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- In a nutshell, the legislation details how employers have a legal obligation to ensure the immediate care of employees that get injured or become ill while they’re at work. HSE places the onus for duty of care on the employer and requires workplaces to provide first aid care to sick and injured personnel.
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Oct 3, 2023 · First aid regulations are important because they help employers provide adequate and suitable first aid provision. That said, many employers aren’t quite sure how to meet these regulations. In this article, we help you navigate them and make it easier for your business to comply.
- What Employers Need to Do
- First-Aid Needs Assessment
- First-Aid Arrangements
- First-aiders
- Certificates from Northern Ireland
- Overseas Certificates
- Appointed Persons
- Equipment
- Facilities
- Accidents and Ill Health
You must make appropriate first-aid arrangements for your workplace. In doing so you should consider the circumstances of your workplace, workforce and the health and safety risks that may be present to help you decide what arrangements you need to put in place. Some small low-risk workplaces need to have only a first-aid box and a person appointed...
In order to establish what provision for first-aid is required you should make an assessment of the first-aid needs appropriate to the circumstances of your business. This should include consideration of: 1. the workplace, 2. the workforce, and 3. the hazards and risks present. You can find out more information on carrying out a first-aid needs ass...
Your arrangements will depend on the outcome of your first-aid needs assessment and the particular circumstances in your workplace at any given time. The findings of the needs assessment should indicate the level of first-aid equipment, facilities and personnel required. As a minimum, you must have: 1. a suitably stocked first-aid kit 2. an appoint...
You might decide that you need a first-aider. This is someone who has been trained by a competent first aid training provider in first aid at work, emergency first aid at work, or some other appropriate level of training (identified by your needs assessment). If you have identified that you need first-aiders HSE has produced guidance to help you se...
A member of staff may have done their first aid training – and had their certificate for regulatory purposes issued in Northern Ireland. Both First aid at Work and Emergency First Aid at Work certificates issued by HSE Northern Ireland approved first aid training providers can be recognised by employers in GB as an equivalent to the GB qualificatio...
A member of staff may have done their first aid training – and had their certificate for regulatory purposes issued in another country outside Great Britain. You will need to make checks that the syllabus content and the standards of training are appropriate and meet the criteria set by HSE.
Where your first-aid needs assessment identifies that a first-aider is not required, you must appoint a person to take charge of the first-aid arrangements, including looking after the equipment and facilities, and calling the emergency services when required. An appointed person is not required to have any formal training. It is important that som...
The minimum level of first-aid equipment you may need is a suitably stocked first-aid box. (First-aid kit.) You should provide at least one first-aid kit for each workplace, although more than one might be required on larger sites. Each kit should be stocked with a sufficient quantity of first-aid materials suitable for the particular circumstances...
You may need to provide a suitable first-aid room where your needs assessment identifies that one is required. This will usually be necessary in larger premises or where higher hazards are present. The room should be easily accessible and a designated person should be given responsibility for supervising it. Wherever possible, a first-aid room shou...
Under health and safety law, you must report and keep a record of certain injuries, incidents and cases of work-related disease. You can find out which ones must be reported and how to report them on our report an incident pages. RIDDOR (the Reporting of Injuries, Diseases and Dangerous Occurrences Regulations 2013) puts duties on employers, the se...
A summary of what your employer should be doing to cover first-aid requirements in your workplace. What your employer needs to do Employers are responsible for ensuring that employees...
Employers' legal duties. The Health and Safety (First-Aid) Regulations 1981 require employers to provide adequate and appropriate equipment, facilities and personnel to...
Regulation 3 – Duty of employer to make provision for first-aid. An employer has a duty of care to provide, or ensure that there are provided adequate and appropriate facilities and equipment to cater for his employees if they are injured or become ill at work.
Mar 26, 2023 · The employer is responsible for ensuring that all staff are aware of their responsibilities regarding first aid provision. This includes providing training and making sure that all staff know who the designated first aiders are and where to find them in an emergency.
1 The Health and Safety (First-Aid) Regulations 1981 set out the essential aspects of first aid that employers have to address. This publication will help them to understand and comply with the Regulations and offers practical advice on what they need to do. Employers
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