Reduce the risk of repetitive strain injury at work
How to reduce the risk of repetitive strain injury in your business by encouraging breaks, adjusting workstations and reducing the weight of items handled.
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Causes of repetitive strain injury at work
The types of activities that can lead to repetitive strain injury, and types of worker that are particularly at risk including risks from cold and vibration.
Occupational health and welfare
How to prevent and manage illness, injury and other ill effects, including social ones, stemming from the workplace by properly managing occupational health.
Occupational health risks
Tackling key threats to staff welfare - from stress and drug abuse to repetitive strain injury and exposure to hazards.
Types of PPE: clothing
Choosing protective equipment for the body and legs to protect you and your employees from risks like extreme temperature, electric shock and chemicals.
Types of PPE: eyewear
Providing the correct level of eye protection for your workforce and yourself including equipment such as goggles, what to consider and who will need it.
Does your business need personal protective equipment?
Working out whether your business is affected by the Personal Protective Equipment at Work Regulations, including risk assessment and who should pay for it.
Health and safety risks for people working outdoors
Ways of reducing the chance of accidents to employees who work outside, both on your premises and elsewhere by spotting and reducing health and safety risks.
Seven key ways to manage stress at work
Practical tips on how to effectively manage and reduce stress in your business to protect employee wellbeing and prevent productivity loss and sickness absence.
Support people affected by traumatic events
What you can do to support and accommodate colleagues and employees after a traumatic event such as a natural disaster or serious accident.
Reduce stress in your workplace
How to reduce work-related stress levels in your business - from reducing employees' workloads to giving them more autonomy and ensuring holidays are taken.
Workplace stress audit
Monitoring your business for potential sources of stress by carrying out a systematic stress audit using a checklist or questionnaire to consider key areas of stress.
How to deal with stress
Putting the systems and policies in place to deal with the growing problem of stress in the workplace and prevent sickness absence and productivity issues.
Review your health and safety risk assessment
How to review your risk assessment on an ongoing basis to identify hazards or risks from any new equipment, substances or procedures in the workplace.
Record your safety risk assessment findings and implement them
How to record your findings after a risk assessment and put a plan of action in place to prioritise and mitigate or remove the risks you have identified.
Evaluate health and safety risks and decide on precautions
Assessing the risks at your place of work and developing systems to avoid these hazards and accidents such as issuing protective equipment or reducing exposure.
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.
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.
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)