General Health & Safety
As a leading provider of Health and Safety eLearning, our experts are often asked about our Health and Safety. We've collected all of those questions and answered them for you below...
Frequently asked questions
All companies with 5 or more people must have a health and safety policy. When creating a policy, employees should be part of the process to cover areas that you as an employer might not see. It should include a statement of intent, a list of who is responsible for what and information about how the main issues will be managed.
All full-time employees are entitled to 28 days paid annual leave a year, so your holiday you can take could be 20 days and then bank holidays you don't have to take as a holiday. Or you may have 28 days of holiday a year but you have to take the bank holiday days as holiday days or take them unpaid.
If you are not sure you are being given the right amount of holiday you can go here to calculate the holiday you should be entitled to.
Health and safety policies and risk assessments apply to all business with 5 or more people.
The task of enforcing health and safety laws is shared between local authorities and the Health & Safety Executive (HSE).
This is one of the questions we are asked most often and we're afraid there’s no ‘one-size-fits-all’ answer. Almost all health & safety legislation deliberately leaves decisions such as this to the employer. The HSE generally only gets involved when there’s an incident, so they would decide as part of any investigation both if the training was adequate and offered frequently enough.
We have thousands of companies and most refresh training annually; certainly, we recommend Fire Safety Training, Manual Handling and DSE Training is repeated every 12 months.
White papers & guides
Health & Safety Checklist
Download our free Health & Safety checklist to ensure a safe work environment and see which tasks you need to complete to keep employees safe.
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