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Health and Safety at Work Act 2015

“Protecting workers and creating safer workplaces”

This Act aims to keep you and other workers safe and healthy at work. It does this by trying to remove or reduce risks that come from your job or from certain dangerous machines.

The Act wants to make sure that workers and bosses can talk to each other fairly about safety at work. It encourages unions and employer groups to help make workplaces safer. The Act also wants to make sure you get good advice, information, and training about how to stay safe at work.

The Act sets up ways to make sure people follow the safety rules. It also makes sure that the people in charge of safety are doing their job properly. The Act wants to keep making work safety better and better over time.

The most important thing is that you and other workers should be protected from harm as much as possible. The Act says that bosses should do everything they reasonably can to keep you safe and healthy at work.

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