Publisher's Synopsis
This text is designed to offer guidance on health and safety at work to managers and owners of businesses and factories. The author emphasizes that more time is lost to business through accidents at work than through industrial action. The legal history and current position are also covered.;The book offers an outline of the history of safety legislation, goes on to explain the reasoning behind the 1974 Health and Safety at Work Act, covers trade union involvement, major cases of negligence and the relevance of 1992, the European Year of Health and Safety.
