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8.115

  • The XpertHR employment law reference manual Health and Safety Chapter adopts the terminology set out in appendix 1 to the Health and Safety Executive publication Successful health and safety management. (See 8.117 Health and safety terminology)
  • Since 1974 almost all risks to health and safety arising from work activity have been regulated through a single legal framework, the core of which is the Health and Safety at Work etc Act 1974.
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