Question: I will be hiring agency workers, what do I need to consider?
Answer: If you hire agency workers, you must tell the employment business (agency) hiring them to you about risks to the worker’s health and safety and steps you have taken to control them; any necessary legal or professional qualifications or skills; and any necessary health surveillance. The employment business/agency should pass this information on to the worker in a way that he/she can clearly understand, and you must ensure the worker has received and understood it.
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Question: Who enforces health and safety law?
Answer: Inspectors from the Health and Safety Executive (HSE) or Environmental Health . For example: HSE at factories, farms and building sites; Environmental Health in offices, shops, hotels and catering, and leisure activities.
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Question: Do I need to have employers' liability compulsory insurance?
Answer: Yes, it's the law if you employ anyone - and you should display the certificate in the workplace.
See the free leaflet Employers’ Liability Compulsory Insurance Act 1969 - A guide for employers HSE40
and Employers Liability (Compulsory Insurance) Act 1969 - a guide for employees and their representatives HSE 39. These are available from the related link -
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Answer: By Phone: Infoline on 0845 345 0055
By Post: Health & Safety Executive, Priestly House, Priestly Road, Basingstoke, Hants. -
Related LinkHas this FAQ answered your query? Question: What is a health and safety policy?
Answer: A health and safety policy means the health and safety arrangements i.e. the effective planning, organisation, control, monitoring and review of the preventative and protective measures. If there are 5 or more employees these arrangements must be recorded. If there are less than 5 employees the appropriate arrangements still need to be in place.
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Question: Do health and safety regulations apply to people who work from home?
Answer: Most of the Regulations made under the Health and Safety at Work Act apply to homeworkers as well as to employees working at an employer's workplace. Employers are required to do a risk assessment of the work activities carried outy by homeworkers. Further information can be obtained from the HSE (Health and Safety Executive) web site via the related link: -
Related LinkHas this FAQ answered your query? Question: Do I need to display safety signs in the workplace?
Answer: Wherever there is a risk that has not been avoided or controlled by other means (e.g. by engineering controls and safe systems of work), employers are required to provide specific safety signs. Where a safety sign would not help to reduce that risk, or where the risk is not significant, there is no need to provide a sign. Further information can be obtained from the HSE web site via the related link: -
Related LinkHas this FAQ answered your query? Question: Do I need to display any Health and Safety posters?
Answer: Yes, the health and safety law poster (ISBN 0 7176 2493 5) if you employ anyone. Alternatively you can provide your employees with individual copies of the same information in a leaflet called ‘Your Health and Safety - a guide for workers’. The poster and leaflet are available from HSE Books, PO Box 1999, Sudbury, Suffolk CO10 2WA. Tel: 01787 881165. -
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