Health and Safety in Employment Act 1992

Duties of employers in relation to training and supervision

13 Training and supervision
  • Every employer shall take all practicable steps to ensure that every employee who does work of any kind, or uses plant of any kind, or deals with a substance of any kind, in a place of work—

    • (a) either—

      • (i) has; or

      • (ii) is so supervised, by a person who has,—

      such knowledge and experience of similar places, and work, plant, or substances of that kind, as to ensure that the employee's doing the work, using the plant, or dealing with the substance, is not likely to cause harm to the employee or other people; and

    • (b) is adequately trained in the safe use of all plant, objects, substances, and protective clothing and equipment that the employee is or may be required to use or handle.