Regulations

Management Regulations:- Businesses are required to have good and working health and safety management in place. They should be competent in their workplace risk assessment and with required first aid. Proper documented information regarding health and safety at work. Proper training should be provided to required individuals. The management should have a working cooperation between all the workplace duty holders. A regular risk assessment should be carried out by the management. This is for a typical office. A company that deals in any hazardous materials, oil rig, chemical plant, power station, laboratory etc need to do a thorough and complex risk assessment. If you are a company with fewer than 5 employees then generally you don’t need to have a written regulation document. For a company bigger than that you should have a regulation document. This doesn’t mean that you should do a lot of regulation paperwork but instead do a risk assessment have measures to identify them and be prepared with procedures. The below points will help to properly formulate a workplace regulation policy. Conduct a risk assessment of your workplace. Implement or arrange for health and safety measures as per the risk assessment document. Designate a person among the staff to implement the safety measures. Setup an emergency procedure. Communicate to your employees about these measures and conduct training sessions. Regularly review the risk assessment and the corresponding safety measures.

Gas systems are one of those critical systems that require engineers to have adequate knowledge, complete training and experience to work. For engineers and fitters to properly work following safe working practices and standards many countries maintain a list of Registered Gas Engineers or Fitters. By law only individuals or companies who are licensed are allowed to work on such gas systems. These registrations are required to safeguard the systems that pose a threat to the person carrying out the work and also people who may be using the system later. Due to the level of risk involved for all the people in the vicinity of the gas systems law authorities take it very seriously when these laws are broken. If a complaint is received regarding installation or maintenance work on gas systems by some other non registered fitters the authorities can charge the person and present him in court. If found guilty they may face suspension, fines and even prison sentence. In UK a Gas Safe Register is maintained with the list of companies and individuals who are trained and competent enough to carry out such jobs. According to a report there are thousands of jobs that are carried out by non-registered engineers and fitters. Many of the house holds simply trust the engineer when they say “They are registered” instead of verifying for an ID.