Health & safety policy guidance

All Employers with five or more employees are required by Law to provide a written document detailing the business's or organisation's general policy for health and safety and the organisation and arrangements for carrying out the policy.

The HSE have produced a template safety policy and risk assessment document for small businesses which can be accessed using the following link Small business safety policy and risk assessment (This link will open in a new window)

Also further guidance on writing a health and safety policy can be found in the document "Writing your Health & Safety Policy Statement - How to prepare a safety policy statement for a small business" available from HSE Books. This can be purchased from HSE Books by telephone order on 01787-881165 or from good bookshops. Alternatively, the HSE web site is a good source of information and it can be found atwww.hse.gov.uk/pubns/index.htm

The following documents can be downloaded free of charge, as a pdf documents:

• An Introduction to health and safety INDG 259
• Managing health and safety INDG 275
• Director's responsibilities for health and safety INDG 343
• Need help on health and safety? INDG 322
• Starting your own business INDG 324

Writing a health and safety policy statement HSC6 www.hse.gov.uk (This link will open in a new window)

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