Health and safety - quick facts
Health and safety means protecting people from injury or illness at work and in public places. It involves making sure workplaces are safe, equipment is properly maintained, staff are trained, and risks are controlled.
It also involves ensuring that explosive, highly flammable, or otherwise dangerous substances are used and stored safely.
This section gives you a quick overview of your responsibilities under health and safety law, so you can stay compliant and help keep your employees and others safe — both physically and mentally.
What is the law guide
The Desktop Lawyer law guide aims to present the law to you in a comprehensive yet jargon-free and easy-to-read format. Our law guide is constantly kept up to date with changes in business and family law by our team of in house solicitors, and includes information across all the legal jurisdictions in the UK.
Our law guide is free to use. Where we provide documents related to this area of law, or where they may help you with any legal issue in this area, they will be listed to the right of this message.