Health and Safety Information

Health and Safety Law Poster

On 6 April 2009, the Health & Safety Executive published the current version of the approved health and safety law poster.   All premises should have this version in place by 2014 if they have employees.  The ISBN number for this poster is 0717 663396.  For further information please go to their link.  http://www.hse.gov.uk/pubns/books/lawposter.htm.  

Alternatively, rather than purchase the approved poster, employers can provide each of their employees with a copy of the approved leaflet which is available as a free download from the link below.

www.hse.gov.uk/pubns/books/lawposter.htm

For purposes of filling in the blank boxes on the poster, the enforcing authority is Tendring District Council, Council Offices, Station Road, Clacton On Sea, Essex, CO15 1SE and the Employment Advisory Medical Service is at Wren House, Hedgerows Business Park, Colchester Road, Chelmsford, Essex CM2 5PF Tel: 01245 706200. 

If you have any queries you can also contact Tendring District Council's Health and Safety team, email fhsadmin@tendringdc.gov.uk or telephone 01255 686767.

Links to Information:

Managing Health and Safety (pdf document)

Getting to Grips with Manual Handling (pdf document)

Manual handling assessment charts (pdf document)

Working with VDUs (pdf document)

Electrical safety at work (link to HSE web site)

Maintaining portable electrical equipment (pdf document)

Workplace health, safety and welfare (pdf document)

Personal Protective Equipment (pdf document)

Provision and use of work equipment (pdf document)

Violence at work (pdf document)