Introduction to Health and Safety at Work

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6.1 
Introduction
The control of risks is essential to secure and maintain 
a healthy and safe workplace which complies with the 
relevant legal requirements. Hazard identifi cation and 
risk assessment are covered in Chapter 5 and these 
together with appropriate risk control measures form the 
core of HSG 65 ‘implementing and planning’ section of 
the management model. Chapter 1 covers this in more 
detail.
This chapter concerns the principles that should 
be adopted when deciding on suitable measures to 
eliminate or control both acute and chronic risks to 
the health and safety of people at work. The prin-
ciples of control can be applied to both health risks and 
safety risks, although health risks have some distinctive 
features that require a special approach.
Chapters 9 to 16 deal with specifi c workplace 
hazards and controls subject by subject. The principles of 
prevention now enshrined in the Management of Health 
and Safety at Work (MHSW) Regulations need to be used 
jointly with the hierarchy of control methods which give 
the preferred order of approach to risk control.
When risks have been analysed and assessed, 
decisions can be made about workplace precautions.
All fi nal decisions about risk control methods must 
take into account the relevant legal requirements, 
which establish minimum levels of risk prevention or 
control. Some of the duties imposed by the HSW Act 
and the relevant statutory provisions are