Health & Safety Requirements
The main responsibilities of an employer are:
- To provide a safe and healthy workplace, and make sure that work activities are carried out safely.
- To assess the risks to health and safety of their employees and others who may become affected by their work in order to identify safety measures, which must then be put into practice. Where there are 5 or more employees a record must be kept of the findings.
- To make provisions for organising, controlling, monitoring and reviewing all the preventivve and protective measures that this risk assessment identifies. Again, where there are 5 or more employees a record should be kept.
- To provide employees with relevant health and safety information, instructions and training.
- To establish emergency procedures to deal with, for example, fire or bomb threats.
- When the workplace is used in common with other employers, to co-operate with them on health and safety matters.
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