Management of Health and Safety at Work Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2000

Temporary workers

15.—(1) Every employer shall provide any person whom he has employed under a fixed-term contract of employment with comprehensible information on—

(a)any special occupational qualifications or skills required to be held by that employee if he is to carry out his work safely; and

(b)any health surveillance required to be provided to that employee by or under any of the relevant statutory provisions,

and shall provide the said information before the employee concerned commences his duties.

(2) Every employer and every self-employed person shall provide any person employed in an employment business who is to carry out work in his undertaking with comprehensible information on—

(a)any special occupational qualifications or skills required to be held by that employee if he is to carry out his work safely; and

(b)any health surveillance required to be provided to that employee by or under any of the relevant statutory provisions.

(3) Every employer and every self-employed person shall ensure that every person carrying on an employment business whose employees are to carry out work in his undertaking is provided with comprehensible information on—

(a)any special occupational qualifications or skills required to be held by those employees if they are to carry out their work safely; and

(b)the specific features of the jobs to be filled by those employees (in so far as those features are likely to affect their health and safety);

and the person carrying on the employment business concerned shall ensure that the information so provided is given to the said employees.