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Health and safety law

The Health and Safety at Work Act 1974 says that employers are responsible for making sure that all their employees are safe at work and are protected from possible dangers to their health.

This includes making sure that the job and the work environment are safe and has no health risks. Employees are also responsible for their own safety at work, and the safety of their work colleagues.

It is an employer’s duty 'to ensure, so far as is reasonably practicable, the health, safety and welfare at work of all his employees'. 

(Health and Safety at Work Act 1974)

See also equality law and disability discrimination.

Information produced: May 2021

Exercise and sport

To live full and active lives, and look after our physical and emotional wellbeing, we all need time to rest, relax and exercise. How we spend our leisure time is important and individual to us all, whether or not we have epilepsy.

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