1. What are the duties, rights and obligations of workers as specified in H&S legislation?
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1. What are the duties, rights and obligations of workers as specified in H&S legislation?
50 words
2. What are the three main principles that underlie H&S legislation?
50 words
3. Explain what you would do if you worked for an organisation and had been asked to assist with effective health and safety management of contractors.  Your explanation should cover: -
· Identifying existing contractor health and safety arrangements:
· Sources you could use to find information
· How you would identify benchmarks on which to measure contract H&S arrangements
· Evaluating and improving contractor H&S arrangements:
· Legislation and best practice
· Finding areas which need improvement
· Developing and implementing improvements
Prepare a report of three pages
You can base your report on an organisation which you know or on general principles which could apply to any organisation. You should support your plan by giving specific examples from experience or by describing theoretical situations that support your proposal.

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1. What are the duties, rights and obligations of workers as specified in H&S legislation?
50 words
They have right for representation and consultation at work.
They have duty of care to take care of themselves as well to bother for the health and safety of others at work. They never should deal recklessly with the safety equipment and other sensitive equipment at the work locations. They have duty to report an accident immediately after its occurrence. Further they should not take the risk of health and safety of others at the workplace.
2. What are the three main principles that underlie H&S legislation?
50 words
Every person should be given highest level of safety protection that is reasonably practicable.
Those who works on to manage or control activities should also give rise to risks to health or safety are also responsible for the eliminating the same risks.
Employers and self employed people should remain proactive and should take reasonable measures and actions to ensure health and safety in their business activities.
3. Explain what you would do if you worked for an organisation and had been asked to assist with effective health and safety management of contractors.  Your explanation should cover: -
· Identifying existing contractor health and safety arrangements:
· Sources you could use to find information
· How you would identify benchmarks on which to measure contract H&S arrangements
· Evaluating and improving contractor H&S arrangements:
· Legislation and best practice
· Finding areas which need improvement
· Developing and implementing improvements
If I were asked to assist with effective health and safety management of the contractors, I will take care of the following, 
· Identify the existing safety and health arrangement in the workplace for the contractors
· Evaluating the current conditions
· Improving the conditions of the same.

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