Hi does anyone know where I can get a full list of UK HS regulations?

'Management Regs'
The Workplace (Health, Safety and Welfare) Regulations 1992
The Health and Safety (Display Screen Equipment) Regulations 1992
The Health and Safety (Display Screen Equipment) Regulations 1992

Is there a full list anywhere? How practical is it to have a broad understanding of all regs?

This may sound a daft question but what's the difference between legislation and regulations?

Thanks

Take a look here:-

http://www.hse.gov.uk/le...tion/statinstruments.htm

Mersey,

Regulations are legislation. Legislation is laws passed by parliament, regulations are part of the law, kind of an addition to the main acts. Primary legislation refers to Acts of parliament, such as the health and safety at work act or the dangerous dogs act. Some acts of parliament (such as the health and safety at work act) are very broad in their scope, and they allow regulations to be written for particular details such as manual handling or PPE. But it's all legislation.

Regulations are easier to pass than primary legislation, and don't normally need to go through all the various committee stages and so on in parliament.

Then there's regulatory reform orders, but that's also law and a subject for another post!

John

HASAWA, & Secondary Health and Safety legislation (regulations) applies to Great Britain, enforced by Health and Safety Executive & Local Authorities. Health & safety is not a devolved subject, unlike Environmental Legislation

European legislation
http://www.hse.gov.uk/ab...urope/eu-legislation.htm

A guide to health and safety regulation in Great Britain
http://www.hse.gov.uk/pubns/hse49.pdf


http://www.parliament.uk/about/how/laws/acts/

http://www.parliament.uk/about/how/laws/delegated/

There are over 100 pieces of legislation which are enforced by the HSE, not All of which derive from the HSWA (there are a few which come under the old factories Act etc.) many are obscure for the general H&S bod such as legislation dealing with diving or the genetically modified organism regs. You should be familiar both with the regs and any codes of practice or guidance associated with the ones relevant to your industry.
Although the power to create the regs comes from HSWA, the requirement to make the regs has in many cases over the years come from directives issued by the EU. The directives set out what states must do but leave the mechanism for transposing these requirements into state law down to the states governments. In our case the easiest way has been by creating regs using the powers under HASWA. COSHH for example is based on two European directives one covering chemicals and one biological agents which the UK government decided to combine into one set of regs. The intro to the regs mentions this process.
As far as enforcement is concerned only three bodies have powers under Health and Safety law. The HSE, the Office of rail safety and local councils. Other bodies sometimes stick their oar in such as Ofsted but they are not really enforcement bodies in the true sense and do not possess the powers under Section 20 of the Act that the three mentioned do.

The last time I counted there were about 150, give or take, including Acts, and fire-related. (Red Tape Challenge listed them I think).

Many are amending regulations, and once the quarrying, railway, mining, nuclear, offshore and other specific regs are extracted, you will get down to about 50. Obviously if these apply to YOU . . .

Then there will be peripheral (could apply but not really say much) or amendments of regs that apply, and by the time you get down to the core, there are, at most for most, about 30.

For comparison, there are about 35 road traffic regs listed in the Highway Code, out of a possible 100+.

By the time you have actually compiled your list it may have changed . . .