1. BTEC National Programmes
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BTEC National Programmes
Health, Safety, Risk Assessment and Welfare
Unit Number – 20334Z
Legislation and Regulations
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2. What is Legislation?
The word legislation generally refers to a law that is made in Parliament and is often called an act.
For our purposes, health and safety acts state what should and shouldn’t be done by employers and employees in order to keep work places safe.
If an employer or an employee does something they shouldn’t, or just as importantly, doesn’t do something they should, they could face paying a large fine or even a prison sentence.
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3. Legislation
During this unit we will be concentrating two acts in particular -
The Health and Safety at Work Act 1974
The Disability Discrimination Act 2005
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4. What are Regulations?
Regulations are created by parliament under the powers givens by the Health and Safety at Work Act 1974
They are created to define the safe methods of working in particular industries.
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5. Regulations
During this unit we will be concentrating ion the following four sets of regulations –
Control of Substances Hazardous to Health Regulations 2002(COSHH)
Provision and Use of Work Equipment Regulations 1998 (PUWER)
The Manual Handling Operations Regulations 1992
The Control of Noise at Work Regulations 2005
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