Search results
Welfare facilities at work
Your legal duty to provide welfare facilities for employees, such as toilets, drinking water and clothes storage.
Healthy and safe working environment
How to ensure that you provide a health working environment for your employees, including ventilation, lighting and space.
Safe working temperatures
Reasonable temperatures for a working environment, when you should send staff home and how to manage extreme temperatures.
Workplace welfare facilities and healthy working environment
How to comply with employee welfare regulations in the workplace by providing facilities and maintaining a safe, healthy working environment.
Health and safety risk assessment
The key steps that all businesses should follow when carrying out a health and safety risk assessment to identify and mitigate hazards and comply with the law.
Assess the health and safety risks in your business
How you can assess the risks in your business and work to reduce them by carrying out a proper risk assessment that identifies and minimises safety hazards.
Identify health and safety hazards
How to identify any potential causes of harm or injury in your workplace as part of a risk assessment by walking around, looking at records and talking to staff.
Evaluate health and safety risks and decide on precautions
Assessing the risks at your place of work and developing systems to avoid these hazards and accidents such as issuing protective equipment or reducing exposure.
Safe manual handling at work
Protecting employees from the risks of carrying, lifting, pushing and pulling loads by assessing and reducing the risks and ensuring staff are properly trained.
Key health and safety management legal obligations
Staying up to date with your legal responsibilities for health and safety to protect staff, customers and visitors, have liability insurance and have a policy.
Control and review your health and safety management systems
Keeping records and driving continual improvement of health and safety management through setting targets, regular reviews and audits.
What are animal by-products?
What is animal by-product waste, and when catering waste is considered animal by-product waste.
Animal by-products and food waste
Complying with the animal by-products regulations - how to deal with animal bodies, animal parts and food waste.
Disposing of food and catering waste
How to dispose of food, catering waste, former foodstuffs and international catering waste.
Disposing of animal carcasses
How to dispose of animal carcasses including farmed animals, pets and wild animals, and where to find advice.
Disposing of animal by-products
How to dispose of animal by-products by each risk category - approved premises, treatment and disposal.
Animal by-product categories
Different categories of animal by-products reflect the level of risk to public and animal health.
Transporting animal by-products
How to transport animal by-products, who is authorised to do so and what documentation you need.
Handling and storing animal by-products
How to handle and store animal by-products, and comply with labelling and record keeping duties.
EU protected food name schemes
Description of the four EU protected food name schemes which protect registered product names when they are sold in Northern Ireland.