Health and Safety Legislation

Health and safety legislation

Two of the most important pieces of health and safety legislation affecting educational establishments across the UK are the Health and Safety at Work, etc Act 1974 and the Management of Health and Safety at Work Regulations 1999. These set the standards that must be met to ensure the health and safety of all employees and others who may be affected by any work activity. Other regulations also exist to cover work activities that carry specific risks, for example lifting and carrying, computer work and electricity.

The Health and Safety at Work, etc Act 1974

The main piece of legislation affecting the management of health and safety in educational establishments across all sectors is the Health and Safety at Work, etc Act 1974 (HSWA). This Act provides a framework for ensuring the health and safety of all employees in any work activity. It also provides for the health and safety of anyone who may be affected by work activities in e.g. pupils/students and visitors to educational sites, including parents and contractors.

In Northern Ireland, similar provisions are made by the Health and Safety at Work (NI) Order 1978.

Employers and employees (as well as manufacturers, suppliers and the self-employed) must comply with the duties set out in the Act, which are summarised as follows.

• Section 2 places a duty on employers to ensure the health, safety and welfare of employees as far as is reasonably practicable. It also requires employers to consult with trade union safety representatives on matters affecting health and safety in the workplace. Moreover, employers of more than five people must prepare a written health and safety policy and bring it to the attention of employees.
• Section 3 requires employers to ensure that non-employees (eg pupils/students) who may be affected by work activities are not exposed to risks to their health and safety. Where young or vulnerable persons may be affected, the duty of care is greater.
• Section 4 places a duty on anyone responsible for the workplace to ensure that the premises, plant and machinery do not endanger the people using them.
• Section 5 requires employers to prevent and control harmful, noxious or offensive emissions into the atmosphere.
• Section 6 places duties on designers, manufacturers and suppliers to ensure that articles and substances are safe for use.
• Section 7 states that it is the duty of every employee while at work to take reasonable care of him or herself and of any other person who may be affected by his or her actions. This section also requires employees to cooperate with their employer in relation to health and safety issues.
• Section 8 requires employees not to interfere with or misuse anything provided in the interest of health and safety.

The health and safety measures to ensure personal safety and the safety of others when attending an emergency incident is always following instructions of the team leader, discussing the safest way to deal with the incident and making sure the public are cleared from the scene and if there are any injuries the correct procedures need to be carried out to ensure that no further damage is caused. This is all included in the health and safety legislation of a workplace for every public service.    

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Cars Crashed with Injured passengers.



Injured Passenger thats been thrown out the car from
the impact, she wasnt wearing a seat belt.

Emergency services start to arrive at the crime scene.



The Fire service arrived shortly after the ambulance service.



The Fire service begin to start cutting the trapped passenger
out of the vehicle.



Fireman using Jaws of life.

Firemen trying to get the trapped passenger out the vehicle.

They are removing the roof so that they can get to the
trapped passenger.



Interagency When Responding To An Emergency Incident

When Emergency Services respond to an incident they have a plan in which they follow this means there is very little room for errors. The purpose of a major incident plan is to prepare all of the Emergency Services,
it allows them to know what what their role is and ultimately the services work together.


How does the Police Service assist other services?

• They cordon off the area where the incident has taken place- if they didn't do this the fire and ambulance service would be obstructed to getting to the incident which cause loss of lives.
• They control the media coverage-if they didn't take control all journalists would be in the way which would prevent the ambulance service and fire service doing their jobs.

How does the Fire Service assist other Services?

• If the incident is a road traffic collision they set about to rescuing any person who is trapped in the vehicle- if they didn't do this they person may develop further injuries and possible even die.
• one fire officer supports any person who is trapped, holding their neck a certain way to prevent further damage.

How does the Ambulance Services assist other Services?

• Deals with treating the patient there and then as they see fit, they try to prevent loss of life so that the incident is not classified as murder.

Overall it is important that all the Services work together as they all specialise in certain areas and if you use them all together it make the incident allot easier to resolve.
it is also important as it build team cohesion across the services which'll mean they communicate and respond better.

S      Summon Assistance (Via 999- Police)

A     Access The Situation

D     Disseminate The Folowing To The Police Control Room

C     Casualty Or Casualties (Condition Of Casualty Or Casualties, Some Indication Of Nature Of Injuries)  

H    Hazzards ( Natural Or Man-Made Weather Conditions At Site)

A    Access (Suggestions As To Best Route To Incident Site Obstructions)

L     Location (As Precise As Possible Grid Reference- 2 Letter 100 Km Square And 6 Figures )

E     Emergency ( Urgency Of The Situation)

T     Type

S     Safety (Of All Concerned)

Chain Of Command

A Gold- Silver- Bronze command structure Is used by every service when it comes to responding to an emergency incident.

This Structure was created by the metropolitan police in 1985 after a big riot in north London when Police constable Keith blakelock was murdered

The Gold Command is overall in control of their organisations resources at the incident they won’t be on the site, but at a distant control room

Gold command formulate the strategy for dealing with the emergency incident

The Silver Commander is the senior member of the organisation at the scene, in charge of all their resources. They decide how to utilise these resources to achieve the strategy plan off the gold commander, they determine the tactics used.

A Bronze commander directly controls the organisations resources at the incidents and will be found with their staff working on the scene

Police primacy means that the police will be in ultimate charge of the incident over the other organisations who respond to the incident. There is an exception to this principle if the incident involves a fire or any other dangerous hazard, in which case the fire service will have overall charge of the area inside the inner cordon where fire fighting or rescue is taking place.

Day Out At Grantham

All Uniformed Public Services students got the chance to go to grantham for a careers event. Students got the chance to get more inforamtion regarding their desired service that  they wanted to join.

FOCUS !!




FOCUS ON THE TARGET!!