MHSWR 1999

Question 1

Regulation 3

Answer 1

Risk Assessments

• Suitable and sufficient assessment of the risks
• Must be recorded if the employer has 5 or more employers
• Review and updated regularly

Question 2

Regulation 4

Answer 2

Principles of Prevention to be applied

Question 3

Regulation 5

Answer 3

Health and Safety Arrangements

• The employers must make arrangements for the effective planning, organisation, control, monitoring and review of the preventative and protective measures
• Must be recorded with 5 or more employees

Question 4

Regulation 7

Answer 4

Appoint one or more competent person to assist them with H&S measures

Question 5

Regulation 8

Answer 5

Procedures for Serious and Imminent Danger

• The employer must develop procedures to be implemented in the event of serious and imminent danger.
• They must nominate a sufficient number of competent persons to implement these procedures.
• Employees should be prevented from going into dangerous areas

Question 6

Regulation 10

Answer 6

Information for Employees
The employer must provide their employees with comprehensible and relevant information on:
-The risks to their health and safety.
-Preventive control measures.
-Emergency procedures.

Question 7

Regulation 13

Answer 7

Capabilities and Training

• The employer must take into account the capabilities of employees when allocating tasks.
• The employer must provide adequate health and safety training when employees are:
  - First recruited.
  - Exposed to new or increased risks.
• Training should be repeated periodically where appropriate and should take place during working hours.

Question 8

Regulation 14

Answer 8

Employees Duties
-Use equipment and materials in accordance with any instruction and training given.

-Inform the employer of any work situation that represents serious and immediate danger to health and safety or any shortcomings in the employer’s arrangements for health and safety.

Question 9

Regulations 16-18

Answer 9

Where work could present a risk to new or expectant mothers, a risk assessment must consider this:

• Where a risk cannot be avoided, the employer must alter working conditions and hours to avoid the risk.
• Where this would not avoid the risk, the employer must suspend the worker on full pay.
• The employer may have to suspend a night-shift worker if notified by a medical practitioner.
• The employer does not have to take any of the above preventive actions until notified in writing about the employee’s status.

Question 10

Regulation 19

Answer 10

The employer must ensure that young persons at work are protected from any risks to their health or safety through the risk assessment process.

• The specific characteristics of the young person that have to be taken into account, because they put them more at risk, are:
  
  • Their lack of experience.
  • Their poor perception of risk.
  • Their physical and mental immaturity.