Managing health and safety is an integral part of managing your business. You need to do a risk assessment to find out about the risks in your workplace, put sensible measures in place to control them, and make sure they stay controlled.
This section provides information on what you need to consider when managing health and safety and assessing the risks in your workplace. It shows how you can follow a ‘Plan, Do, Check, Act’ approach:
Plan: Describe how you manage health and safety in your business (your legally required policy) and plan to make it happen in practice.
Do: Prioritise and control your risks – consult your employees and provide training and information.
Check: Measure how you are doing.
Act: Learn from your experience.
- Planning for health and safety
- Writing a health and safety policy
- Controlling the risks
- Accidents and investigations
- Multi-occupancy workplaces
- Deciding who will help you with your duties
- Consulting your employees
- Providing training and information
- Providing supervision
- First aid
- Emergency procedures
- Reporting accidents, incidents and diseases
- The health and safety law poster
- Safety signs
- Insurance
- Inspectors and the law
Please Note – This article ‘Contains public sector information published by the Health and Safety Executive and licensed under the Open Government Licence’.
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