Health and Safety Downloads

Guide for Schools

This guide provides the most up-to-date health and safety information available, helping to ensure your school's compliance in 2010. It covers key aspects of health and safety legislation, as well as a best practice checklist.

Guide for Directors

A must have guide for all company directors. This guide provides information on the Manslaughter and Corporate Homicide Act of 2007, directors' responsibilities, risk assessments, fire safety, training, and controlling contractors.

Fire Safety

The Regulatory Reform (Fire Safety) Order 2005 was introduced to consolidate existing fire legislation. Employers are responsible for ensuring that the arrangements for fire safety are adequate for the risks that exist. In this guide, we address the essential elements of fire safety that are needed to ensure compliance with fire safety legislation. It provides information on fire risk assessment, appointing a responsible person, fire safety procedures, fire extinguishers, fire warden/marshal responsibilities and staff training in fire safety.

5 Tips for Effective Health and Safety Management

To manage health and safety properly, understanding and complying with legislation is vital. But it’s only the tip of the iceberg. Enforcement authorities don’t just want to see the relevant documentation, they want to see a positive health and safety culture that is embedded in an organisation. Download our top tips on how to improve the health and safety culture within your organisation and experience easier and more effective management. Download now>

Risk Assessment

Legislation requires us to assess the risks involved in all our work activities and to take whatever appropriate steps we can to remove or reduce the risks to the staff involved. Find out the correct way to complete risk assessments and how to implement effective control measures. Download now>

Good Handling Techniques

This guide provides information on simple good handling techniques you can use to reduce the possible risks involved in a manual handling task. Download now>

Setting up a Workstation

Even low risk work routines, such as using computers, can result in employees requiring time off work and prosecuting the employer. Find out how to correctly set up a DSE workstation to minimise the risk of injury.

Work Related Stress

Work related stress, depression and anxiety accounted for an estimated 13.5 million lost working days in Britain during 2007/08. Evidence shows prolonged periods of work-related stress has an adverse effect on both physical and psychological health. It effects employees' commitment to work, their performance, productivity and attendance levels. In this guide we will address work related stress law, HSE management standards, causes of stress, how to recognise stress, effective strategies for dealing with stress, risk assessment and managing workplace stressors. Download now>

First Aid

The Health and Safety (First-Aid) Regulations 1981 place a duty on employers to provide adequate first aid equipment, facilities and personnel for all of its employees. Employers must assess the level of risk employee’s face when performing their work duties by carrying out an evaluation of first aid needs. This will affect what first aid equipment, personnel and facilities they need to make available.