Health and Safety Executive Roles

What is the main role of the Health and Safety Executive?

• To provide advice and information on health and safety matters

• To carry out investigations and inspections

• To issue improvement and prohibition notices

• To prosecute individuals who fail to comply with safety duty

What powers do Health and Safety Executive inspectors have?

• The power to enter premises and carry out investigations

• The power to demand the seizure or destruction of dangerous machinery or substances

• The power to issue improvement and prohibition notices

• All of the above

What is the purpose of an improvement notice?

• To require the responsible person to put right any minor hazard or infringement of legislation

• To stop immediately any activities that are likely to result in serious personal injury

• To demand the seizure or destruction of dangerous machinery or substances

• To provide employees with information about the safety of their workplace

What is the purpose of a prohibition notice?

• To require the responsible person to put right any minor hazard or infringement of legislation

• To stop immediately any activities that are likely to result in serious personal injury

• To demand the seizure or destruction of dangerous machinery or substances

• To provide employees with information about the safety of their workplace

Who can be prosecuted by the Health and Safety Executive?

• Only employers

• Only employees

• Only self-employed individuals

• Any person who fails to comply with their safety duty

What are the consequences of conviction for failing to comply with safety duty?

• Unlimited fines

• Prison sentence

• Both unlimited fines and prison sentence

• No consequences

What information must an inspector provide to employees or their safety representative?

• Information about the safety of their workplace

• Details of any action the inspector proposes to take

• Both information about the safety of their workplace and details of any action the inspector proposes to take

• No information is provided

What can an inspector demand in relation to machinery, equipment, material, or substances?

• Seizure

• Dismantling

• Neutralising

• All of the above

What can an inspector do during an investigation?

• Take measurements, photographs, recordings, and samples

• Require the premises to be left undisturbed

• Ask relevant questions and require signed declarations

• All of the above

Can an improvement or prohibition notice be appealed?

• Yes, to an industrial tribunal

• No, it cannot be appealed

• Yes, to a magistrates' court

• Yes, to a higher court system