Health and Safety Advice

The Health and Safety Law Poster and Leaflet - Health and Safety Law: What you need to know

If you employ anyone, you must display HSE’s health and safety law poster. Or you can give your employees a leaflet called: Health and Safety Law: What you need to know.

The poster and leaflets include basic health and safety information and identifies who is responsible for health and safety in your workplace. You must display the poster where your workers can easily read it, and it must be in a readable condition. You must also include some contact details, for example of your local enforcing authority.

As from 6 April 2009, HSE has published new versions of its approved health and safety poster and leaflet. To avoid an unnecessary burden on business, HSE has set a five year transition period. The current poster and leaflets must be replaced by the new versions by no later than 5 April 2014.

Please see the Health and Safety Executive link below for further information or to purchase a poster.

HSE’s Local Authority Construction Engagement (LACE) Project, focusing on health and safety standards in construction.

If you are having construction or refurbishment work done, you may need to notify the Health and Safety Executive (HSE) and you may have other duties as well - find out more.

Please see the Health and Safety Executive link below for advice or further information.

Noise at Work Regulations 2005 - Noise at Work in the Entertainment Sector

As of April 2008 the Noise at Work Regulations applied to the entertainment sector.  For further information please see the Noise Poster in the Resource box below.

For general advice on health and safety legislation, hygiene and good practice in the hair and beauty industry, visit the  HABIA website found in the External link box below, which also advises on hygiene and good practice relating to nail treatments.

Further Information

If you require information or advice on legal, technical or other aspects of occupational health and safety then it may be possible that the relevant enforcing authority will be able to help or at least point you toward someone who will be able to help.

For information please make contact using any of the following means:

Environmental Health Commercial
(open 0830 to 1715 Mondays to Thursdays, 0830 to 1645 Fridays)
Tel: 01432 261761
Fax: 01432 261982
Email: info@herefordshire.gov.uk

Health and Safety Executive (HSE)
Infoline
Tel: 08701 545500
Fax: 02920 859260
Email: hseinformationservices@natbrit.com

You may also obtain advice from the following organisations:-

Herefordshire Health & Safety Group
Secretary: Amber Coffin
Email: amber@herefordhsg.co.uk

Chamber of Commerce Herefordshire and Worcestershire
Tel: 0845 641 1641
Fax: 0845 641 4641
Email: enquiries@hwchamber.co.uk

Resources

Noise at Work Poster

Adobe PDF

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If you need help to understand a document, or would like it in another format or language, please call 01432 260500 or email info@herefordshire.gov.uk

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