BHSEA: Integrated Safety Management Systems Seminar – Birmingham 26 June

How to manage risk and improve safety systems & performance for businesses large and small. As is traditional with Birmingham Health, Safety and Environment Association (BHSEA), seminars a workshop approach will be used whereby delegates are given practical guidance from experienced practitioners and others. Birmingham Airport, West Midlands 26 June 2012.

INDG223(rev5): Managing asbestos in buildings – A brief guide

The leaflet is for people who own, manage or have responsibilities for buildings, which may contain asbestos. This includes all non-domestic buildings, whatever the type of business, and the common areas of domestic buildings, eg halls, stairwells, lift shafts, roof spaces. The guidance does not apply to other domestic properties. This leaflet has been revised [...]

HSG137: Health risk management: A practical guide for managers in SMEs

This guidance draws on information and experience gained by HSE, with actual case studies used to illustrate particular points. The publication provides a framework for enabling managers to embed health risk control into general business planning and presents four easy-check stages, including finding out if you have a problem, deciding on action, taking action and [...]

NAPO in…Safe moves – DVD

This film shows NAPO using fork-lift trucks and other forms of internal and external workplace transport. The film is about effective organisation and management and how senior managers need to plan, implement and monitor, assess risks and take appropr…

INDG236 – Maintaining portable electric equipment in low-risk environments

This revised leaflet explains the simple and sensible precautions that need to be taken to prevent danger from portable or movable electrical equipment in low-risk environments such as offices, shops, some parts of hotels and residential care homes.

INDG236 – Maintaining portable electrical equipment in low-risk environments

This revised leaflet explains the simple and sensible precautions that need to be taken to prevent danger from portable or movable electrical equipment in low-risk environments such as offices, shops, some parts of hotels and residential care homes.

INDG236 – Maintaining portable electrical equipment in low-risk environments

This revised leaflet explains the simple and sensible precautions that need to be taken to prevent danger from portable or movable electrical equipment in low-risk environments such as offices, shops, some parts of hotels and residential care homes.

INDG231 – Electrical safety and you: A brief guide

This leaflet outlines basic electrical safety measures to help you control the risks from your use of electricity at work. The revised version clarifies the advice on maintaining portable electric equipment in low-risk environments.

INDG458 – Legionnaires’ disease A brief guide for dutyholders

This leaflet is aimed at employers and people in control of premises, eg landlords, where man-made water systems are used that could be a potential source for legionella bacteria growth.

INDG223: Managing asbestos in buildings – A brief guide

The leaflet is for people who own, manage or have responsibilities for buildings, which may contain asbestos. This includes all non-domestic buildings, whatever the type of business, and the common areas of domestic buildings, eg halls, stairwells, lif…

HSE at Safety and Health Expo 2012 – NEC, Birmingham

Safety & Health Expo 2012 is Europe’s definitive annual event, packed full of the industry’s leading manufacturers, distributors and suppliers showcasing their latest innovations. You’ll find HSE situated in hall 1, stand D30, where the HSE Online team will be on hand to show you around the website and highlight new and updated features. National [...]

GS38: Electrical test equipment for use by electricians

This guidance is for electrically competent people including electricians, electrical contractors, test supervisors, technicians, managers and/or appliance retailers. The Electricity at Work Regulations 1989 require those in control of all or part of an electrical system to ensure it is safe to use and maintained. This document provides advice and guidance on how to achieve [...]

Electric Shock: poster – First aid procedures

This poster gives basic advice on first-aid procedures if someone has an electric shock at work. This poster is not a substitute for effective first-aid training.

Accident book

The Accident Book will allow you to comply with legal requirements to record accidents at work. It also contains guidance on the Reporting of Injuries, Diseases and Dangerous Occurrences Regulations 1995 and the Health and Safety (First-Aid) Regulation…

RIDDOR reporting – Changes to injury classifications

From 6 April 2012, subject to Parliamentary approval, RIDDOR’s over three day injury reporting requirement will change. From then the trigger point will increase from over three days’ to over seven days’ incapacitation (not counting the day on wh…

Health and Safety Newsletter latest issue – Subscribe for free

All the latest HSE news, case studies, court stories, and guidance is now available to everyone free of charge – and it’s all just a click away, subscribe now. This issue: Refocusing health and safety, London 2012 building on lessons learne…

HSG261: Health and safety in motor vehicle repair and associated industries

The book covers specific health and safety issues faced by employers and the self-employed in vehicle maintenance and repair (including tyre, exhaust, and windscreen replacement); body repair, refinishing and valeting; and the roadside recovery and rep…

Health and Safety law poster – Available in various formats

The Health and Safety Executive has produced a range of health and safety law products. There are various versions of the poster, so that you can select the most appropriate for your business, depending on where in the UK your business is based.

Ports – A quick guide to health and safety

Work at ports takes place throughout the day and night and in all types of weather, you may be dealing with a whole range of cargoes and working alongside a wide variety of people, including some who don’t speak English. How this guide can help you, it highlights the main hazards found in ports and [...]

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