top and bottom with a yellow path of 4 consecutive answers, the other has to complete a horizontal path of orange hexagons. Ask one team for a starting letter and read the question. Give them 15 seconds to answer. If they answer correctly click the letter to change the hexagon to the right colour. Now ask them another question. If they get one wrong, the other team plays. Note: If students find it too easy, you may wish to limit them to a maximum run of 2 or 3 consecutive questions.

5. © easilyinteractive.com 2006-105 Health and Safety at Work blockbusters * FE S E T PC H FLT SG FA HS FAK A I E AP AB

6. © easilyinteractive.com 2006-106 Health and Safety at Work Act, 1974  The basis of health and safety law is the Health and Safety at Work etc Act 1974:  Both the employer and the employee have a responsibility to keep the workplace safe  Employers must take all reasonable steps to ensure the health, safety and welfare of all employees  Employees must take reasonable care to look after their own safety and the safety of others * Reasonable: An employer does not have to take measures to avoid or reduce the risk if they are technically impossible or if the effort or cost would be grossly disproportionate to the risk  i.e the law requires what a good employer would do anyway: to look at the risks and take sensible measures to tackle them

7. © easilyinteractive.com 2006-107 Health and Safety Legislation  Other key pieces of H&S legislation:  Workplace (Health, Safety and Welfare) Regulations 1992  Health and Safety (Display Screen Equipment) Regulations 1992  Personal Protective Equipment at Work Regulations 1992  Provision and Use of Work Equipment Regulations 1998  Manual Handling Operations Regulations 1992  Noise at Work Regulations 1989  Control of Substances Hazardous to Health Regulations 2002 * This information is taken from a HSE guide which is available as a PDF file. You may wish to print out page 6 for your students. Use the ‘skip’ button to skip the next 3 slides of H&S legislation details

8. © easilyinteractive.com 2006-108 Health and Safety Legislation  Management of Health and Safety at Work Regulations 1999: Require employers to carry out risk assessments  Workplace (Health, Safety and Welfare) Regulations 1992: Cover a wide range of basic health, safety and welfare issues such as ventilation, heating, lighting, workstations, seating and welfare facilities  Health and Safety (Display Screen Equipment) Regulations 1992: Set out requirements for work with Visual Display Units (VDUs)  Personal Protective Equipment at Work Regulations 1992: Require employers to provide appropriate protective clothing and equipment for their employees * (1/3)

9. © easilyinteractive.com 2006-109 Health and Safety Legislation  Provision and Use of Work Equipment Regulations 1998: Require that equipment provided for use at work, including machinery, is safe  Manual Handling Operations Regulations 1992: Cover the moving of objects by hand or bodily force  Health and Safety (First Aid) Regulations 1981: Cover requirements for first aid  The Health and Safety Information for Employees Regulations 1989: Require employers to display a poster telling employees what they need to know about health and safety * (2/3)

10. © easilyinteractive.com 2006-1010 Health and Safety Legislation  Employers’ Liability (Compulsory Insurance) Act 1969: Require employers to take out insurance against accidents and ill health to their employees  Reporting of Injuries, Diseases and Dangerous Occurrences Regulations 1995 (RIDDOR): Require employers to notify the HSE of certain occupational injuries, diseases and dangerous events  Noise at Work Regulations 1989: Require employers to take action to protect employees from hearing damage  Control of Substances Hazardous to Health Regulations 2002 (COSHH): Require employers to assess the risks from hazardous substances and take appropriate precautions * (3/3)

11. © easilyinteractive.com 2006-1011 Photo by Spider Dijon Health and Safety Legislation task  You work in the warehouse for Sinbad Plc, climbing ladders to fetch large objects like flat-screen TVs  You are concerned that this is potentially dangerous and have obtained a leaflet from the Health and Safety Executive which outlines your rights as an employee  Create a spider diagram of important points from the leaflet in preparation for a meeting with your supervisor * Leaflet from the HSE website (pdf)

