Legal registers from a UK perpective.
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Q: Are you being asked to demonstrate an in-depth knowledge of your organisation's environmental compliance obligations and or H&S legal requirements?
Below is a list of suggested subject area (s) to consider:
Environmental
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Pollution control
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Air
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Waste and recycling
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Chemical hazards
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Climate change
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Energy
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Noise
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Countryside protection
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Planning impact Assessments
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Water
Health and Safety
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Fire
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First aid and emergency management
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Hazardous substances
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Personal protective equipment
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Health and safety management
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Transportation
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Physical hazards
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Worker health
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Work equipment
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Food safety
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Premises management
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Product Safety
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Work activities
A risk-based approach should be taken, i.e. organisations should start with the identification of the most important compliance obligation that is relevant to the business and then focus on all the other compliance obligations (Pareto principle).
Where appropriate, the organisation should establish and maintain a single document (such as a register or log) setting out all of its compliance obligations and have a process for updating the document on a regular basis.
Q: How do I make sense of legislation if I am not legally qualified?
Associated documents published with legislation
A variety of documents can be published alongside legislation.
Understanding legislation - Explanatory Note(s)
Explanatory Notes are documents that typically accompany primary legislation (e.g. an Act or Measure). The text is created by the government department responsible for the subject matter of the Act (or Measure) to explain what the Act sets out to achieve and to make the Act accessible to readers who are not legally qualified. Explanatory Notes were introduced in 1999 and accompany all Public Acts except Appropriation, Consolidated Fund, Finance and Consolidation Acts.
Text called an Explanatory Note also appears following the legislative text of Statutory Instruments, Scottish Statutory Instruments or Statutory Rules of Northern Ireland. For Welsh Statutory Instruments the Explanatory Note precedes the body of the Instrument in print format but follows the legislative text in html format. The Explanatory Note is intended to give a concise and clear statement of the substance of the instrument. The instrument itself may also be accompanied by a separate explanatory document. For secondary legislation, such as Statutory Instruments, these are called Explanatory Memorandum or Executive Note/Policy Note for Scottish Statutory Instruments.
