Legal Legislation
The Occupational Health and Safety Act of 1993 as well as more recent legislation states that employers are obliged to ensure the safety of their employees at work and if necessary, and to supply them with appropriate footwear and clothing as may be necessary to reduce such risks to which they are exposed.
General duties of employers to their employees1. Every employer shall provide and maintain … a work environment that is safe and without risk to the health of his employees
2. Without derogating from the generality of an employer’s duties under subsection (1), the matters to which those duties refer include in particular:
| a.  | the provision and maintenance of systems of work that …are safe and without risks to health; |
| b.  | taking such steps as may be reasonably practicable to eliminate or mitigate any hazard or potential hazard … |
| c.  | making arrangements for ensuring, as far as is reasonably practicable, the safety and absence of risks to health … |
| d.  | establishing, …what hazards to the health or safety of persons are attached to any work …and …establish what precautionary measures should be taken with respect to such work,…to protect the health and safety of persons, and he shall provide the necessary means to apply such precautionary measures; |
| e.  | providing such information, instructions,…(to safeguard) the health and safety at work of his employees; |
| f.  | not permit any employee to do any work … unless the precautionary measures have been taken; |
| g.  | taking all necessary measures to ensure that the requirements of this Act are complied with by every person in his employment or on premises under his control … |
| h.  | enforcing such measures as may be necessary in the interest of health and safety; |
