Managing Rail Staff Fatigue: Management of Health and Safety at Work Regulations 1999

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The Management of Health and Safety at Work Regulations were introduced in December 1999 to reinforce the Health and Safety Act 1974. The Health and Safety Act 1974 outlines an employers’ legal health and safety obligations to both their employees, contractors, and members of the public, along with the responsibility employees have for ensuring the safety of themselves and each other. The Management of Health and Safety at Work Regulations 1999 go further, explaining that an employer must identify the risks that employees, contractors, and members of the public may face and take steps to control or mitigate those risks through a formal risk assessment process. The Regulations state that this should be carried out by businesses that have 5 or more employees.
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The Secretary of State, being a Minister designated(a) for the purposes of section 2(2) of the European Communities Act 1972(b) in relation to measures relating to employers’ obligations in respect of the health and safety of workers and in relation to measures relating to the minimum health and safety requirements for the workplace that relate to fire safety and in exercise of the powers conferred on him by the said section 2 and by sections 15(1), (2), (3)(a), (5), and (9), 47(2), 52(2), and (3), 80(1) and 82(3)(a) of and paragraphs 6(1), 7, 8(1), 10, 14, 15, and 16 of Schedule 3 to, the Health and Safety at Work etc. Act 1974(c) (“the 1974 Act”) and of all other powers enabling him in that behalf - (a) for the purpose of giving effect without modifications to proposals submitted to him by the Health and Safety Commission under section 11(2)(d) of the 1974 Act after the carrying out by the Commission of consultations in accordance with section 50(3) of that Act; and (b) it appearing to him that the modifications to the Regulations marked with an asterisk in Schedule 2 are expedient and that it also appearing to him not to be appropriate to consult bodies in respect of such modifications in accordance with section 80(4) of the 1974 Act.

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Jurisdiction United Kingdom
Type Laws or related obligations