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Environmental Health
Lewes District Council
Southover House
Southover Road
Lewes
East Sussex
BN7 1AB


Tel: 01273 484354
ehealth@lewes.gov.uk
Minicom 01273 484488

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• Health & Safety Executive

How Health & Safety Works

An overview of the role of Health and Safety rules and regulations.

Because health and safety is so important there are rules that require all of us not to put ourselves or others in danger. The law is also there to protect the public from workplace dangers. This applies to all businesses however small; also to the self employed and to employees.

Inspectors from the Health and Safety Executive and your local authority both enforce health and safety legislation and provide pro-active advice. Enforcement of health and safety at work is divided between HSE inspectors and local authority officers as follows:

• HSE at factories, farms and building sites
• Local authorities in offices, shops, hotels and catering and leisure activities.

Health & Safety Management

Successful health and safety should not be a burden on business but a sensible set of methods to ensure that things run smoothly. Health and safety management requires leadership from the top of the organisation and this should be highlighted in the companies Health and Safety policy statement. The company must also state what arrangements are in place to ensure that health and safety policies are carried out in practice.

Risk Assessments

Policies are usually put into practice through the use of ‘risk assessments’. Risk assessments are opportunity to consider whether or not an activity at your business presents a serious risk of injury to a member of staff.

Risk assessments should help you decide upon the level of risk in an activity and whether or not the risk is acceptable. If the level of risk is not acceptable then the risk assessment also provides you with an opportunity to consider how to conduct a task in a safer manner.

• HSE Risk Assesment: Five Steps