Task 1 – Understand how health and safety legislation and regulations affect a business working environment
Create a business report, in a professional format; you are to explain the legal requirements and regulations for ensuring the health, safety and security of those employed in the business. This should include details of the legislation which would apply, starting with the Health and Safety at Work Act 1974 and others. After describing the main legislations you should report on how the legal requirements can be implemented. This should include reference to workplace policies, reporting procedures, management responsibilities, harmful work practices and individual responsibility
Business legal requirements and regulations for health and safety requirements and regulations in the work place health and safety at Tesco
The Health and Safety at Work Act 1974 Act sets out the overall responsibilities which businesses and mainly Asda have to follow with regards to employees and members of the public. Employees also need to take responsibilities for themselves and for each other. These responsibilities include looking after the business and people working in the business to ensure everyone at their work place is safe. For example in the business and the staff follow the Act by my making the organisations follow these acts about the health and safety and to make sure the business are in a good safe working environment and everyone at that work place is safe and treat in good manner the employees and the organisation deals with acts such as if someone didn’t know how to deal with things the other trained people will show them how to do it properly.
The health and safety Act 1997:
This Act describes overall responsibilities on employers, employees, contractors, suppliers of goods and materials for use at work, people in control of work buildings, and those who manage and maintain them, and persons in general. The Act allows a broad regime of rule by government ministers through Statutory Instrument which has, in the years since 1974, made a wide system of exact supplies for various industries, disciplines and risks. It established a system of public management through the creation of the Health and Safety Commission and Health and Safety Executive, since merged, and bestows extensive enforcement powers, eventually sponsored by criminal authorizations spreading to unlimited fines and imprisonment for up to two years. Further, the Act provides a dangerous border with the law of the European Union on workplace health and safety.
This act is linked to my business Asda because they follow up to this act by checking that everything is going as it should do for example the organisation would have to make sure everything in the working place is going well and everyone one in the environment is safe the organising also follow this act by making sure the business is running fine for example everything the suppliers are providing is good quality as it should be and all the products are being sold properly and not out of stock the organisation would also have to make sure the employees are working fine and if there is anything un safe or any problems are occurring tint he business the business needs to deal with these problems as soon as possible.

Asda deals with its policy’s by following different health and safety acts and they do this because this way everything runs well and the business gets a fixed flow of keep going on I will give example of how their policies are linked to the acts:

Marketing: when Asda are marketing they have to follow acts such as copyright act this ensures that that while marketing the business has to ensure that it is not copying any other businesses information and this also gives Asda advantages because after Asda has published the marketing this act ensures not one else can copy the similar advert as Asda.
Customer care and correspondence: when dealing with computers Asda has to follow acts such as computer misuse act and also data protection act because this allows Asda to work properly because if any members are not doing what they are spouse to this Act will help and guide them on what they are spouse to do while on computer this also means when other people such as hackers try to hack the Asda network of data it is automatically protected under the data protection act because Asda can only share their information in the business.
Website improvement: to create or improve the old website for the business to make more better improvements and to make it for the customers for understand and use the new website more easily and to increase the businesses profits by making new website to attract more customers Asda has to look in to Acts such as email spamming and hacking because these acts will make the website much safer because for example if customers get in the website and they see unauthorised ads such as spam by hackers this will have a bad impact on the customers and business by using the acta the website will stay safe and much secure.
Payments: when taking the customers or other payments linked to the business Asda has to make sure they follow the data protection act and the freedom of information act this way the customers personal details will stay safe and within the business.

Employing new staff members: when recruiting new employees in the business Asda gas to ensure that the members are told and fully trained because they start their job Asda also has to tell inform the new employees about act such as equality act because this act involves respecting and treating everyone in same good manner such as do not be raciest or rude to people and also take care of disable and other people with problems this act helps the new employees learn about how to treat different kind of people while providing customers.

I have picked a job role of a cashier art Asda now I will be going to talk about the possible health and safety hazards and how they are linked to the health and safety Acts I will be also talking about how to deal with the problems when they occur I will also provide with a lot of examples in my report. Being a cashier at Asda is one of the most risky jobs as far as robberies and internal injuries are concerned, for this reason health and safety of cashiers at work should be of great concern to both employees and their employers at Asda.

There are several hazards in the job role of being a cashier factors such as health and safety of cashiers at work effect the business because sometimes the workers aren’t following the act in a right manner. Hazards such as these occur very often in this job role at Asda:
• Robberies
• Carpal tunnel syndrome
• Back pain
• Swollen feet
• Leg pain
• Normal exposure to colds and flu
• Shoulder and neck pain
• Sleep problems if working the night shift

Robberies: The most dangerous safety concern of cashiers according to United Kingdom Department of Labour and Statistics is "the risk from robberies and homicides is much higher for cashiers than for other workers at Asda". Asda will have to ensure this does not happen in the business by making the environment much safer and by having enough security guards and CCTV cameras to protect the customers and the people in the business as well as the business.
Wrist pain/back pain/ shoulder pain / not enough sleep / staring at the computer for too long: Cashiers at Asda do repetitive motions in using the cash machine and moving products. The same repetitive motion can cause pain and in some advanced cases, carpal tunnel syndrome. The use of a scanner greatly cause hand and wrist pain. Most cashiers also get pains in the back and shoulders for sitting down and standing up for too long and doing the same motions for many hours of the day this cause the blood not flowing in the whole body and staying in one area of the body which later on cause pains.. Asda can prevent from this happening by following and telling their employees about the management of health and safety at work regulation 1999 and the health and safety at work act 1974 these two acts show the staff and the business how to look after the employees at work place and if any hazards do intend to pop up how to deal within hem properly.
Not locking the compute or the till after leaving or finishing the shift: more cashiers intend to leave their till unlocked while going for a break or for a toilet this can cause others to have access to the Asda’s personal data and their spread sheets and customers personal information Asda prevent from this by following the data protection act this allows the employees to ensure to lock their computers and this also allows the system to get locked automatic after 30mins.

Treating people in the business with disrespect such as customers and staff: a lot of employees at Asda intend to lose their patience at work this causes for them to get angry and this also causes disrespect to the customers and other staff members the business prevents from this by following the equality act this allows the employees in the business to find out others rights and how everyone should be treated at work place such as different kind of people should be treated in a different manager for example disable people should be treated with more care and respect.