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Write a health and safety policy for your business
What you should include in your health and safety policy, why it is important to have one and how to implement it effectively.
Coronavirus: Workplace safety guidelines
Workplace guidelines and measures to help prevent the transmission of coronavirus.
Employers' health and safety responsibilities
The main health and safety practices that you must carry out in your business including staff training, a health and safety policy and risk assessment.
Business benefits of good health and safety
The benefits to your business of having good health and safety practices including protecting your staff injuries and illness and reducing absences.
Assess the risks of working at height
Identifying common causes of falls in your business and their likelihood such as falls from ladders, scaffolding, roofs, gangways, catwalks and vehicles.
Meeting our legal requirements for health and safety (video)
Learn how other start-up businesses met health and safety legislation such as a risk assessment including home businesses, offices and construction sites.
Meeting health and safety requirements (video)
Find out your duty of care to health and safety in your workspace with this short video summary of the rules and requirements you must follow and best practice.
Health and safety basics for business
How to meet your business' basic health and safety responsibilities to protect your employees, customers and visitors and what the benefits are to you.
Work safely at height or in a confined space
Complying with rules to reduce the risks of falls from height and of working in a confined enclosed space to protect yourself and your employees from injury.
Health and safety risk assessment for agency workers
Employers and agencies must include agency workers in risk assessments and both have certain responsibilities for carrying these risk assessments out.
Provide agency workers with personal protective equipment
Equipment and procedures for protecting agency workers' health and safety including types of protective equipment and who is responsible for providing it.
Agency workers and health and safety information and training
Communication and instruction is essential for agency workers' health and safety, it is vital workers have the right training to safely carry out their jobs.
Co-operate to protect agency workers' health and safety
Shared responsibility for workers requires a co-ordinated approach to health and safety between the employment agency and the business using the workers.
Who is responsible for agency workers' health and safety?
User businesses and agencies share responsibility for agency workers' health and safety, duties depend on who the employer is and what the contract states.
Agency workers' health and safety
What businesses, agencies and the workers themselves must do to protect agency workers' health and safety, how to work with the agency and assess risks.
Additional responsibilities for upper tier COMAH-regulated sites
What you must do to ensure a top tier site meets Control of Major Accident Hazards (COMAH) Regulations requirements including submitting a safety report.
Does COMAH apply to my business?
How a business is categorised under the Control of Major Accident Hazards Regulations depending on the amount of substances they handle and who regulates COMAH.
Control of major accident hazards (COMAH)
What you must do to prevent and control major accidents if your business handles large quantities of dangerous substances in line with COMAH regulations.
Develop an effective sales team
Assessing the need to take on sales staff and how to find the most effective salespeople and motivate them to perform.
How to manage your brand
The ways you can communicate your brand and get your brand message across including storytelling and credibility.