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Coronavirus (COVID-19): Staying safe at work
Your health and safety responsibilities to staff when dealing with COVID-19
Coronavirus: Workplace safety guidelines
Workplace guidelines and measures to help prevent the transmission of coronavirus
Coronavirus: Workplace safety guidelines
Workplace guidelines and measures to help prevent the transmission of coronavirus.
Risk of diseases, infections and allergies in the workplace
How to understand the risks to your staff and business from diseases, infections and allergies, including specific risks for certain types of business
Managing risks from diseases and infections in the workplace
Introducing policies and procedures to reduce incidences of disease and infections at work to protect your employees, clients and any other visitors
Prevent the spread of coronavirus in the workplace
How your business can use measures such as handwashing and social distancing to reduce the risk of spreading coronavirus
Handling an outbreak of infection or disease in the workplace
What you must do if there is an outbreak of disease in your workplace and how you can avoid disruption, including reporting incidents to HSENI (RIDDOR)
Ventilation: Assessment of fresh air in the workplace
How to assess that there is an adequate supply of fresh air in any workspace.
Conflict in the workplace and the cost to your business
Labour Relations Agency commissioned report examines the cost of workplace conflict to Northern Ireland employers.
Identify health and safety hazards
How to identify any potential causes of harm or injury in your workplace as part of a risk assessment by walking around, looking at records and talking to staff.
Review your health and safety risk assessment
How to review your risk assessment on an ongoing basis to identify hazards or risks from any new equipment, substances or procedures in the workplace.
Evaluate health and safety risks and decide on precautions
Assessing the risks at your place of work and developing systems to avoid these hazards and accidents such as issuing protective equipment or reducing exposure.
Manage risks from substances which can trigger allergies or asthma
Identify and minimise the risks of employees or customers having allergic or asthmatic reactions to certain materials in the workplace, such as dust and mould
Assess the health and safety risks in your business
How you can assess the risks in your business and work to reduce them by carrying out a proper risk assessment that identifies and minimises safety hazards.
Record your safety risk assessment findings and implement them
How to record your findings after a risk assessment and put a plan of action in place to prioritise and mitigate or remove the risks you have identified.
Healthy and safe working environment
How to ensure that you provide a health working environment for your employees, including ventilation, lighting and space.
Safe working temperatures
Reasonable temperatures for a working environment, when you should send staff home and how to manage extreme temperatures.
Welfare facilities at work
Your legal duty to provide welfare facilities for employees, such as toilets, drinking water and clothes storage.
Ventilation in vehicles used for work purposes
Advising staff on how to ensure there is adequate ventilation in vehicles used for work purposes.
Employees working from home
The key issues to consider if you decide that working from home is a possibility for your business.