TY - JOUR
AU - LEWIS, NORMAN
AB - Recent Legislation Health and Safety at Work Act 1974 This Act, which had a seven-year period of gestation, is the most import- ant piece of safety legislation of our lifetime. Based securely on the controversial Robens report (Safety and Health at Work, Cmnd. 5034, 1972) it may nevertheless depart considerably in emphasis from the recommen- dations of that body if the Pariamentary debates are any guide. That, however, is currently little more than an educated guess since the Act is primarily an enabling measure the main strength of which is that it provides powers to devise new controls for new problems as and when they occur. As with Robens the central philosophy is that forward-thinking rather than concerned pathology is the watchword. The Act applies for the control of operations at most all places of work so that requirements may be imposed on anyone who carries on an undertaking or anyone who works in one. Protection may be extended to such people and, at one and the same time, to members of the public who may be affected by the way in which industrial operations are pursued. Thus, for the first time, some five million work- people who have 
TI - HEALTH AND SAFETY AT WORK
JF - Industrial Law Journal
DO - 10.1093/ilj/4.1.34
DA - 1975-01-01
UR - https://www.deepdyve.com/lp/oxford-university-press/health-and-safety-at-work-IJ96dp4Dxr
SP - 34
EP - 37
VL - 4
IS - 1
DP - DeepDyve
ER -