You must manage the health and safety risks in your workplace. To do this you need to think about what, in your business, might cause harm to people and decide whether you are doing enough to prevent that harm. This is known as a risk assessment.
Category: Catering and hospitality
COSHH and your industry – How does it affect you?
Monday, March 26, 2012
How does Control of Substances Hazardous to Health (COSHH) affect you in your industry? Select your industry to view key messages and how COSHH affects you.
Risk management – Online example assessments
Monday, February 20, 2012
The examples show how other small and medium-sized businesses have approached risk assessment. If you can’t find your industry listed, pick the one closest to it and adapt it for your own workplace.
COSHH – How does it affect you in your industry?
Friday, February 17, 2012
How does Control Of Substances Hazardous to Health affect you in your industry? – From this page select your industry to view key messages and how COSHH affects you.
Stress in your workplace? – Harrogate, 22 February 2012
Thursday, February 2, 2012
Harrogate and District Health and Safety forum – free event. The aim of this event is to help you understand the causes of stress in order to prevent identify and manage it in your workforce and relate this to what the law expects of the employer.
Example risk assessments – Approaches for small businesses
Monday, January 9, 2012
These examples show kind of approach HSE expects a small business or workplace to take and how other small and medium-sized businesses have approached risk assessment.
Lung diseases: Asthma – Trade specific information
Thursday, December 15, 2011
Listed are jobs with the highest rates of occupational asthma. Follow the relevant link to find top tips and advice on how to protect yourself in the workplace
Catering and hospitality FAQs – Maintaining equipment
Monday, December 5, 2011
Answers to some of the frequently asked questions on maintaining equipment in the catering and hospitality industry.
Catering and hospitality FAQs – What are the hazards?
Thursday, November 17, 2011
Answers to some of the top frequently asked questions about ‘hazards’ in the catering and hospitality industry.
Catering and Hospitality FAQs – Which health and safety laws apply?
Tuesday, October 25, 2011
As an employing caterer, you must: prepare a statement of safety policy and your organisation and arrangements for achieving the policy (written if you employ more than four people), consult employees through safety representatives if your workplace is unionised, or employee representatives or directly if it is not unionised…
Catering and hospitality – Frequently asked questions
Thursday, October 6, 2011
Some of the most common health and safety questions asked by workers in the catering and hospitality industries
Catering and hospitality eBulletin service – subscribe today
Tuesday, September 20, 2011
Keep up to date with the latest news and information on catering and hospitality via a free regular email bulletin, or an RSS feed.
Catering and hospitality – frequently asked questions
Tuesday, September 13, 2011
What are the the main health and safety issues relating to catering operations?
Hospitality Industry Newsletter – Issue 2
Friday, July 23, 2010
Articles include: Working in Great Britain from overseas; Shattered Lives Campaign – the latest from HSE; Skin at work;
Safety notice – Avoiding trapping/crushing injuries to people in the platform of mobile elevating work platforms (MEWPs)
Friday, July 16, 2010
More people die from falls at work than from any other cause. The use of mobile elevating work platforms/powered access equipment has been a major factor in the reduction in falls accidents.
Safety Alert – People in commercial waste containers
Monday, June 7, 2010
Commercial waste bins are emptied around the clock seven days a week, so there are millions of such operations each year.
Shattered Lives – request a free danger sign
Thursday, March 25, 2010
You can request a free copy of the A5 colour ‘Danger’ display card for your own sector.
Shattered Lives – give us your feedback
Monday, March 15, 2010
We’ve got 3 simple questions that should take you less than 60 seconds to answer.
Shattered Lives – Simple mistakes can shatter lives
Tuesday, February 9, 2010
Your actions could stop them happening, you might think you’re doing everything you can to prevent slips, trips and falls in your workplace, but everyone could do a lot more.
Slips, trips & falls cost two South West workers their lives
Wednesday, February 3, 2010
Slip, trip and fall incidents in the workplace cost two workers from the South West their lives last year, HSE warned today as it launched a hard-hitting campaign.
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