Updating author: Richard
Bretton
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Summary
Future developments
Practical example
Action point checklist
Key references
Questions and answers
Duty holders
Employers encompassed by health and safety legislation
Employers' duties to employees
Employers' duties to non-employees
Occupiers' duties to visitors and trespassers
Employees' duties
Summary
8.206
- A fundamental principle underpinning the Health and
Safety at Work etc Act 1974 is that risk creators are the main duty holders in
law. (See 8.208 Duty holders)
- In health and safety law it should be assumed that
'employer' means every employer regardless of its status, size, business
activities or resources.
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