Hrm Health and Safety
Human Resource Management
Assignment
Case Study – Health & Safety Issues at Café Nero
INTRODUCTION
In this report I will advise the Manager at Café Nero of the procedural and legal issues to follow in the event of an employee having a ‘slip and trip’ accident at the workplace. This report will outline the relevant legislation acts applicable to both the injured staff member and the café manager. After covering and identifying the relevant parts of legislation, it will enable me to state the applicable procedure methods to consider in the case study.
1.1 Legal Issues
Legislation acts
This incident includes the practicality of two issues – 1.1 Legal and 1.2 Procedural. I will discuss the different legislations that protect employees in a situation of Health & Safety, which will help both employees and employers to understand their rights and obligations to the law.
The Workplace Regulations Act (1992)
This act ensures that management provide employees with a suitable working environment that is productive of work activities and is obstruction free in the workplace premises. The legislation covers effective conditions of the workplace environment such as lighting, sanitary, equipment, workstations, room dimensions and space. Although Under the regulation, the employer also must make ‘suitable’ welfare facilities for employees including those individuals with disabilities. From an ethical perspective the waitress should’ve of been aware of common spillages and un-safe hazards from the compulsory H&S practices of staff training, but with the hazard being non visible, it is difficult to question whether the employer is liable under this act without a technical investigation.
The Management of HASAW Act (1999)
Under this law it is the employer’s responsibility to impose general principles of developing a prevention policy that manages the working conditions and assessments of risks such as slip & trip to all employees.
Assignment
Case Study – Health & Safety Issues at Café Nero
INTRODUCTION
In this report I will advise the Manager at Café Nero of the procedural and legal issues to follow in the event of an employee having a ‘slip and trip’ accident at the workplace. This report will outline the relevant legislation acts applicable to both the injured staff member and the café manager. After covering and identifying the relevant parts of legislation, it will enable me to state the applicable procedure methods to consider in the case study.
1.1 Legal Issues
Legislation acts
This incident includes the practicality of two issues – 1.1 Legal and 1.2 Procedural. I will discuss the different legislations that protect employees in a situation of Health & Safety, which will help both employees and employers to understand their rights and obligations to the law.
The Workplace Regulations Act (1992)
This act ensures that management provide employees with a suitable working environment that is productive of work activities and is obstruction free in the workplace premises. The legislation covers effective conditions of the workplace environment such as lighting, sanitary, equipment, workstations, room dimensions and space. Although Under the regulation, the employer also must make ‘suitable’ welfare facilities for employees including those individuals with disabilities. From an ethical perspective the waitress should’ve of been aware of common spillages and un-safe hazards from the compulsory H&S practices of staff training, but with the hazard being non visible, it is difficult to question whether the employer is liable under this act without a technical investigation.
The Management of HASAW Act (1999)
Under this law it is the employer’s responsibility to impose general principles of developing a prevention policy that manages the working conditions and assessments of risks such as slip & trip to all employees.
References: Books Stranks, Jeremy (2005) The Manager 's guide to health & safety at work, 8th Ed