12. © easilyinteractive.com 2006-1012 Health and Safety Legislation task  Make a poster that could be displayed at school to inform students of their responsibilities under one or more of these pieces of legislation * Leaflet from the HSE website (pdf)

13. © easilyinteractive.com 2006-1013 Health and Safety Legislation discussion  There has been recent criticism about ‘health and safety gone mad’  Examples…  Has health and safety legislation gone too far, or are employees and members of the public in need of protection from cost-cutting companies? * Photo by Neal Gardner Photo by Jussi Mantere

14. © easilyinteractive.com 2006-1014 Employment and the law Working time regulations BERR website The Department for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform (BERR) is the new name for the Department for Trade and Industry

15. © easilyinteractive.com 2006-1015 Working Time Regulations, 1998  Provides workers with:  A maximum of a 48 hour working week (on average – though workers can choose to work more if they wish)  Four weeks’ annual paid leave  Eleven consecutive hours’ rest in any 24 hour period  A day off each week  A 20 minute rest break after six hours’ work  11 hours rest a day  Workers can complain to an employment tribunal if they are being denied rest periods, breaks or the paid annual leave entitlements  The rights for young workers are different * The rights of young workers (16-18):  a limit of eight hours work a day and 40 hours a week  not to work between 10pm and 6am (except in certain circumstances)  12 hours rest between each working day  Two days rest per week and a 30-minute in-work rest break when working longer than four and a half hours

16. © easilyinteractive.com 2006-1016 Employment and the law Equal opportunities legislation bbc.co.uk guide to discrimination Photo by Skyfaller direct.gov.uk website

17. © easilyinteractive.com 2006-1017 Equal opportunities legislation discrimination  Discrimination: When an employer treats one employee less favourably than others *

18. © easilyinteractive.com 2006-1018 Equal opportunities legislation  Aims to give all people identical rights and opportunities regardless of:  Gender (and marital status/pregnancy) - Equal Pay Act 1970  Race - Race Relations Act 1976  Physical disability - Disability Discrimination Act 1995  Age - Employment Equality (Age) Regulations 2006  Religion or belief - Employment Equality (Religion or Belief) Regulations 2003  Sexual orientation - Employment Equality (Sexual Orientation) Regulations 2003  Applying equal opportunities allows a firm to select the best employees *

19. © easilyinteractive.com 2006-1019 Equal opportunities legislation age  Before reading:  What is the current retirement age?  Will it be the same when…  …your parents/teachers retire? (e.g. in 2030)  …you retire?  Why might the age of retirement need to change?  Now use the article to find the answers to these questions  Questions for group discussion:  Do you think that it is unfair that people can be made to retire?  Do older workers prevent younger workers from finding jobs?  Do older workers have skills/qualities that younger workers don’t possess?  Do you think there should be a legal retirement age? * Article, BBC News, 25/1/10

20. © easilyinteractive.com 2006-1020 Equal opportunities legislation  In general it is illegal for an employer to discriminate on any of these grounds in:  selection  training and development  pay and conditions  selection for redundancy *

21. © easilyinteractive.com 2006-1021 Equal opportunities legislation task  Read the article about Julie Hayward, watch the videos and answer the questions * ‘One woman’s fight’ article 5-09 Original article and videos The article has been edited a little to make it shorter and more relevant. Answers to the gap fill can be found in the online article. A teaching suggestion: do question 1 in pairs in class (so that cheating isn’t possible!) then set the remaining questions for homework

22. © easilyinteractive.com 2006-1022 Equal opportunities legislation  An employee who feels discriminated against should first try to resolve the problem with their manager. If that fails they can go to:  Acas  Citizens Advice Bureau  Trade union  If the dispute cannot be resolved it may go to ACAS arbitration or an employment tribunal  If the employee should win the case, he/she may be entitled to:  Re-instatement (same job, same employer)  Re-engagement (new job, same employer)  Compensation *

23. © easilyinteractive.com 2006-1023 Limitations of equal opportunities legislation  It is often very difficult to prove discrimination  Employees are often afraid/unwilling to deal with the issue *

24. © easilyinteractive.com 2006-1024 …of Human Resource Management (People)