Other Languages - Business Advice and Publications

Find Environmental Health advice and publications in minority languages for businesses on food safety and health and safety at work.

You can also translate webpages or blocks of text from our website using online translation tools.

Food Safety for Businesses

The council's Environmental Health food safety staff recently worked with SOMPRITI - the local black and minority ethnic support agency - to provide free Safer Food, Better Business (SFBB) seminars in other languages to help businesses comply with new food hygiene legislation.

SOMPRITI can offer specialist help for Indian, Chinese, Turkish and other restaurants and businesses in the locality. You can contact SOMPRITI telephone (01273) 477550 or email info@sompriti.com

This site has a French language webpage Food Hygiene Guidance for French Market Traders, with a PDF document in French to download.

More publications and services in other languages are available using our links to the Food Standards Agency (FSA) and Health and Safety Executive (HSE) - see Other Websites.

The FSA booklet Food Hygiene – a Guide for Businesses can be downloaded in Bengali, Chinese, Gujurati, Hindi, Punjabi and Turkish.

Health and Safety at Work

A range of HSE publications about health and safety at work are available to download or order in other languages - including an introduction to health and safety, risk assessment, accident reporting, manual handling, slips and trips, gas safety and catering information sheets.

You can select translated versions of HSE webpages with frequently asked questions (FAQs) and contact details in other languages - Bengali, Chinese, Gujurati, Hindi, Punjabi and Urdu.

If you would like to speak to someone in a language other than English, HSE Infoline on 0845 345 0055 has a telephone interpreting service covering over 100 different languages.

For general business advice, download the Setting Up in Business Guide from The Law Society, in Arabic, Bengali, Chinese, Greek, Gujerati, Hindi, Punjabi, Somali, Turkish, Urdu or Vietnamese.