Health and safety information

Health and safety information makes it easier for organisations, large and small, to gain access to professional advice on safety and health issues. This has become a mandatory aspect of legislation, which requires employees to ensure health and safety in the workplace. The Act contains the principles, to which an employer must follow to ensure the health and safety of employees. Thus, this Act empowers the Health and Safety Executive with the overall responsibility of enforcement.

An employer must actively make employees aware of health and safety information and provide health and safety equipment free of charge. An employee is under an obligation to ensure the health and safety on its premises. This information states that these premises include warehouses and stores, offices and shops, garden centres and residential care homes.

The health and safety information collected from this Act states that if your company has five or more employees, the crucial risks identified by the risk assessment team must be written down and communicated to all of your employees. The law requires health and safety information policies and risk assessments to help you set your stall out and to get the balance right between the size of any problems and what you do about them.

The information revealed from this Act also requires employees to inform their employer about anything related to work, which has caused or had the potential to cause harm to themselves or to others. The monitoring of such reports is an important aspect of the control of health and safety at work.

Information must be imparted to all the employees and failing to implement required health and safety standards at the work place is a preventable risk, which can otherwise lead to prosecution and ultimately the closure of your business. The inability to update health and safety information in the work place usually leads to accidents.

Information put forward by Health and safety at Work Act 1974 was the most important piece of legislation, which involved general structure of the administration and control of safety at work.

Our professionally designed Health & SafetySmart programme offers to undertake a wide range of activities, completely at par with the health and safety information act. Health & SafetySmart aims at providing you with adequate health and safety information and relevant tasks.

Some of the impressive tasks which Health & SafetySmart undertakes are:

· Investigate accidents and seek to prevent recurrences
· Inspect premises on a routine basis for compliance with health and safety legislation
· Investigate and resolve complaints relating to workplace conditions
· Imparting health and safety information to employers and employees
· Provide advice to business proprietors who require health and safety information at work.
· Provide advice to workers, who require work related health and safety information and who have any concerns or queries, which they may need to discuss with someone outside their workplace.

Health & SafetySmart is a cost effective management tool that can be customized to meet your specific requirements. We also offer training as part of the package to ensure that your staff is well aware of the standards put forward by the Law. Our endeavour always remains to making your company a safe place to work where exists a proper flow of health and safety information.

• Health and safety at work
  Health and Safety at work law imposes a responsibility on the employer to ensure safety at the workplace for all employees.
  
  
• Health and safety audit
  Health and Safety Audit undertaken by a company helps it to identify, monitor and reduce any potential risks associated with unsuitable equipment and procedures.
  
  
• Health and safety legislation
  Health and safety legislation is aimed at safety in the workplace including consumer safety in the service area.
  
  
• Health and safety regulations
  Health and safety regulations, failure to comply with these regulations could lead to prosecution or the closure of your business.
  
  
• Health and safety information
  Health and safety information is a mandatory aspect of legislation which requires employees to ensure health and safety in the workplace.
  
  
• Accident reporting
  Accident reporting is mandatory under the RIDDOR act 1995 for most companies this is a rare act but knowing the law and following it, pays.
  
  
• COSHH - Control of substances hazardous to health
  COSHH stands for the Control of Substances Hazardous to Health and is about gathering information on all products.
  
  
• RIDDOR
  RIDDOR stands for the Reporting of Injuries, Diseases and Dangerous Occurrences Regulations 1995.