This month, Neil Hughes-Hutchings, Head of Napthens Health and Safety, discusses how icy surfaces on the premises of care home providers/care sector organisation can also present a hazard to members of the public/visitors who enter the premises. The general duties under section 2 of the Health and Safety at Work etc Act 1974, poses a duty to manage all hazards in the workplace (this would include snow and ice), and section 3 of the same Act, poses a general duty to non-employees, as long as they are part of our undertaking.
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