Health And Safety At Work

Health and safety at the work floor is an area which crosses many Legal subjects, and legislation on the subject is put in place with the safety an d well being of employees in mind. The intention for health and safety regulations, is to establish a work environment, which is safe to all those that work there. As a side effect this could also extend to family, employers and basically every party involved.

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The reasons to instate this type of legislation are many, as they have been instated from a moral viewpoint, no employee should have to place his life, heath or well being at risk at the job, nor any other associated with it. From an economical stance, ensuring health and safety at the work floor is cost effective, as the state pays less for (partially)disabled ex-workers, medical costs, while employees work for a longer period in their professional lives, while for the employers it means less expenses from legal fees, claims, lost time and more productive employees. Last from a legal point of view, health and safety regulations, have already proven their worth in history, as is proven, that in areas in the world where such legislation does not exist, most companies are not willing to adhere to it, voluntarily.

In Europe most member states authorities are installed to govern and oversee the implementation of the safety and health regulations, in order to ensure the basic conditions regarding the European legislation are met.

All members of the European Union, have incorporated the EU directives into their own national legislation regarding health and safety regulations, ensuring at the very least the minimum standards as set out by the EU are met.

In the United Kingdom, the legislation on health and safety is enforced by the Health and Safety Executive, along with the local council. More and more the United Kingdom is moving away from rules, that pre-describe situations, towards risk assessment at the scene. Prime examples of this are the changes recently made to the legislation regarding asbestos, fire safety control, which both appear to move more towards risk assessment, rather than prescriptive regulations.