• Regulation 5(1) your employer must maintain the workplace, equipment, devices and systems in an efficient state,
  in efficient working order and in good repair. They must also clean the workplace and equipment.
• Regulation 5(2) your employer must devise, institute and maintain a suitable system of maintenance which is
  carried out at suitable intervals (including as necessary inspection, testing, adjustment, lubrication and cleaning).
• These regulations also cover: ventilation (Regulation 6), temperature (Regulation 7), lighting (Regulation 8),
  accumulation of rubbish (Regulation 9) and the condition of floors and traffic routes to ensure that they are
  kept free from disrepair or obstruction.(Regulation 12)

Manual Handling Operations Regulations 1992
(covers lifting, pulling, pushing and lowering any object)

• Regulation 4(1)(a) - your employer must ensure that they avoid the need for their employees to undertake
  any manual handling operations at work which involve a risk of their being injured. Where this is not “reasonably practicable”:
• Regulation 4(1)(b)(i) provides that your employer must make a suitable and sufficient assessment of all such
  manual handling operations to be undertaken by you.
• Regulation 4(1)(b)(ii) - your employer must take appropriate steps to reduce the risk of injury to you arising out
  of you doing any manual handling operations to the lowest level reasonably practicable. This may include providing
  you with adequate manual or mechanical assistance during lifting and manoeuvring
• Regulation 4(1)(b)(iii) - your employer must ensure that employees receive proper information about the weight of an item.
• Regulation 4(2) requires appropriate reviews of any risk assessments completed under Regulation 4 (1) (b) (i).
  The specific risk assessment provisions should also be considered in conjunction with the general requirements of
  Regulations 7 and 10 of the Management of Health and Safety at Work Regulations 1999, which require employers
  to provide their employees with health and safety information and training.

Provision and Use of Work Equipment Regulations 1998

• Regulation 4(1) - your employer must ensure that the work equipment provided to you was so constructed or
  adapted as to be suitable for the purpose for which it was intended.
• Regulation 4(3) - your employer must ensure that the work equipment is used only for operations for which,
  and under conditions for which, it is suitable
• Regulation 5(1) – requires that work equipment is maintained in an efficient state, in efficient working order and in good repair.
  In the case of Stark v. The Post Office [2000] the Court of Appeal ruled that this requirement imposes strict liability on employers in circumstances where they do not maintain work equipment.
  (the Court considered Reg 6(1) of the 1992 Regulations, whose wording is identical)