Health and safety regulation
The Health and Safety regulatory bodies must
make a review of health and safety regulation in Saudi Arabia to reduce the
hazard in workplace and improve the health and safety legislation.
What health and safety law requires
The Act sets out the general duties which
employers have towards employees and members of the public, and employees have
to themselves and to each other. These duties are qualified in the Act by the
principle of ‘so far as is reasonably practicable’. In other words, an employer
does not have to take measures to avoid or reduce the risk if they are
technically impossible or if the time, trouble or cost of the measures would be
grossly disproportionate to the risk. What the law requires here is what good
management and common sense would lead employers to do anyway: that is, to look
at what the risks are and take sensible measures to tackle them. The Management
of Health and Safety at Work Regulations generally make more explicit what
employers are required to do to manage health and safety under the Health and
Safety at Work Act. Like the Act, they apply to every work activity. The main
requirement on employers is to carry out a risk assessment. Employers
with five or more employees need to record the significant findings of the risk
assessment.
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