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In 1974, the Health and Safety at Work Act laid down general principles for the management of health and safety at work in Britain. [2] This legislation, together with the establishment of the Health and Safety Executive (HSE) and Health and Safety Commission (HSC) (now merged), led to more emphasis being placed on occupational safety and health by UK employers from the mid-1970s onwards. [3]
For example, in 2000, Salford City Council were fined £115,000 for a breach of the regulations. [10] It is a defence that the responsible person was not aware of the event requiring reporting or notification and that he had taken all reasonable steps to have such events brought to his notice (reg.11).
Security controls can also be classified according to the implementation of the control (sometimes termed control categories), for example: Physical controls - e.g. fences, doors, locks and fire extinguishers; Procedural or administrative controls - e.g. incident response processes, management oversight, security awareness and training;
Administrative controls are training, procedure, policy, or shift designs that lessen the threat of a hazard to an individual. [1] Administrative controls typically change the behavior of people (e.g., factory workers) rather than removing the actual hazard or providing personal protective equipment (PPE).
Procedural control is a form of air traffic control that can be provided to aircraft in regions without radar, by providing horizontal separation based upon time, the geography of predetermined routes, or aircraft position reports based upon ground-based navigation aids, for those aircraft that are not vertically separated.
Administrative controls are changes to the way people work. Examples of administrative controls include procedure changes, employee training, and installation of signs and warning labels, such as those in the Workplace Hazardous Materials Information System. [3]
Engineering controls is the third of five members of the hierarchy of hazard controls, which orders control strategies by their feasibility and effectiveness. Engineering controls are preferred over administrative controls and personal protective equipment (PPE) because they are designed to remove the hazard at the source, before it comes in ...
Control self-assessment creates a clear line of accountability for controls, reduces the risk of fraud (by examining data that may flag unusual patterns of transactions) and results in an organisation with a lower risk profile. [4] [5] A number of other soft benefits have been claimed for organisations performing control self-assessment.