Posted By Darren (Daz) Fraser

I have been asked to put together a booklet detailing each regulation and a single sentaence of the responsability of a manager under the said regulation.

I have passed on the HSE - An Introduction to Health & Safety (12 pages or so), but was informed that this was not enough, and passed on the Directors Responsabilities and informed that was too much

Has anyone any ideas how I can go about this, or if someone has something in place could I beg a peek, obviously would not use as is but to give me an idea of others solution to this.

Many thanks for any assistance that is forthcoming.

Posted By s mac
I was interested to read your posting Darren, as it highlights how it can be a struggle to convince managers/directors to take an interest in health and safety law and their responsibilities. I have also been looking for material to provide to staff in my organisation, the Directors leaflet and Essentials at Health and Safety at Work appealed to me as giving a broad overview. Giving a summary of one sentence per set of regulations doesn't sound easy?
I had agreement from within my organisation in recent months for the most senior personnel to attend a one day IOSH Directing Safely course, as they admitted not having had formal training on h&s responsibilities and it was agreed all round that this would be a suitable way forward. I arranged a date at their convenience and an experienced trainer.
Unfortunately, today they have reneged on this and are only now prepared to attend a maximum of four hours training, which I am disappointed with. Maybe I take things too personally but I thought I had convinced them of the value of health and safety in the organisation and didn't think one day of their time was excessive?
Good luck with your task Darren and I hope more members will respond, if they can offer any further advice or samples of handbooks which may help you.

Posted By Taff2
I've recently started working at a food manufacturing site & due to poor European leadership was tasked to list all the regulations / legislative requirements that we have to abide to (for business + HSE promise + external audit requirement).

Trawled Croners + EEF and copied / pasted a few lists:

Started with a list with 40 pages of 55 legislative requirements applicable in UK ->2000 reference documents.

Deleted all the easily non-applicable ones - agriculture, mines, docks, offshore, nuclear etc.

Left with a list of 12 Acts + 96 regulations = 108 key documents (excluding the ACOPs)

Say average 20 regs/sections / document = >2000 regs/sections

Say average 3 paragraphs / regulation/section = >6000 different legal requirements to be summarised into one liners - this would be about the size of your task.

This ignore more definitive requirements of ACOPs & industry guidelines & you can see the amount of work required - red tape in H&S !!!!!

I took the list to the site manager - he told me that the list was too big for him/his team to comprehend - I agreed, but pointed out that once an accident happens / external audit instigated the "investigator" - legal expert will be able to quote one line / sentence / bullet point / paragraph somewhere that the manager (or employee) failed to comply with.

I picked the list out of the bin, as I left his office...........

All the best