Introduction

This Health and Safety Workbook has been designed to help you manage health and safety within your organisation.

This workbook has been produced to assist you in the implementation and development of health and safety within your organisation.  Details of how and where to contact your local authority can be found on page 2 of this section.  Also available are information sheets on different types of activities that may be applicable to your business.  These along with leaflets covering most aspects of health and safety are available from your local authority.

Along side the main legislation i.e. Acts of Parliament and Regulations are Health and Safety Executive (HSE) Guidance Notes and Approved Codes of Practice. These are very specific and may be relevant to your business or the activities that you undertake.  Information on these is available from your local authority or HSE Books.

By systematically working through the workbook from Section 1 to Section 10, the many requirements of current legislation can be met.

The workbook provides a variety of working templates that can be copied as required and used or adapted to your own organisational requirements.

Even though all areas of health and safety cannot be fully detailed within this workbook, the main subject areas have been covered.

The workbook is designed to be a living and working document, which should be continually reviewed and updated as required.