The Fire Precautions (Workplace) Regulations 1997

PART III AMENDMENT OF THE MANAGEMENT OF HEALTH AND SAFETY AT WORK REGULATIONS 1992

Amendment of the 1992 Management Regulations: general provisions

7.  Subject to regulation 9, the provisions of the 1992 Management Regulations amended by this Part of these Regulations shall continue to be regarded (if they would not otherwise continue to be so regarded) as provisions of health and safety regulations within the meaning of the 1974 Act(1).

Amendment of the 1992 Management Regulations

8.—(1) The words “and by Part II of the Fire Precautions (Workplace) Regulations 1997” shall be inserted into the following provisions of the 1992 Management Regulations, as follows—

(a) in regulation 1(2) (interpretation), at the end of the definition of “the preventive and protective measures”;

(b) in regulation 3 (risk assessment), at the end of paragraph (1);

(c) in regulation 6 (health and safety assistance), at the end of paragraph (1);

(d) in regulation 9 (co-operation and co-ordination), in paragraph (1)(a) after the words “the relevant statutory provisions”; and

(e) in regulation 10 (persons working in host employers' undertakings), in paragraph (1)(b) after the words “the relevant statutory provisions”.

(2) In regulation 8(1) of the 1992 Management Regulations (information for employees)(2)—

(a) the words “and the measures referred to in regulation 4(2)(a) of the Fire Precautions (Workplace) Regulations 1997” shall be inserted at the end of sub-paragraph (c); and

(b) the words “and regulation 4(2)(b) of the Fire Precautions (Workplace) Regulations 1997” shall be inserted at the end of sub-paragraph (d).

(3) In regulation 9 of the 1992 Management Regulations (co-operation and co-ordination), the following shall be substituted for paragraph (1)(b)—

“(b) (taking into account the nature of his activities) take all reasonable steps to co-ordinate the measures he takes to comply with the requirements and prohibitions imposed upon him by or under the relevant statutory provisions and by Part II of the Fire Precautions (Workplace) Regulations 1997 with the measures the other employers concerned are taking to comply with the requirements and prohibitions imposed upon them by that legislation;”.

(4) The words “(except in so far as it refers to Part II of the Fire Precautions (Workplace) Regulations 1997)” shall be inserted after the words “Paragraph (1)” in regulations 9(2) and 10(2) of the 1992 Management Regulations.

(1)

See section 53 of the 1974 Act.

(2)

As substituted by the Health and Safety (Young Persons) Regulations 1997 (S.I. 1997/135).