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Health & Safety for Start-Up Businesses
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Health & Safety for Start-Up Businesses
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Health & safety is a wide range of practices and policies that are designed to prevent accidents and injuries to both your employees and customers. Contact us today to learn more about our Health & Safety consultancy.
Health & safety is vitally important as you have a legal requirement to provide a safe for your employees to work. Not doing so can lead to damaged work equipment, loss of profit and heavy fines to play. Contact us to learn more about our Health & Safety consultancy.
Yes, the Health and Safety at Work Act 1974 is in place to ensure all employers protect their employees and customers from harm whilst on their premises.
Peninsula can offer you practical and quality advice on any health & safety issues you have, ensuring you avoid injuries and claims being raised against you.
Yes if an employee or member of the public is injured because of the employers' fault, claims can be raised. This can lead to heavy fines having to be paid.
As an employer. you're responsible for keeping your employees safe from harm at all times. Failure to protect them from hazards can lead to serious accidents and injury.
Download our Health & Safety starter pack for new businesses today and take the first step to workplace safety.
How can businesses keep their employees safe?
As a business owner, there are things you can do to keep your employees and other visitors safe from risk harm. It's you legal duty to do the following:
Carry out a risk assessment: A risk assessment is the most effective way to control the risks within your business. Peninsula offers a full risk assessment service, where a qualified consultant comes to your site and provides ongoing support.
Create and maintain a Health & Safety policy: A Health & Safety policy should include how to aim to manage safety, who is responsible, and what measures are in place to manage safety in your business - as per your legal duty. Peninsula offers a full Health & Safety documentation service, where an expert will craft a watertight policy.
What happens if you don't comply with Health & Safety?
Not complying with Health & Safety has serous consequences, such as serious injury and even prosecution. Breaching the Health & Safety at Work Act means you may be handed an inspector notice – with potential for criminal prosecution.
If an employee is injured due to an accident at work, they may make a claim of compensation.
By downloading our free Health & Safety starter pack for new businesses, you'll be taking the first steps in ensuring the safety of the people working for you.
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It's vital you maintain the Health & Safety of all your employees and any visitors to your business at all times.
Failure to do so could lead to serious or fatal accidents in your workplace. Consequently, this might lead to financial and reputational damages.
Peninsula offers expert advice on Health & Safety, as well ongoing support with any safety issues you have.
Our teams provide 24/7 Health & Safety advice which is available 365 days a year. We take care of your business needs when you work with our Health & Safety experts. Want to find out more? Contact us on 0800 028 2420 and book a free consultation with a qualified Health & Safety consultant today.
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