ABSTRACT
Health and safety play a very important and critical role in any business today. Businesses in all types of industry, including primary, secondary, and tertiary industries with upstream and downstream operations, have differing risks but the consequences are similar in terms of potential loss of life and injuries, “res and explosions, environmental damage, and negative company image impacts. In the United Kingdom, for example, when it was “rst introduced, the Health and Safety at Work Act 1974 (HSAWA 1974) was probably one of the clearest and most practical frameworks for health and safety in the world (British Safety Council, 2005). In fact the Health and Safety at Work Act 1974 can be considered to have had a great in©uence on the European Health and Safety Directives today. The act, like most health and safety legislation all over the world, is binding and thus it is critical to follow the law or suffer the consequences of “nes and possible prosecution. This aspect cannot be ignored when looking at compliance.
