•Everyone has a duty to comply with the Act, including employers, employees, trainees, self-employed, manufacturers, suppliers, designers, importers of work equipment.

Employers responsibilties•Provide and maintain safety equipment and safe systems of work. •Ensure materials used are properly stored, handled, used and transported. •Provide information, training, instruction and supervision. •Ensure staff are aware of instructions provided by manufacturers and suppliers of equipment. •Provide a safe working environment. •Provide a written safety policy/risk assessment. •Look after health and safety of others, example public.

Employees responsibilities•Take care of their own health and safety and that of other people. Employees may be liable. •Co-operate with their employers. •Must not interfere with anything provided in the interest of health and safety.

The Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988, is the current UK copyright law. It gives the creators of literary, dramatic, musical and artistic works the right to control the ways in which their material may be used. The rights cover: Broadcast and public performance, copying, adapting, issuing, renting and lending copies to the public.

Types of work that is protected•Literary •Dramatic •Musical .•Artistic •Typographical arrangement of published editions•Sound recordings•Films

The sign to protect organisations against copyright

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•Personal data should be obtained and processed fairly and lawfully

•Personal data can be held only for specified and lawful purposes

•Personal data should be adequate, relevant and not excessive for the required purpose

•Personal data should be accurate and kept up-to-date

•Personal data should not be kept for longer than is necessary

•Data must be processed in accordance with the rights of the data subject

•Appropriate security measures must be taken against unauthorised access

•Personal data cannot be transferred to countries outside the E.U. unless the country has similar legislation to the D.P.A.

Eight principles that organisations must follow:

There are three specific offences for this law:•Unauthorised access to computer material (that is, a program or data). •Unauthorised access to a computer system with intent to commit a serious crime.

•Unauthorised modification of computer material.

Hacking has been around almost as long as the Internet; some people just love to try and break into a computer system.There was no legislation in place to tackle the problems caused by hacking. Although everyone knew that it was wrong and should be against the law, there was nothing that anyone could do about it.