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Health and Safety at Work Act 2015

Health and safety duties - Key principles relating to duties

32: Person may have more than 1 duty

You could also call this:

“You may have multiple responsibilities under this law”

You can have more than one duty under this law. This happens if you belong to more than one group of people who have duties. For example, you might be both a worker and a manager, so you would have duties for both roles. Each role you have might give you different responsibilities under the law.

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Part 2 Health and safety duties
Key principles relating to duties

32Person may have more than 1 duty

  1. A person may have more than 1 duty imposed on the person by or under this Act if the person belongs to more than 1 class of duty holder.

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