Health And Safety At Work Act 1974

Legislative factors:

Health and Safety at Work Act (1974)

This act is about some principles of health and safety within the work place. This act defines h&s responsibilities of both the employer and employee.

The purpose of the Health and Safety at Work Act 1974 is to provide a legislative rules to promote the standards of health and safety at work.

The legislation works to all persons at work which include employer, employees and self employed people. One more thing you have to know, that the legislation protects not only persons at work but also the general public who may be affected by the any work activities. For example, a company producing chemicals must consider not only how the chemicals may affect employees but also how other

Because the precise outcome of an accident cannot be predicted the only effective way to reduce accidents is to control the underlying causes in this case the spillage.

Legal factors:

Statutory Law

Statutory law is written to all coaches, sport teachers, managers, pupils etc. A statutory law is a written law that everyone has to follow. If someone doesn't follow these rules they will have problems with the policy.

For example if you have a look at h&s at work act(1974), you will see that it doesn’t say that it causes a problems if you don’t follow it and that’s why there is a statutory law to ensure that everyone is following the h&s at work act and there is no mess or any confusions.

To connect this law to a sport, I can give an example. If you go to a swimming pool, it’s better for you to ensure that everything here is under control and corresponds the standards. You cannot check if the chlorine levels are controlled properly but as a result of statutory law, you can be sure that everything in the pool is followed by the h&s at work act otherwise the company which is controlling all this staff could be put on trial for not following the law and putting other people at

But a regulation is a rule passed by a government agency that provides details on how legislation will be implemented and may set specific requirements for the people to meet if they are considering the legislation and the regulations that they are following. Regulation is a specific requirement within legislation.

Legislation is more opened , wide and more general, but regulation is specific and details how the legislation is working.

The next thing is that legislation could be proposed by a parliament ,whereas regulations are made by regulators and doesn’t interfere here.

And the last thing is that legislation is usually generated within a government, but regulations may be internally or externally generated.

The similarity between them is that regulations are the „details” that need to be obeyed in order for the law to be followed. For example, the Parliament might legislate that sport halls need to meet all the h&s standards, whereas the h&s department might develop regulations that includes specific type of equipment, for example, which are required for the law to be