Health & Safety at Work Essentials

Health & Safety Rules and Health & Safety Regulations:
Find out how your business can simply comply with the extensive range of health and safety rules and regulations.

Written by specialists in health and safety, Health & Safety at Work is a handy, 'one-stop' guide for anyone responsible for health and safety issues in the workplace.

It sets out the background to health and safety law and provides practical health and safety advice on how to:

• Prepare your own health and safety policy document
• Know your legal obligations under the Health and Safety at Work Act
• Assess the health and safety risks in the workplace
• Produce your own health and safety risk assessment
• Provide health and safety information to your employees or colleagues
• Deal with the dangers of manual handling and VDU work
• Survey the health of your staff
• Get health and safety insurance
• React when a health and safety accident occurs
• Deal with a health and safety emergency
• Train your workforce in good health and safety practice
• Cope with an investigation by the Health & Safety Executive
• Defend against Health & Safety Executive prosecutions

Now in its sixth edition, Health & Safety at Work has just been updated to include details of recent health and safety legislation relevant to employers, amendments to existing health and safety legislation and recent health and safety statistics.  

In particular, this new edition of Health & Safety at Work covers the REACH Regulations, the Corporate Manslaughter and Corporate Homicide Act 2007, changes to sentencing and recoverability of defence costs in criminal health and safety prosecutions and information on pandemics.

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