Andy Farrall: “We Don’t Need a Health & Safety System – It’s Just Common Sense”
Oct 12, 2026 · 37 min · 9 segments
**"We don't need a health & safety system – it's just common sense". True, but common sense isn't always common.** In this episode…
Oct 12, 2026 · 37 min · 9 segments
**"We don't need a health & safety system – it's just common sense". True, but common sense isn't always common.** In this episode…
And linking on to that to sort of enter the second phase of the podcast and to start wrapping up is looking at some of the main fundamental obligations that health and safety law places on an employer.
I've got the list here, but if you want to just sort of talk through them
Why should you be required should be obvious, but you're required to provide a safe workplace.
To provide employees with the appropriate level of safety training to match the task that they're doing.
You know, if they're handling machinery, make sure they understand the safe way of doing it and so on.
If you've got an office, then yeah, it'd be nice to have a toilet and a wash basin somewhere.
If you have got a man out on the road doing some local repairs, well then he can come back to the office to have his meal break.
If you've got 1,000 people working on a building site or a construction site, like I went near Hinkley Point yesterday.
You're going to need more than maybe a port-a-cabin with a couple of chairs and a table.
It's in contact with the number of people you've got working 24-7 out in the open.
they need to be looked after so you provide appropriate welfare facilities but it's all done within context and to help you do this what the law does require is you have access to competent advice as an employer so you don't have to bring in a paid outside consultant though it pains me to say so But you don't have to.
As long as you've got somebody on your staff who understands what's required and has the ability to do the job properly, then they can act as your advisor.
And linking on to that to sort of enter the second phase of the podcast and to start wrapping up is looking at some of the main fundamental obligations that health and safety law places on an employer.
I've got the list here, but if you want to just sort of talk through them
Why should you be required should be obvious, but you're required to provide a safe workplace.
To provide employees with the appropriate level of safety training to match the task that they're doing.
You know, if they're handling machinery, make sure they understand the safe way of doing it and so on.
If you've got an office, then yeah, it'd be nice to have a toilet and a wash basin somewhere.
If you have got a man out on the road doing some local repairs, well then he can come back to the office to have his meal break.
If you've got 1,000 people working on a building site or a construction site, like I went near Hinkley Point yesterday.
You're going to need more than maybe a port-a-cabin with a couple of chairs and a table.
It's in contact with the number of people you've got working 24-7 out in the open.
they need to be looked after so you provide appropriate welfare facilities but it's all done within context and to help you do this what the law does require is you have access to competent advice as an employer so you don't have to bring in a paid outside consultant though it pains me to say so But you don't have to.
As long as you've got somebody on your staff who understands what's required and has the ability to do the job properly, then they can act as your advisor.
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