Health and Safety
Whatever your business there are some general requirements that apply to every employer that you must comply with. This can seem daunting at first but you can break it down into these four essential headings:
You must set out how you will manage safety and who will be responsible;
You must involve your employees;
You must risk assess the work;
You must provide certain facilities;
Where do you start?
Managing Safety
Use the INDG259 free download to write down who is responsible and read this document L21 management of health and safety for background guidance
Involve your staff
Involve your staff in the risk assessment process L146 Consulting workers on health and safety.
Risk Assessment
- List all the work activities, including the non-core activities such as evening cleaners and weekend maintenance (five steps).
- Alongside those activities who could be harmed and how that might happen if things went wrong.
- Alongside those write down what you already do to prevent that happening e.g.
Provide adequate welfare facilities
Check that your workplace facilities comply with the minimum standards set out here L24 workplace health and safety.
The following pages provide information specific to some types of business and free downloads of the official guidance that applies in some of the more common workplace situations.
For anything not covered here please call us and we will be happy to advise you without obligation. We can of course do all this for you if that is what you would prefer.
