Introduction to Health and Safety at Work

17.13.8 Training – Regulation 6
Employers shall ensure that adequate health and safety 
training is provided to users and potential users in the 
use of any workstation and refresh the training following 
any re-organization. The guidance suggests a range of 
topics to be covered in the training. In summary these 
involve:
➤
the recognition of hazards and risks, including the 
absence of desirable features and the presence of 
undesirable ones
➤
causes of risk and how harm may occur
➤
what the user can do to correct them
➤
how problems can be communicated to management
➤
information on the regulations
➤
the user’s contribution to assessments.
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17.13.9 Information – Regulation 7
Operators and users shall be provided with adequate 
information on all aspects of health and safety relating to 
their workstation and what steps the employer has taken 
to comply with the Regulations (insofar as the action 
taken relates to that operator or user and their work). 
Under Regulation 7 specifi c information should be pro-
vided as outlined in Table 17.5.
17.13.10 References
Work with display screen equipment, Health and 
Safety (Display Screen Equipment) Regulations 1992 
as amended by the Health and Safety (Miscellaneous 
Amendments) Regulations 2002 Guidance on Regulations 
L26 2nd edition 2003, HSE Books
ISBN 0-7176-2582-6
The law on VDU’s: An Easy Guide, HSG90, 2002 HSE 
Books
ISBN 0-7176-2602-4
Working with VDU’s INDG 36 (rev1) 1998 HSE Books
ISBN 0-7176-1504-9
VDU workstation checklist 2003 HSE Books
ISBN 0-7176-2617-2
17.14 
Electricity at Work Regulations 
1989
The purpose of these Regulations is to require precau-
tions to be taken against the risk of death or personal 
injury from electricity in work activities. The regulations 
impose duties on persons (‘duty holders’) in respect of 
systems, electrical equipment and conductors and in 
respect of work activities on or near electrical equipment. 
They apply to almost all places of work and electrical sys-
tems at all voltages.
Guidance on the Regulations is contained in the 
Memorandum of Guidance on the Electricity at Work 
Regulations 1989
, published by the HSE.