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Health and Safety in the Workplace: Background

Lately we have discussed a few of the ways in which employers can decrease the risk of the operation of their business in order to minimize the chance of injury to employees and other parties. Today we’re going to take a look at the roots of Health and Safety as defined through the principles that developed under the common law (case law). Under the common law of negligence, the development of rules, such as the neighbor principle, has made us ...

Assessing Risk in the Work Place

Risk is the potential of something undesirable becoming a reality. There are many forms of risk – economic risk, risk to health, security and criminal damage risks – and there are ways to mitigate risk, such as insurance, forward planning, and using good business judgement. In this post we’re going to be looking at the kind of risks your workplace exposes workers to and how to mitigate and minimize those risks through the creation of risk assessments. Awareness is power ...

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