......... Health and Safety Agriculture/Horticulture Level 2
Employee Duties
Employees are required to take "reasonable" steps to safeguard the safety and health of colleagues, who may be affected by your actions.
Employees are also expected to cooperate with employers to enable them (employers) to fulfill their legal duties. More on cooperate in next LO (3)
No person shall interfere with health and safety measures that are there to fulfill legal requirements.
Reasonable Care
While the law may say it is the duty of every employee to take reasonable care, what does that mean in practice?
"reasonable" does NOT include any economic considerations where employees are concerned. everybody is expected to behave reasonably
intentionally or recklessly interfere
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