Small Business Updates from Health and Safety Executive
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A compilation of films for small businesses, Originally broadcast on BBC2 as 10 half-hour programmes. A variety of small businesses show how they have successfully dealt health and safety issues. The content has been updated as much as possible to reflect for example, recent changes to smoking in the workplace and noise exposure limits.
Signposts for health [...]
Do you run or manage a small business? - ensure that the advice and guidance you get on health and safety is accurate and expert. British Safety Council (BSC) conference - Small business and health and safety, Hilton London Euston, 17-18 Woburn Place, Bloomsbury, London. 10 October 2008: 09:00-12:15
For full details and booking information of the BSC [...]
Free event 3 – 4 September, this two-day conference and exhibition offers practical advice and business expertise for owners, directors and entrepreneurs running small to medium sized businesses. National Indoor Athletic Centre, Cardiff.
For further details and registration for Ideal Business Show Wales
A number of Health and safety related events are being held throughout Scotland in the next few months, beginning with a noise and vibration seminar in Hamilton on 26 August.
View events in Scotland
As part of the two year European risk assessment campaign we have put together some information on risk management and risk assessment to help small businesses in the printing and publishing industries.
View information on risk assessment in printing
HSE has launched a new website offering advice and guidance on health and safety topics in the retail industry such as slips and trips, manual handling and falls from height.
View the retail industry website
Benchmark tools for large and small organisations to help you measure how well your business health and safety performance is doing.
View the bench mark tools
Updated leaflet - It explains what a health and safety awareness officer (HSAO) is and what they do.It also tells you what you can expect when an HSAO calls and what happens following their visit.
View leaflet [PDF 80KB]
Businesses in Scotland will be encouraged to learn from their peers as part of a new initiative to tackle fatalities, injuries and illness in the workplace. Aimed specifically at small and medium sized companies (SMEs), the initiative will use a new approach to health and safety in Scotland - using higher performing businesses to share their [...]
A summary of the fourth progress report from the evaluation of the Workplace Health Connect (WHC) pilot is now available.
View report [PDF 732KB]
The Chair of the Health and Safety Executive (HSE), Judith Hackitt today reminded board members and senior business directors to put effective health and safety performance high on their agendas.
Read the press release in full
Nail bars are a rapidly expanding small business sector. This report addressed Local Authority enforcement officers’ concerns about the potential health risks involved with nail treatments and identified areas where further research is needed.
View research report RR627
New risk assessment examples have been added for the following; village hall, road haulage, car parking service, nightclub, food preparation and service.
The following risk assessment examples have also been updated; convenience store/newsagents, estate agency, butcher and travel agents.
View examples
Launched in February 2006, the two-year Workplace Health Connect pilot has now come to its planned end. Funded and managed by HSE, Workplace Health Connect was designed to give tailored advice on workplace health, safety and return-to-work issues to SMEs in England and Wales.
Details of new services
Health and Safety Commission (HSC) Chair Judith Hackitt reminds employers that when it came to the protection of their employees, size of the organisation/business must not matter.
Read the press release in full
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