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Health and safety

Our health and safety section covers general health and safety within a low-risk environment. Read our guides to ensure you keep within the law and follow best practice.
 
Health and safety - legal minimum requirements Paid up members, or Pay as you go.
Health and safety - employee responsibilities Paid up members only.
Risk assessments Paid up members, or Pay as you go.
Health and safety representatives Paid up members, or Pay as you go.
Step by step health and safety meetings Paid up members, or Pay as you go.

 
Accident reporting and records Paid up members, or Pay as you go.
Alcohol and drug abuse in the workplace Paid up members only.
Asbestos Paid up members only.
Blood-borne viruses
Paid up members only.The Control of Substances Hazardous to Health Regulations (COSHH) Paid up members, or Pay as you go.
The Corporate Manslaughter and Corporate Homicide Act Paid up members only.
Disabled workers - health and safety considerations Paid up members, or Pay as you go.

 
Display screen equipment (VDUs) Paid up members, or Pay as you go.
Driving on business Paid up members, or Pay as you go.
Driving - use of mobile phones Paid up members, or Pay as you go.
Electricity at work Paid up members only.
Fire Paid up members, or Pay as you go.
First aid Paid up members, or Pay as you go.
Working at height Paid up members, or Pay as you go.
Home workers Paid up members, or Pay as you go.
Working in hot temperatures Paid up members, or Pay as you go.
Legionella Paid up members only.
Lone workers Paid up members only.
Manual handling Paid up members, or Pay as you go.
Night workers Paid up members, or Pay as you go.
Noise at work Paid up members, or Pay as you go.
Occupational health services (OHS) Paid up members only.
Personal protective equipment (PPE) Paid up members, or Pay as you go.
Portable electrical appliances Paid up members only.
Pregnant workers and women of child-bearing age Paid up members, or Pay as you go.
Road Transport (Working Time) Regulations Paid up members only.
Slips, trips and falls Paid up members only.
Smoking Paid up members, or Pay as you go.
Stress at work Paid up members, or Pay as you go.
Vibration Paid up members, or Pay as you go.
Workplace violence Paid up members, or Pay as you go.
 
 
 
Further advice Paid up members, or Pay as you go.
Health and safety documents
What's new?
  • RIDDOR: as from 6 April 2012, the period an employee has to be absent before the employer has to report a worlplace accident increased from three to seven days.
    See: accident reporting Paid up members, or Pay as you go.
  • The Control of Asbestos Regulations 2012 came into force on 6 April 2012. These replace the Control of Asbestos Regulations 2006, and create a new category of low risk work, known as 'notifiable non-licensed work'. Employers undertaking certain types of low risk asbestos work will be required to notify the relevant authority of the work, carry out medical examinations and keep registers of work with asbestos.
    See: asbestos Paid up members only.

 
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