HSR Dictionary of Legislation 2011
The Health and Safety Review Dictionary of Legislation is a guide to health and safety legislation and those aspects of environmental legislation that impact on workplace safety, and health. The Dictionary, which was first published in HSR from April 1996 to November 1997, provided readers with a comprehensive source of safety, health, welfare and work related environmental legislation applicable in the Republic of Ireland.
The Directory has now been updated to include all legislation enacted up to November 10th 2011.
When the HSR web-site was launched over two years had passed since the Dictionary was completed and a number of new Acts and Statutory Instruments had in that period been adopted as national law. Accordingly we believed it was time to update the Dictionary.
With the development of new media and methods of communication, we decided that the Dictionary should be published as one complete document and be available on our website www.healthandsafetyreview.ie. The updated Dictionary complements and expands what might be termed our first edition and updates our 1993 publication, the Health and Safety Legislation Handbook. As with the Handbook and the first edition of the Dictionary, the objective is to provide a synopsis of the legislation in readable English. To assist readers who may need to refer to the original Acts or Statutory Instruments, headline notes, with the section number from the Act and the number of the Statutory Instrument from which the synopsis is derived, are given.
The Dictionary is set out under subject headings from A to Z. So for instance if a reader wants a summary of the legislation relating to smoking in the workplace, the reader should click the S icon and there he/she will find Smoking. During 2006 we also published a list of legislation under topic headings. This list is updated in the current edition of the Dictionary.
Because it would be unwieldy to use the full title of every Act or Statutory Instrument each time it is referred to abbreviations are used. The abbreviations for Acts of the Oireachtas are listed below and the abbreviations for Statutory Instruments (SIs) – which are by reference to the SI number - are listed after each letter or group of letters under which legislation is summarised, with only those that are relevant being listed under the particular letter heading.
The Dictionary is a guide only and not a legal interpretation of the legislation. For the definitive version of the legislation, readers must always refer to the original document and if a matter of interpretation arises, professional legal advice should be sought. Subscribers seeking more information on topics will find cross-references to selected relevant articles in Health & Safety Review. Beyond those articles there are numerous other articles and references that readers will find relevant. Those seeking further information should search the web-site and read articles either on-line or in past issues.
Subscribers may print or copy electronically the Dictionary or such parts of it as they require and copyright is waived in so far as the Dictionary when it is used within the subscriber’s organisation or for training purposes when training is provided by subscriber’s organisation, provided that it is made clear that the Dictionary is a synopsis of legislation, that reference should always be made to the actual Act or Statutory Instrument and Health & Safety Review’s authorship is acknowledged.
Herbert Mulligan, Editor,
Health & Safety Review
December 2011
Health & Safety Review Dictionary of Legislation (12th Edition)
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