Health and safety
Pages in Health and safety
- 1. You are here: Health and safety at work
- 2. Reporting a heath and safety concern
- 3. Health and safety advice for businesses
- 4. Housing standards
- 5. Inspections and enforcement
1. Health and safety at work
Our remit includes:
- Acupuncture, body piercing (including microblading or micropigmentation) and beauty parlours
- Builders merchants
- Care homes excluding Nursing homes
- Catering premises (Including Cafés, restaurants, and mobile food vendors)
- Community Halls
- Hotels and leisure facilities
- Nursery or Playgroup
- Offices
- Place of Worship
- Pubs
- Riding stables
- Shops including food retail
- Tyre and exhaust fitting premises
- Warehouses
Other types of work activity or premises are regulated by the Health and Safety Executive (HSE).
The council's aim for the regulation of health and safety at work is to protect the health, safety and welfare of people at work. We also seek to safeguard others, such as members of the public, who may be exposed to risks from the way work is carried out.
If you have a health and safety concern that relates to an activity in the above list of premises, in the first instance you should raise your concern with the employer or person directly. If no improvement is made you can raise your concern with us.