Explain the legal requirements and regulations for ensuring the health, safety and security of those employed in business?

There are number of legislations and regulations that make sure the working environment is safe place to work.
Health and Safety at Work Act 1974 is to make that all employers provide healthy and safe workplace, this is for their employees but also for other people visiting the workplace.
It also requires that the business does not give out any toxic substances into the public and general atmosphere.
It requires employees to take reasonable precautions for the safety of others within the workplace as themselves.

The Health and Safety at Work Act 1974 would have an impact on a business and as this would force them to make sure that the building that they are working at meets the standards of Health and Safety. This would include things like fire exits to make sure that the working environment is safe but also things like no smoking and smoking areas to make sure that the working environment is healthy.

According to this Act the business is impacted as it needs to sort their cleaning products such as bleach or other products away from day to day work and this type of products were kept in a locked room to make sure that employees or people visiting the building would not be able to have access to them. Also their waste is collected and handled by a specialist company to make sure that all the toxics would be controlled by a specialist company and away from the business this would make sure that the business is health and safe.

The business would have to make sure that any visitors would be easily informed about health and safety within the business and this was mainly done by posters and signs like Firs Aid or Fire Alarm, because of that this will make sure that the business follows the Act of Health and Safety at Work.