13/05/2021
It is the duty of Employers to shoulder the responsibilities for the health and safety of their employees and any visitors to their premises such as customers, suppliers, and the general public.
Within the Occupational Health and Safety Act, Section 8 mentions the duties of employers to their employees:
(1) Every employer shall provide and maintain, as far as it is reasonably practicable, a working environment that is safe and without risk to the health of his or her employees.
(2) Without derogating from the generality of an employer’s duties under subsection (1), the matters to which those duties refer include in particular-
(a) conducting a workplace specific risk assessment and thereafter developing and implementing a risk management plan in writing, in respect of every risk identified;
(b) ensuring that the workplace specific risk assessment is conducted, by a person or persons who are competent to pronounce on all the risks associated with that workplace;
(c) ensuring that the workplace specific risk management plan is in place and is available at the workplace when requested by an inspector;
(d) ensuring that no work is undertaken unless the control measures contained in the risk management plan are complied with;
(e) provide information, instructions, training and supervision as may be necessary to ensure, as far as is reasonably practicable the health and safety at work of employees;
(f) Ensuring communication of the relevant components of the risk management plan to every employee.
