Health and Safety
The Health and Safety at Work Act (1974) (HASAWA) and subsequent updates is the governing legislation in the UK for causing to be implemented the processes required to demonstrate the management of risk in organisations. The application of this act is now accepted to include wider organisations, including model engineering clubs.
FMES has worked with other representative organisations through the ‘Passenger Carrying Miniature Railway Group’ (PCMRG) and with HSE to produce guidance notes for model engineering clubs.
In addition, FMES has also provided some other informative notes to assist with health and safety matters.
Whilst some of the information is procedural in nature, definitive guidelines (for example, describing technical solutions to safety issues with miniature railways via HSE guideline ‘HSG2016’), although still often relevant in content, are superseded by the need for each organization to demonstrate their own responsibility for health and safety. As a result, FMES does not produce guidelines for addressing specific risks under this legislation, this is the responsibility of each organization (club) in its particular circumstances and so information FMES provides is for general awareness and information not prescribed action.
Information to support this requirement can be found HERE in the relevant library section and this includes the latest Health and Safety Executive note relevant, risk assessment methods and some other information relevant to H&S.
FMES has worked with other representative organisations through the ‘Passenger Carrying Miniature Railway Group’ (PCMRG) and with HSE to produce guidance notes for model engineering clubs.
In addition, FMES has also provided some other informative notes to assist with health and safety matters.
Whilst some of the information is procedural in nature, definitive guidelines (for example, describing technical solutions to safety issues with miniature railways via HSE guideline ‘HSG2016’), although still often relevant in content, are superseded by the need for each organization to demonstrate their own responsibility for health and safety. As a result, FMES does not produce guidelines for addressing specific risks under this legislation, this is the responsibility of each organization (club) in its particular circumstances and so information FMES provides is for general awareness and information not prescribed action.
Information to support this requirement can be found HERE in the relevant library section and this includes the latest Health and Safety Executive note relevant, risk assessment methods and some other information relevant to H&S.
