Compliance costs less than non-compliance
Don’t let health & safety strangle your business, or try to understand it. Let us tackle the complex health & safety legislation for you.
There are numerous benefits in complying with legislation thus avoiding Litigation: civil claims, criminal prosecution for non-compliance.
Also
- Reduce accidents in the workplace
- Raise employees knowledge to health & safety
- Reduce sickness and improve productivity
This may also reduce or stabilise insurance premiums and improve bottom line profits. It really pays to invest in better health & safety and arusafe will give you cost effective advice and documentation.
The enforcing body is The Health & Safety Executive, whose Officers have wide ranging powers. Officers may serve improvement or prohibition notices which have far reaching consequences upon the offending organisation.
Breaching Health & Safety Law can be both a criminal and civil offence and upon summary conviction substantial fines may be payable and, under certain circumstances, imprisonment.
The following Acts and Regulations are a selection that apply to your office workplace:
- The Health and Safety At Work Act 1974
- The Electricity at Work Act 1989
- Fire (Scotland) Act 2005
- Management of Health & Safety At Work Regulations 1999
- Display Screen Equipment Regulations 1992
- Health & Safety First Aid Regulations 1981
- Manual Handling Operations 1992
- Work Place (Health Safety & Welfare) Regulations 1992
- Control of Substances Hazardous to Health Regulations 2002
- The Work at Height Regulations 2005
