Health and safety guidance to be free online

Health and safety guidance to be free online

Businesses will soon have free access to authoritative guidance about how to protect employees from workplace dangers.

From September 2009, the Health and Safety Executive (HSE) will make around 250 priced publications containing health and safety advice and guidance freely available from its website in PDF format, to view and print. The publications cover the full range of HSE’s guidance, as well as approved codes of practice (ACOPs) and guidance on regulations. HSE is making the information available to help employers better understand their legal duties and what health and safety precautions they need to take, and to help safety representatives in maintaining and improving health and safety in the workplace. Businesses will still have the option to buy professionally produced, printed versions from HSE Books. Although the publications will be made freely available online, Crown copyright will still apply, and organisations wishing to reproduce the information will need an appropriate licence from the Office of Public Sector Information (OPSI).

For more information, visit the HSE website

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