ABSTRACT
The early health and safety laws, the Factories Act 1961 (FA) and the Offices, Shops and Railway Premises Act 1963 (OSRP), were aimed at correcting identified wrongs and tended to be very prescriptive in their content (i.e. they laid down how the wrong was to be corrected) and restrictive in their field by applying only to the particular operation, process or premises defined in the Act. Very few of the regulations made under these Acts are still in effect.
