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.

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.

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

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.