Health & Safety rules for exhibitors
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Organisers’ responsibilities
- In law, the process of organising and running an exhibition counts as a ‘work activity’ and therefore the Hillhead Quarry exhibition site is deemed to be ‘a place of work’.
- Similarly, each stand is its own separate workplace whose operators will have their own hierarchy of responsibilities and control measures.
- The organiser, QMJ Publishing Limited (QMJ) is responsible for providing a safe place of work for its staff, exhibitors, contractors and visitors.
- QMJ is not responsible for the actions or inactions of its exhibitors, but the company is responsible for requesting evidence that the exhibitor and its contractors/agents will comply with relevant legislation by ensuring the stability of stands and structures and the implementation of safe systems of work when constructing stands and using plant, equipment, materials etc on site.
- QMJ must satisfy itself, so far as it is reasonably practicable, that exhibitors have instigated an appropriate health and safety management programme, including the implementation of a suitable risk assessment for their stand and demonstration area (where appropriate) in order to assist the company in meeting its legal responsibilities.
