This subtopic covers regulatory requirements relating to health and safety incidents, including requirements relating to the reporting of injuries, diseases and other dangerous occurrences and practical information about investigating, handling and reporting health and safety incidents. It covers health and safety incident requirements in an office-based workplace. Other industry/workplace-specific requirements may apply in different working environments.
The Management of Health and Safety at Work Regulations 1999, SI 1999/3242 require organisations with employees to:
establish and, where necessary, give effect to appropriate procedures which are to be followed in the event of serious and imminent danger to persons in the workplace
nominate a sufficient number of competent persons to implement any evacuation procedures
ensure that no employees have access to any
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