Find advice for businesses and employees in Eastbourne about health and safety at work, from the council's Environmental Health Officers.
Business Help Getting Started
In this section...
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Find resources from our awareness campaigns - publications and tools from our local business advice campaigns and free training events, and supporting national campaigns in partnership with the HSE
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Check what we do and do not do - and where to find help. Find out about our inspections and Enforcement Policy - what to expect when our health and safety inspectors call. Our Service Plan and achievements
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Contact or notify us - ask us for advice or complain about a workplace, report an accident online, notify us of ASB5 asbestos work, cooling towers or lift examination and testing
On the Health and Safety Executive website...
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Find advice on health and safety topics (external link) - including asbestos, first aid at work, falls from height, slips and trips, back pain, MSDs (including manual handling and display screen equipment), gas safety, electrical safety, chemicals and COSHH, noise at work, violence at work, workplace temperatures, stress, new or expectant mothers, Legionnaires' Disease and many more
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Find advice on employing young people (external link) - the law, risks to young people, work experience, advice for parents and carers, and the Speak Up Stay Safe campaign. (Young people can also get advice using the link from this page to the IOSH Wiseup2work website)
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Discover the business benefits (external link) - protect your workers, save absence costs, save recruitment costs, save insurance costs, protect your reputation and improve productivity - lead and promote, involve your workers and manage absence and return to work
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Find advice for your type of business (external link) - more detailed industry guidance, including catering and hospitality, hairdressing, laundries and dry cleaners, retail shops and many more
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Find HSE publications and resources (external link) - newsletters, free leaflets to download, audio and video, presentations and case studies, free downloads of books and guidance or order printed copies from HSE Books
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Be sensible about health and safety (external link) - find out about improving the way health and safety is applied and tackling the compensation culture. Ridiculous media myths detract from the real business of managing risks sensibly. Sensible risk management is about practical steps to protect people from real harm and suffering - saving lives, not stopping them.
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Health and Safety Myth Busters Challenge Panel (external link) - "Health and Safety" is often used as a convenient excuse to stop essentially sensible activities going ahead. If you think a decision or advice you have been given by non-regulators such as insurers, health and safety consultants or employers in the name of health and safety is wrong, or disproportionate to what you are doing, you can complain to the panel.
You are at: www.eastbourne.gov.uk/safety