ABSTRACT
The purpose of the Act is to provide a legal framework to encourage high standards of health and safety at work.
Its aims are: to secure the health, safety and welfare of people at work; to protect other people against risks to health or safety arising from the activity of
people at work; to control the keeping and use of dangerous substances and prevent people from
unlawfully having or using them; control the release into the atmosphere of noxious or offensive substances, from
prescribed premises.
