M3.23 Managing Health & Safety at Work

All managers need to know enough to ensure that work activities remain within the requirements of law - ignorance of the law is no defence, so pleading that no-one told me is of no avail! As a manager you have responsibility for the health and safety of your team members as well as your own.The objectives of this workbook are to make you better able to

• identify the most important laws relating to health and safety
• find out more about laws that are especially relevant to the work you do
• explain to your team how the law affects them
• play your part in implementing and maintaining safe systems of work
• identify hazards in the workplace and take effective precautions against them
• take part in risk assessment
• identify important points of health and safety law
• cope with, report on and investiogate accidents at work