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Ensuring compliance with safety and health standards is a responsibility of line management.
Protecting the health and safety of the population in general is the responsibility of the Police Department, the Health Department (or Health Ministry in some countries), and also the Department of Environmental Protection or of Environmental Conservation. But ultimately the responsibility for the health and safety of each individual rests with that individual. The health and safety of the working population is the responsibility of the Occupational Safety and Health Administration and its state equivalents (in the US), of the Health and Safety Executive (in the UK) and of equivalent agencies in other countries. But the ultimate responsibility for health and safety in the workplace rests with the employer and the employee.
duty of care in protection the health and safety of employees
The primary responsibility of your employer is to provide employment and a place of employment that is free from recognized hazards to health or safety.
Regulations are usually government requirements. Health and safety regulations are government requirements that relate to preserving or providing health and safety. Health and safety regulations in a workplace are regulations that relate to providing or preserving health and safety in that workplace. There are two kinds of health and safety regulations: "general regulations" that apply to all workplaces, and "industry specific" regulations that apply to specific workplaces.
Requirements in the OHS Act for health and safety committees vary according to which act you are talking about. Several different countries have Occupational Health and Safety Acts, each unique in its own way.
The primary purposes of the health and safety regulations are to establish minimum requirements for health and safety in the workplace and to explicitly establish the health and safety responsibilities of employer, employee and government.
The Health and Safety Executive is the government agency in England that has the responsibility for developing and enforcing standards of health and safety in the workplace. It is roughly equivalent in function to the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) in the United States.
In a classroom situation the teacher has primary responsibility for the health and safety of all in the classroom, in the sence of things going on in the room that might impact health and safety.
The European Union does not fit within health and safety; health and safety fits within the EU. EU health and safety requirements are but one small part of what the EU does.
In the US, national workplace safety regulations are the responsibility of the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA), within the Department of Labor In Canada, national workplace safety regulations are the responsibility of the Ministry of Labour, but national responsibilities are very limited in scope and most responsibilities reside at the Provincial level. In the UK, national workplace safety regulations are the responsibility of the Health and Safety Executive (HSE) Most countries place this responsibility within their Ministries of Labor or Health.
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