Health & Safety

Protecting the health and safety of your employees and anyone else who may be affected by the activities of your organisation (e.g. contractors and members of the public) is an essential part of risk and hazard management and should be proactively led by the top of your organisation.

The HSE has a duty to investigate health and safety incidents.

Businesses have responsibilities under health and safety law to contractors working for them or on their behalf.

The Health and Safety Executive is entitled to recover costs incurred by them from employers where an Inspector assesses that the employer is in “material breach of health and safety legislation.

Health and Safety Inspectors have the right to enter any workplace as part of their regulatory functions or for an investigation following an incident.

The HSE has a duty to investigate health and safety incidents.

Breaches of Health and Safety legislation are investigated within the criminal law.