Health and safety

With information and sound advice, living up to your legal responsibilities to safeguard your employees, customers and visitors need not be difficult or costly.

Effective workplace health and safety management minimises the risk of accidents and cuts costs. Every business needs a health and safety policy.

Health and safety risk assessment helps you identify and control the main health and safety risks in your business. For most businesses, it is quite straightforward.

Environmental management has become increasingly important over recent years as the volume of environmental legislation and regulations increases.

A risk assessment identifies the risks posed by your workplace, practices and processes. This checklist helps you identify, eliminate or reduce them.

There are a number of simple steps that can help minimise the chances of an accident happening, and the implications in the event that one does.

Every business has an impact on the environment. Find out your legal obligations and what you can do to minimise problems in the future.

Do you know what your obligations for health and safety or risk assessment are? These FAQs can help you understand your responsibilities.

Our guide to health and safety risk assessment, including the most common risks and how to manage them, and what paperwork you need to keep.

Managing basic health and safety need not be costly or complicated. Following this common-sense checklist can help minimise most risks.

You must ensure your workplace meets a range of health and safety requirements. This article covers the minimim standards your workplace must meet.

This Health & Safety Executive advice aims to simplify risk assessments and helps you identify, assess and control workplace hazards

You cannot simply throw your waste away. Your carrier must be licensed to handle your waste. Use this register to check your carrier is licensed.

Most small shops pose minimal health and safety risk but you must still carry out a risk assessment. Create a shop risk assessment with this tool.

The Health and Safety Executive has produced these example risk assessments showing how they expect a small business to take to risk assessment.

Health and Safety calculators and ready-reckoners to help you assess employees' exposure to noise

Read this leaflet from the Health and Safety Executive to find out more about what you need to do as an employer to keep your homeworkers safe.

Businesses are subject a number of key health and safety responsibilities. This Health and Safety Executive guide covers the key issues.

If you regularly transport waste generated by your business, you need to register as a waste carrier. Use this tool to register as a waste carrier.