Health and Safety in the workplace is the responsibility of:

• A. The security manager only
• B. Employers and all employees
• C. External contractors
• D. Customers

Answer: (B)

Health and safety is a shared duty. Employers have to create a safe workplace by assessing risks, putting safe systems of work in place, providing training and information, and supervising to ensure procedures are followed. Everyone who works there has a responsibility to look after safety too: follow the rules, use equipment correctly, report hazards, and cooperate with safety measures. Because this joint responsibility ensures hazards are addressed in everyday practice, the correct view is that both employers and all employees share the responsibility. External contractors and customers have roles as well, but the day-to-day safety ownership sits with the organisation and its staff working together.