Our Leaflets & Health and Safety Guidance

Farm Visits

H & S Guidance – Farm Visits INTRODUCTION This guidance is intended for farms operating as leisure activities where visitors come to visit farm animals as an attraction. The HSE website offers a host of guidance for the agricultural sector on general farm safety. There is also guidance on open farms on the site www.hse.gov.uk/agriculture/index.htm .... Read More

Fire Safety

H & S Guidance – Fire Safety (inc Causes, Means of Escape, Alarms and Means of Firefighting) INTRODUCTION Whatever the nature of your business, there will always be a potential for damage or loss due to fire. People may be injured or even killed in fire-related incidents. Thousands of businesses are adversely affected by fires .... Read More

Fireworks

H & S Guidance – Fireworks INTRODUCTION Firework displays should be enjoyable occasions. If organisers take the necessary precautions, they should also be safe occasions. The following advice relates to firework events put on by organisations assigned to local authorities for health and safety enforcement, including public houses and other licensed premises. The advice covers .... Read More

First Aid

H & S Guidance – First Aid INTRODUCTION First aid can save lives and prevent minor injuries becoming major ones. First aid at work covers the initial management of any injury or illness suffered at work. Under the Health and Safety (First Aid) Regulations 1981 all workplaces must make provision for first aid, to be .... Read More

Flammable Liquids

H & S Guidance – Flammable Liquids INTRODUCTION Flammable liquids are liquids with a flashpoint of 55ºC or below and hence includes all liquids that are classified as “flammable”, “highly flammable” or “extremely flammable” for supply according to the CHIP Regulations 2002.  It also includes petroleum spirit and petroleum mixtures. The main hazards involved are .... Read More

Food Catering Sector

H & S Guidance – Food Catering Sector INTRODUCTION The food industry, which includes food producers, manufacturers, processors, wholesalers, distributors, retailers and caterers comprises one of the largest business sectors in the UK.  The catering sector alone, which covers restaurants, hotels, take-aways, public houses and night clubs, employs in excess of 1.2 million people at .... Read More

Food Equipment & Machinery

H & S Guidance – Food Equipment & Machinery INTRODUCTION Food sector employees make up to 9% of the UK workforce, and are employed in numerous undertakings including food production, processing, manufacturing, retailing and catering. During these processes, many different types of machinery and equipment are used, many of them so familiar that it is .... Read More

Fork Lift Trucks

H & S Guidance – Fork Lift Trucks INTRODUCTION Forklift trucks (FLTs) feature prominently in workplace accidents. Every year there are about 8000 lift truck accidents resulting in injury, and on average 10 of them are fatal. Even if people are not injured in FLT accidents there could be damage to buildings, storage systems or .... Read More

Fragile Roofs

H & S Guidance – Fragile Roofs INTRODUCTION On average 28 workers are killed each year and several hundred are seriously injured as a result of working on roofs. Members of the public are also killed and injured when hit by materials falling or thrown carelessly from roofs. Nearly all roof work fatalities could have .... Read More

Funeral Parlours

H & S Guidance – Funeral Parlours INTRODUCTION The main hazards encountered in funeral service activities are the risk of infection, manual handling and exposure to hazardous substances/chemicals. The risk of infection arises from the small proportion (less than 1%) of the 600,000 people who die each year in the UK who have a known .... Read More