Health and Safety (Consultation with Employees) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1996

Duty of employer to consult

3.  Where there are employees who are not represented by safety representatives under the 1979 Regulations, the employer shall consult those employees in good time on matters relating to their health and safety at work and, in particular, with regard to:—

(a) the introduction of any measure at the workplace which may substantially affect the health and safety of those employees;

(b) his arrangements for appointing or, as the case may be, nominating persons in accordance with regulations 6(1) and 7(1)(b) of the Management of Health and Safety at Work Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1992(1);

(c) any health and safety information he is required to provide to those employees by or under the relevant statutory provisions;

(d) the planning and organisation of any health and safety training he is required to provide to those employees by or under the relevant statutory provisions; and

(e) the health and safety consequences for those employees of the introduction (including the planning thereof) of new technologies into the workplace.

(1)

S.R. 1992 No. 459, to which there are amendments not relevant to these Regulations