Health and safety in the workplace

Getting started

• Getting started - registration, insurance, posters

• Health and Safety at Work etc Act 1974 - HSE website

Inspections and prosecutions

• Inspections

• Prosecutions

Accidents and illness

• Eye testing and VDU

• Falls from height

• First aid

• Legionella

• Manual handling

• Reporting incidents (RIDDOR)

• Risk assessments

• Slips and trips

Premises/facilities

• Body piercing, acupuncture, tattooing, semi-permanent skin colouring, electrolysis

• Cooling towers

• Equipment at work

• Hairdressers and barbers

• Smokefree workplaces

• Spray tanning booths and guns

• Temperatures at work

• Vehicles at work

• Welfare provisions - toilets, drinking water, breaks

Hazardous substances

• Asbestos - including asbestos on business premises

• Hazardous substances

Food premises and manufacturing

For food premises health and safety requirements, contact the council Food Team.

• Phone: 0161 770 2244

For food manufacturing health and safety requirements, contact the Health and Safety Executive.

• Phone: 0161 952 8200

Council buildings, manufacturing and construction

For council buildings, manufacturing and construction health and safety requirements, contact the Health and Safety Executive.

• Phone: 0161 952 8200

Leaflets and guidance notes

Free leaflets and guidance notes or further more detailed information on legislative requirements are on the Health and Safety Executive website.

• Health & Safety Executive website

• HSE Books - resources to order

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