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Health & Safety at work act 1974

Secretary of State for Employment and Productivity Barbara Castle introduced an Employed Persons (Health and Safety) Bill in 1970 but the debate around the Bill soon generated a belief that it did not address fundamental issues of workplace safety. In the same year, the Occupational Safety and Health Act was passed into United States federal law. As a result, a committee of inquiry chaired by Lord Robens was established towards the end of Harold Wilson's first government, October 1964 - June 1970. When the Conservative Party came to power following the United Kingdom general election, 1970, they gave Castle's Bill no parliamentary time, preferring to wait for the Robens Report which was published in 1972. Conservative Secretary of State for Employment William Whitelaw introduced a new Bill on 28 January 1974 but Labour were returned to power in the United Kingdom general election, February 1974 and the Bill again lost. The new Labour administration finally secured the passage of a Bill that year.

the health and safety at work act is an act that was made by the british government. this act defines the fundamental structure and authority for the encouragement, regulation and enforcement of workplace Health, safety and welfare within the United Kingdom.

The Act defines general duties on employers, employees, contractors, suppliers of goods and substances for use at work, persons in control of work premises, those who manage and maintain them, and persons in general. This Act provides a critical interface with the law of the European Union on workplace health and safety, and if this act is used badly in any way then there can be penalties of unlimited fines or even prison sentences.

Data Protection act 1984

The Data Protection Act 1984 has now been replaced by the Data Protection Act 1998,

which is based on the European Data Protection Directive. The 1998 Act applies to both
manual and computerised personal files and requires transparency in the use of
information and emphasises the need for privacy and access by individuals. Information
on how to make a request for access to personal data under the Act may be obtained
from the Human Resources Officer.

The primary purpose of current data protection legislation is to protect individuals

against possible misuse of information about them held by others. in our colleges state It is the policy of the College to ensure that all members of the College and its staff are aware of the
requirements of data protection legislation.

There are eight principles put in place by the Data Protection Act 1998 to make sure
that individual’s information is handled properly. These principles require that personal
data shall:

be fairly and lawfully processed;be processed for limited purposes

 

be adequate, relevant and not excessive

 

be accurate and kept up-to-date

 

not be kept for longer than is necessary

 

be processed in accordance with data subject's rights

 

be kept secure

 not be transferred to countries without adequate protection.

Copyright, Designs and Patents 1988

Copyright gives the creators of some types of media rights to control how they're used and distributed. Music, books, video and software can all be covered by copyright law.
When you buy software, for example, copyright law forbids you from:

giving a copy to a friend
making a copy and then selling it
using the software on a network (unless the licence allows it)
renting the software without the permission of the copyright holder

Software companies take many steps to stop software piracy

An agreement between the company that developed the software and the user must be agreed before the software is installed. This is called the license agreement and covers copyright.
Certain pieces of software require a unique licence key to be entered before the installation will continue.
Some applications or programs will only run if the media (CD / DVD) is in the drive.
Some applications or programs will only run if a special piece of hardware called a dongle is plugged into the back of the computer.

FAST was founded in 1984 by the software industry and is now supported by over 1,200 companies. It is a not-for-profit organisation with an aim to prevent software piracy and has a policy of prosecuting anyone found to be breaching copyright law.
FAST also works to educate the public about good software practice and legal requirements.

e government

E-Government (short for electronic government, also known as e-gov, digital government, online government, or connected government) is digital interactions between a government and citizens (G2C), government and businesses/Commerce (G2B), government and employees (G2E), and also between government and governments /agencies (G2G). Essentially, the e-Government delivery models can be briefly summed up as (Jeong, 2007).

E-government describes the use of technologies to facilitate the operation of government and the dispersement of government information and services. E-government, short for electronic government, deals heavily with Internet and non-internet applications to aid in governments. E-government includes the use of electronics in government as large-scale as the use of telephones and fax machines, as well as surveillance systems, tracking systems such as RFID tags, and even the use of television and radios to provide government-related information and services to the citizens.

how technology has changed

tool man

In John’s current line of work he carries around various things to make his life a little easier. He carries around a large diary, an address book, a large road atlas and numerous A –Z’s. He also carries around a bunch of coins for pay phones. Other things he carries around are things like calculators and bulky sales catalogues. He has problems sometimes with being late and getting into traffic jams. There a multiple in which John’s life could be improved with the aid of ICT. I will develop these ways below:

PDA – a ‘Personal Digital Assistant’ also known as a palmtop computer, this is basically a computer in your hand but this has vastly become obsolete with up and coming smartphones.

GPS – this stands for global positioning system. This is a type of equipment that uses satellites to find out where you are and where you want to go. This type of technology could help John out majorly in his endeavours. This piece would help him in many ways; one of these ways is that he would have to carry around a big Atlas and a bunch of A –Z’s because it will all be in the GPS. This will tell John exactly where to go with the directions; it also gives you a time of your arrival so he will never have to be late again. Also if John runs into traffic he can always change the route and go a different way around the traffic and still make it to his destination.

Internet – the internet will probably be the best thing that John will use in his travels. With the internet he will be able to find countless routes to a certain destination. One of the best things he will be able to do with the internet is he will be able to find out if there is any traffic during his route, this can also be used to find out if there are any delays on the way like road works or road accidents. Also he would be able to show client DIY tools and things of the kind without actually taking a bulky catalogue of the items. This will be achievable by going onto the website.

Mobile phone – a mobile phone is a must have in today’s business and with jobs of this job. Getting a smart phone would mean that he would no longer need to carry around all of the equipment he uses. You can get almost anything on your phone now because of the aid of things within the phone. Firstly he would no longer need to carry around maps and things like that because most phones have GPS in built to them and if they don’t you can always get an app for a GPS system. Also a diary and an address book come as a standard in phones now so he will no longer need to carry around countless books, he would just need to put everything into the phone and update details or put new details in. this will also help him in the case that he will no longer need to carry around small change for pay phones. He would be able to get a mobile phone contract and will be able to call at any time when he needs to. On phones, you can now get countless apps on your phone so that anything that John needs will be right there at his finger-tips this would be very useful if the company he works for has a website app, this would make it easy for him to access the certain things he needs to let people look at and show. Another thing that he could use his phone for is an MP3 player this, this would mean he would no longer need to carry around CD’s with him and he could fit a lot more songs onto his phone then he could with a couple of CD’s.

Laptop – on his laptop he would basically be able to do most of the same things that he does on his phone but will be able to do it on a larger scale. One thing that the laptop can be useful for that is more effective than a phone is that he will be able present things to people more effectively with the help of making a presentation or writing a detailed description of the things that he is selling. With the help of a laptop he can also use it to send emails to people and set reminders for himself in the case of appointments. Also his auditing could become a lot easier because he could just use a piece of software that means he could have all of the things that he has sold all in one place rather than in multiple places.

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