What are your Legal Obligations - with respect to gases

In general your duties, as an employer, include:

  • assessing the risks to health and safety on site
  • making arrangements for implementing the health and safety measures identified as being necessary by the assessment
  • recording the significant findings of the risk assessment (if you have over five employees) and the arrangements for health and safety measures
  • setting up emergency procedures
  • making sure that work equipment (such as a gas regulator) is suitable for it's intended use, so far as health and safety is concerned, and that it is properly maintained and used
  • preventing or adequately controlling exposure to substances which may damage health
  • taking precautions against danger from flammable or explosive hazards
  • avoiding hazardous manual handling operations, and where they cannot be avoided, reducing the risk of injury
  • providing free protective clothing or equipment where risks are not adequately controlled by other means

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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