Introduction to Fire Safety Management

15.21.5 Training, time off and facilities for 
ROES – regulation 7
Where the employer consults with ROES, they must:
➤
Ensure that the ROES is provided with training in 
respect of their functions and meet any reasonable 
costs associated with this training
➤
Permit the ROES suffi cient time off with pay during 
the ROES working hours as necessary for the ROES 
to perform their functions or attend training
➤
Provide the ROES with other facilities and assist-
ance to enable the ROES to perform their functions.
The employer must also permit a candidate standing for 
election as an ROES to take reasonable time off with 
pay during their working hours to fulfi l their functions as 
a candidate.
15.21.6 Civil liability – regulation 9
Civil action for a breach of the HSCWE Regs is pre-
cluded although the ROES may complain to the employ-
ment tribunal where their employer either fails to permit 
them to take time off as detailed under regulation 7 or 
has failed to pay them while the ROES was either per-
forming or attending training in their functions.

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Summary of key legal requirements
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15.22
The Health and Safety (First-Aid) 
Regulations 1981 (SI 0917)
These regulations place a general duty on the employer 
to make adequate provision of their employees if they 
are injured or become ill at work and are supported by 
an Approved Code of Practice.
15.22.1 Defi nition of fi rst aid
The regulations defi ne ‘fi rst aid’ as:
Treatment for the purposes of preserving life 
and minimising the consequence of injury 
and ill health until help from a medical practi-
tioner or nurse is obtained.
and
Treatment of minor injuries which would oth-
erwise receive no treatment or which do not 
require treatment by a medical practitioner or 
nurse.