Simple Health & Safety Checklist

There are a number of key things you must do to comply with health & safety regulations and a number of ways to make it as easy as possible. Use the checklist below to ensure you understand your main responsibilities and then call us for more detailed information.

1. Decide what could cause harm to people and how to take precautions. This is your risk assessment.
2. Decide how you are going to manage health & safety in your business. If you have five or more employees you need to write this down. This is your health & safety policy.
3. If you employ anyone you need Employers Liability Compulsory Insurance.
4. You must provide free health & safety training for your workers so they know what hazards and risks they may face and how to deal with them.
5. You must have competent advice to help you meet your health & safety duties. This can be workers from your business, external consultants/advisers or a combination of these.
6. You need to provide toilets, washing facilities and drinking water for all your employees, including those with disabilities. These are basic health & safety and welfare needs.
7. You must consult employees on health & safety matters.
8. If you have employees you must display the health & safety law poster or provide workers with a leaflet with the same information.
9. If you are an employer, self-employed or in control of work premises, by law you must report some work-related accidents, deseases and dangerous occurrences.