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How to complain about a health and safety inspector
The complaints procedure if you're unhappy about an inspector's recommendations after the health and safety visit or think they are unreasonable.
What to expect from a health and safety visit
What to expect from a health and safety inspector, and the implications of improvement or prohibition notices.
Record your safety risk assessment findings and implement them
How to record your findings after a risk assessment and put a plan of action in place to prioritise and mitigate or remove the risks you have identified.
Review your health and safety risk assessment
How to review your risk assessment on an ongoing basis to identify hazards or risks from any new equipment, substances or procedures in the workplace.
Occupational health risks
Tackling key threats to staff welfare - from stress and drug abuse to repetitive strain injury and exposure to hazards.
Benefits of promoting occupational health
Preventing illness and injury among employees by reducing the risks posed by their environment can cut costs and improve work performance and quality.
Occupational health concerns in different industries
Employee welfare issues in a range of sectors - from construction and agriculture to transport and food.
Manage occupational health risks
Measures to ensure your workplace is a healthy and safe area for your employees.
Occupational health and welfare
How to prevent and manage illness, injury and other ill effects, including social ones, stemming from the workplace by properly managing occupational health.
Set up a health and safety management system
Using management systems to reduce health and safety risks and continually improve health and safety management in your business.
Safe storage methods for waste, timber, glass and textiles
Storage advice for specific materials - waste, timber, glass and textiles – in order to reduce the risks of potential health and safety hazards.
Safe storage of dangerous or hazardous materials
Key steps to reducing the risks of storing dangerous materials, and rules on the storage of oil and risks of fire and explosion.
Assess the risks of goods storage
Identifying possible hazards caused by storing goods and materials and analysing the likelihood of them occurring in order to reduce potential risks.
Safe use of shelves, racks and pallets
Installing and using shelving and racking units safely by following appropriate guidelines, installation instructions and spacing.
Off-site storage safety
Key issues and risks when storing goods and materials away from your premises and steps to take in order to reduce health and safety risks.
Storing goods and materials safely
Assessing and controlling the risks of storing products and materials, including hazardous materials, food and specific materials like glass, wood and textiles.
The arrangements section of your health and safety policy
What you should include in the arrangements section of your health and safety policy including information on hazards and risk assessment.
Implementing your health and safety policy
How to check your health and safety policy helps manage risks and prevents accidents through regular monitoring and consulting staff.
What should be in your health and safety policy?
The information you need to set out in your health and safety policy including the statement of general policy, responsibilities and arrangement sections.
The responsibilities section of your health and safety policy
Deciding who will carry out risk assessments, inspections and ensure health and safety – this could be you, an employee or someone external.