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Health & Safety and How to Comply A Handbook for Businesses www.southglos.gov.uk e-mail: [email protected] 9 FINDING A WAY FORWARD... (Bristol) Limited ARE YOUR DEBTS CAUSING YOU WORRY? 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The aims of South Gloucestershire risk you need to know about, your Council are to protect the Health, Safety responsibilities under the regulations and Welfare of employees and to and tells you where you can get more safeguard others, principally the public, information on each particular subject. who may be exposed to risks from work No matter what your business, you can activities. We are also committed to the use this booklet as a first step in success of the business community in learning more about Health and Safety. the district. The Health and Safety staff in the The reality is that every working day over Environmental Services Department are 6000 people in Great Britain are injured dedicated professionals who are at work. 300 people a year tragically lose committed to improving workplace their lives at work , around 158,000 non- health, safety and welfare and assisting fatal injuries are reported each year and businesses to comply by education and an estimated 2.2 million people suffer ill consultation rather than confrontation. health caused or made worse by work. The mistake is to believe that these Unless otherwise stated, all the things only happen in exceptional guidance referred to in this publication circumstances and that they could never may be obtained from HSE books. (HSE occur in your workplace – this is not the Books, PO Box 1999, Sudbury, Suffolk, case. CO10 2WA. Tel: 01787 881165. Website: www.hsebooks.co.uk) Accidents, absenteeism through work- related ill health and consequently If you require help or assistance on any higher liability insurance premiums, health and safety at work issue, please affect everyone in South do not hesitate to contact us – we are Gloucestershire. This booklet is an here to help. introduction to health and safety in the Les Pursglove workplace. It highlights the key areas of Head of Environmental Services 5 ENFORCING HEALTH AND SAFETY LAW What can I expect when an needs to be done, why, within what Inspector calls? period, and what law applies. An inspector’s role is to make sure that Improvement Notice – Where health your business has acceptable standards and safety legislation has been of health, safety and welfare. They will breached this notice requires you to put tell you what you are required to do by things right within a certain time. The law. You can expect: time limit would be discussed with you • Courtesy and assistance during the Prohibition Notice – Require you to inspection stop doing something until things are • Fairness and consistency put right. This would only be issued if • Advice and information the inspector considers there to be a risk of serious injury. • An inspection of the workplace and health and safety documentation The inspector will follow up on any •Proof of identification notice to check what has been done. Failure to comply is a serious offence The law states that an inspector can call and may lead to prosecution. Health at any reasonable time. Visits by and Safety law gives the courts inspectors will normally be unannounced considerable scope for punishing routine inspections, or in response to an offenders and deterring others. For accident or complaint. example, a failure to comply with an How will I know the result of an improvement or prohibition notice Inspection? carries a fine of up to £20,000, or six At the end of a visit, inspectors will months imprisonment, or both. Higher discuss with the business what further courts may impose unlimited fines, and action, if any, they are going to take. in some cases, imprisonment. On finding a breach of health and safety It is of no benefit to an organisation, no law, the inspector will decide what matter how large or small, to simply action to take. The action will depend think that once an inspector is satisfied on the nature of the breach. and goes away, everything can return to how it was previously. Health and safety Informal Notice – In the form of letters is an issue that will not simply go away. It or premises inspection reports. is a legal duty on all employers and Any correspondence will be sent as employees alike and it needn’t cost the soon as practicable and, if appropriate, earth. the inspector will tell the business at Copies of the Environmental Health Services time of the visit when they should Enforcement Policy are available by contacting us. expect a letter. Where remedial action is required the letter will set out what 6 Telephone: 01454 868001 Email: [email protected] How to Appeal: When a notice is issued you will be told in writing about your right of appeal to an Employment Tribunal, and given a form to use for that appeal. You will be told – • Where and within what time, an appeal may be brought • That an appeal may be brought on any grounds • That action required by an Improvement Notice is suspended while an appeal is pending. (The procedures