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Health & Safety Health and Safety at Work Act 1974 (HASWA) is the most important Act of parliament relating to health and safety. The law requires both employers and employees to comply with health and safety legalizations. The Act sets out the general duties and responsibilities that employers have to their employees and to members of the public, and those that employees have to themselves and each other. The Health and Safety at Work Act is an 'umbrella' Act which includes various Regulations that can be revised to ensure the law is kept up to date. Details of the responsibility of an employer under the HASWA are given in The Workplace (Health, Safety and Welfare) Regulations 1992. Any person who is negligent under the Act can face criminal prosecution for breaching a health and safety requirement, therefore all organizations must display details of the Act in a prominent place; this includes...

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