Identify health and safety hazards
How to identify any potential causes of harm or injury in your workplace as part of a risk assessment by walking around, looking at records and talking to staff.
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Assess the health and safety risks in your business
How you can assess the risks in your business and work to reduce them by carrying out a proper risk assessment that identifies and minimises safety hazards.
Health and safety risk assessment
The key steps that all businesses should follow when carrying out a health and safety risk assessment to identify and mitigate hazards and comply with the law.
Checklist: safety in care service businesses
Key steps to maintain health and safety in your care service business including staff, premises, communication, equipment, hygiene, waste, training and risks.
Vetting, AccessNI and training in care service businesses
Use thorough employee checks and training to make sure your staff can provide the service your clients require in a business that provide care services.
Hygiene and hazardous substances in care service businesses
Health, hygiene and safety in kitchens, wash areas and when dealing with laundry, waste and hazardous substances in businesses that provide care services.
Health and safety risks for care service employees
Dealing with health and safety issues for employees working in care service businesses from stress to lifting injuries, violence and hazardous substances.
Avoid health and safety hazards in care service premises
Minimising workplace hazards and making your equipment and premises as user-friendly as possible in a business that provides care services, eg a care home.
Register a care service business
How to register a care service business (such as a nursery, residential care home or clinic) with the Regulation and Quality Improvement Authority (RQIA)
Health and safety in care service businesses
Assess the specific risks to care services businesses and keep clients and staff free from harm in creches, playgroups, residential care homes and clinics.
Health and safety during storms and bad weather
Health and safety considerations during bad weather and storms, including assessing the risks and taking action to protect workers.
Business benefits of good health and safety
The benefits to your business of having good health and safety practices including protecting your staff injuries and illness and reducing absences.
Health and safety basics for business
How to meet your business' basic health and safety responsibilities to protect your employees, customers and visitors and what the benefits are to you.
RIDDOR: Reporting an incident
Your legal responsibilities to report accidents and illnesses under the Reporting of Injuries, Diseases and Dangerous Occurrences Regulations (RIDDOR).
First aiders and appointed persons
When your business will need a qualified first-aider or a person in charge of first aid arrangements and how to appoint someone and provide training.
What should a workplace first aid kit include?
A list of what should be included in your business' first-aid box, such as plasters and dressings, and what you should not include in your first aid box.
First aid, accidents and illness in the workplace
Guidance for providing first aid and recording and reporting accidents and illnesses including RIDDOR responsibilities and what to include in a first aid box.
Event health and safety: top tips
Top tips for running events safely include carrying out a risk assessment, planning for emergencies, managing the flow of traffic and crowds, and working with local organisations.
Event health and safety: planning for emergencies
Planning for incidents and emergencies if you are an event organiser, including creating an emergency plan, evacuation procedures and handing over to the emergency services.
Event site and venue health and safety
Health and safety considerations for the site and venue of events, including design, risks, facilities, crowd management and transport.
Event health and safety: planning an event
How to plan, manage and organise a safe event including risk assessment, training, monitoring and review.
Manage health and safety when running events
What you should consider regarding health and safety when you are running events, including organisation, site suitability, facilities and emergency planning.
Managing risks from diseases and infections in the workplace
Introducing policies and procedures to reduce incidences of disease and infections at work to protect your employees, clients and any other visitors.
Monitor lone workers' health and safety
Regular supervision reduces the risks of lone working and flags up areas where there may be problems.
Reduce the risks of remote working
Advice on minimising the risks involved in working away from the office including examples of common remote working risks and how to reduce them.