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Small Business Help - Getting Started on Health and Safety

Health and Safety Made Simple
Go to the Health and Safety Made Simple website for the basics for your business...

Find advice, publications and online tools to help new and small businesses.

If you think health and safety has to be complicated - it does not.

In this section...

Health and Safety Made Simple

Health and Safety Made Simple is a website which will make it easier for you to comply with the law and manage health and safety in your business.

For many businesses, all that is required is a basic series of tasks. Health and Safety Made Simple will take you through the steps and help you make sure you have done what you need to - and no more:

  • Health and Safety Made Simple (external link) - the basics for your business: decide who will help with your duties, write a health and safety policy, manage risks, consult your employees, provide training and information, provide the right workplace facilities and first aid, report accidents, display the health and safety law poster, get insurance, and keep up to date

An Introduction to Health and Safety Booklet

An Introduction to Health and Safety booklet is a basic guide for small businesses, including two ready-made self-assessment forms for a risk assessment and a health and safety policy:

Health and Safety Law Poster

All employers have a legal duty to display the new Health and Safety Law Poster in a prominent position in each workplace, or provide each worker with a copy of the equivalent leaflet. Employers have until 5 April 2014 to replace their copies of the old poster or leaflet:

You are at: www.eastbourne.gov.uk/safetybooklet

Contact Details

  • Tel 01323 410000