ABSTRACT
Health and safety information is given to employees in a variety of ways. Ensuring that employees are aware of the contents of the employer’s health and safety policy statement is perhaps the most obvious of these. However, earlier enactments had also required that copies of printed abstracts of the major Acts and regulations dealing with workplace health and safety be displayed at or near the workplace. Their ability to inform was doubtful, as they were simply displays of the legal requirements and not specially written for comprehension. These Regulations repealed most of the former specific requirements, and introduced a statutory set of approved written information material in the form of a poster or leaflet which must be made available to all employees regardless of the nature of their work. Further legislation has revoked the remaining requirements to display particular pieces of legislation on the walls of premises.
