HSWA 1974 Awareness

• Take reasonable care of your own health and safety at all times on site.
• Consider how your actions affect the safety of others working around you.
• Cooperate with your employer on health and safety measures and instructions.
• Use the safety equipment and PPE provided for your protection correctly.
• Report hazards, defects, and unsafe conditions to your supervisor promptly.
• Follow the safe systems of work, method statements, and risk assessments.
• Attend safety training and briefings provided by your employer.
• Understand that you have a personal legal duty under Section 7 of the Act.
• Support safety improvements and contribute to a positive safety culture.
• Raise safety concerns through your safety representative or management chain.

• DON'T ignore your personal duty to take reasonable care of yourself and others.
• DON'T interfere with or misuse safety equipment provided for your protection.
• DON'T take shortcuts that put yourself or other workers at risk of harm.
• DON'T assume health and safety is only the employer's or manager's responsibility.
• DON'T refuse to cooperate with reasonable safety instructions from your employer.
• DON'T carry out tasks you are not trained or competent to perform safely.
• DON'T ignore safety signs, barriers, or warnings put in place to protect you.
• DON'T assume ignorance of the law protects you from prosecution.
• DON'T pressure colleagues to take unsafe shortcuts to save time.
• DON'T fail to report hazards; the Act requires you to cooperate on safety.

See also: CDM 2015 Awareness | Worker Duties Under CDM