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Course Director
Vic Stewart FCIS, Chartered MCIPD, CMIOSH, HSE Registered Consultant (OSHCR). Vic has spent his working life in the public sector, undertaking a wide range of line management positions and a period teaching at the Civil Service College. Vic is a Chartered Safety and Health Practitioner and his last position before retirement was as the Health and Safety Advisor based at the Royal Hospital for Sick Children in Edinburgh, where he covered a wide range of acute hospital safety matters including community and corporate management aspects. Vic has also lectured on nursing courses for Napier University and Queen Margaret University College, and has been our course director for health and safety since 2002.
Guidelines and Statutory Requirements
The responsibilities of employers, employees and volunteers are governed primarily by the Health and Safety at Work etc. Act 1974 and the Management of Health and Safety at Work Regulations (1999); employers must provide “information, instruction and training”.
“(The HSW Act) is of overriding importance in almost all work situations; its general duties and Regulation-making powers provide protection not only for all people ‘at work’ .… wherever they may be engaged, but also extend a degree of protection to the public at large …. managers and others must comply …” (Croner, Health and Safety at Work, Jan. 2002).
The Corporate Manslaughter and Corporate Homicide Act comes into force on 6th April 2008. Under the Act, where the death of an employee or member of the public arises through "gross breach of the duty of care owed", the organisation may be prosecuted and face an unlimited fine.
The implications of the new legislation will be incorporated as appropriate in all the health & safety courses, and covered in more depth in "Health & Safety Management" and the "Corporate Briefing".
Certification
TfC attendance certificates for all health and safety training courses to demonstrate compliance with the Management of Health and Safety at Work Regulations.
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