What is management's role in safety?

Answer 1

The management shall ensure, so far as is reasonably practicable, the health, safety and welfare of all workers while they are at work. This includes the provision and maintenance of plant and systems of work in the workplace that are safe and without risks to health; the arrangement in the workplace for ensuring safety and absence of risks to the health in connection with the use, handling, storage and transport of articles and substances; the provision of such information, instruction, training and supervision as are necessary to ensure the health and safety of all workers at work; the maintenance of all places of work in a condition that is safe and without risks to health and the provision and maintenance of such means of access to, and egress from, such place as are safe and without such risks; the provision, maintenance or monitoring of such working environment for the workers that is safe, without risks to health and adequate as regard facilities and arrangements for their welfare.