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    About the Health and Safety Service

    Our health and safety service is defined in the latest Health & Safety Service Plan 2008/9 attached.
    A team of officers enforce health, safety and welfare at work legislation in businesses throughout East Hampshire. Accidents at work are investigated and advice given on best practice and how to comply with statutory requirements. The team has a comprehensive stock of guidance notes and pamphlets on an extensive range of work activities and situations which are available free for employers and employees. Should you wish us to send copies of any leaflets or ask us any health and safety related questions, please use the email links .  You may also download many leaflets from this website.
     
    Enforcement of Health and Safety Legislation
     
    Generally Health and Safety Legislation is split between the Health and Safety Executive (HSE) and Local Authorities.
     
    The HSE enforce:
    Factories, mines and quarries, building sites, farms, railways, chemical plant and offshore and nuclear installations.
     
    Local Authorities enforce:
    Shops, warehouses, offices, hotels and catering, sports, leisure sevices (such as hair dressers, laundrettes), residential care homes and churches.
     
    Environmental Health Officers and Health and Safety Inspectors from Local Authorities normally make visits to businesses for health and safety issues.
     
    The role of Environmental Health Officers 
     
    The main role of Environmental Health Officers/ Health & Safety Inspectors is to find ways to prevent accidents and ill health in the workplace. This can be achieved in the following ways:
    • Inspecting workplaces to ensure that risks from work are properly managed
    • Helping people meet their legal responsibilities
    • Making recommendations for good practice
    • Investigating accidents or occupational ill-health
    • Investigating complaints about working conditions or work practices
    • Acting as source of advice on any aspect of health and safety
    • Promoting awareness and knowledge of safety issues through campaigns, seminars or training courses
    Health and Safety topics

    Health and Safety at Work   Information and training    Legislation

    Manual handling       PUWER-LOLER legislation       Risk Assessment

    Safety precautions   Slips, Trips and Falls   Stress       Tools

    Welfare at work     Working at heights     Workplace Safety

    Young workers 

     


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