... which have far reaching consequences upon the offending organisation Breaching Health & Safety Law can be both a criminal and civil offence and upon summary conviction substantial fines may be payable and under certain circumstances Imprisonment The general statutory duties of the HSAW act The Act imposes general duties on a number of different persons or categories of person. Duties are imposed on; employers, manufacturers, designers, suppliers, the self employed, controllers of premises and employees. Most of these duties are qualified in that the duty only extends to what is "reasonably practicable" The effect of the qualification is to allow the person on whom the duty is placed to weigh up the seriousness of a risk and the likelihood of injury against the difficulty and expense of removing it. Where difficulty and cost are high and a careful assessment shows that the risk of injury is significant, then it may be that ...

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