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Organisations will already be well aware of their responsibility for health and safety. In the UK, under the Health and Safety Act (1974), ‘It shall be the duty of every employer to ensure, so far as is reasonably practicable, the health, safety and welfare at work of all his employees’ and ‘it shall be the duty of every employer to prepare and as often as may be appropriate revise a written statement of his general policy with respect to the health and safety at work of his employees’. It is common practice for boards to approve the organisation’s health and safety policy.
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Coppin, A. (2017). Health and Safety and Psychological Wellbeing. In: The Human Capital Imperative. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-49121-9_11
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