Health and Safety at Work etc. Act 1974
1974 c. 37 · 70 provisionsView on legislation.gov.uk
An Act to make further provision for securing the health, safety and welfare of persons at work, for protecting others against risks to health or safety in connection with the activities of persons at work, for controlling the keeping and use and preventing the unlawful acquisition, possession and use of dangerous substances, and for controlling certain emissions into the atmosphere; to make further provision with respect to the employment medical advisory service; to amend the law relating to building regulations, and the Building (Scotland) Act 1959; and for connected purposes.
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- Campbell v Gordon [2016] UKSC 38
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- HM Inspector of Health and Safety v Chevron North Sea Limited [2018] UKSC 7
- Kennedy v Cordia (Services) LLP [2016] UKSC 6
- R (on the application of Palmer) v Northern Derbyshire Magistrates’ Court and another [2023] UKSC 38
- R (on the application of Smith) v Secretary of State for Defence and another [2010] UKSC 29
- R v Chaytor and others [2010] UKSC 52
- R v Secretary of State for Justice [2017] UKSC 81
- Rabone and another v Pennine Care NHS Foundation Trust [2012] UKSC 2
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