Health & Safety
Good Health and Safety Pays
Employers must ensure they take all reasonable steps to safeguard the health, safety and welfare of their employees and protect the public from accidents, injuries or other harm arising from their work activities. It's all about managing the risks (external link).
Environmental Health Officers (EHO's)ensure compliance with the law in the retail, wholesale and leisure sectors. The Health & Safety Executive (external link) cover manufacturing, agriculture, construction and education. At Wealden we have specialist officers in our Occupational Health and Safety Unit who can give advice on the law and how it applies to your business.
As well as inspecting businesses, EHO's also offer advice and guidance, train staff and managers, and investigate complaints and serious accidents.
Popular links
- Safety policies (external link) - writing a health and safety policy
- Workers health and safety (external link) - your rights and responsibilities
- Risk Assessment (external link) -for employers and the self employed
- Reporting Accidents (external link) - a direct link to the RIDDOR website to report an accident
- Electrical safety (external link) - for employers and the self-employed
- Management of Asbestos - if you own or manage a non-domestic buildings you can't afford to ignore this
Assess your compliance (external link)
Online tool to assess how well you're handling health and safety
Current Health and Safety Projects
- FIT 3 (external link)
- Revitalising Health and Safety (external link)
These initiatives cover the areas of work that cause the most harm, injury and disease, including
- falls from heights (external link)
- back injuries (external link)
- stress (external link)
- slips, trips and falls (external link)
- dermatitis in hairdressing (external link)
Other useful links are:
Introduction to Health and Safety booklet (pdf 250kb)
Farm risk assessment (external link) - a clear step by step guide to farm risk assessment
Laser safety (external link) in the entertainment industry
Public Register of Cooling Towers
(pdf 32kb)
Protect Your Business from the Threat of Terrorism (external link)
Centre for the Protection of National Infrastructure (CPNI) advice on how to reduce the your vulnerability
Please check our FAQ's for more guidance.