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Health and safety laws apply to all businesses, no matter how small. As an employer, or a self-employed person, you are responsible for health and safety in your business. You need to take the right precautions to reduce the risks of workplace dangers. you must provide a safe working environment.

Decide who will help you with your duties

As an employer, you must appoint a competent person to help you meet your health and safety duties. A competent person is someone with the necessary skills, knowledge and experience to manage health and safety.

You could appoint (one or a combination of):

• yourself
• one or more of your workers
• someone from outside your business

Write a health and safety policy for your business

Describing how you will manage your health and safety in your business will let your staff and others know about your commitment to health and safety. This will be your health and safety policy. See write a health and safety policy for your business.

Manage the risks in your business

You should use a health and safety risk assessment as the main tool to identify workplace hazards. It will also allow you to put measures in place to control and minimise the hazards and risks you find.

Consult your employees

You should find out what your employees and their representatives think about any changes that might affect their health and safety. See consult your employees on health and safety.

Provide training and information

Everyone who works for you needs to know how to work safely and without risks to health. it's your duty to provide health and safety training.

Provide the right workplace facilities

Every workplace must meet some basic standards of comfort and sanitation. See workplace welfare facilities and healthy working environment

First aid, accidents and ill health

Under health and safety law you must report and keep a record of certain injuries, incidents and cases of work-related disease. See first aid, accidents and illness in the workplace.

Display the health and safety law poster

If you employ anyone, you must display , or provide each worker with a copy of the equivalent . You must display the poster where your workers can easily read it. 

The poster outlines British health and safety laws and includes a straightforward list that tells workers what they and their employers need to do. You could also add details of any employee safety representatives or health and safety contacts.

Register your business

You may need to apply for a licence or notify the Health and Safety Executive for Northern Ireland (HSENI) or your local authority if you business:

• works with hazardous substances such as asbestos or explosives
• works in a hazardous industry like diving

For more information, see managing hazardous substances.

To notify the HSENI you can call the HSENI Helpline on Tel 0800 032 0121. See local council contact details in Northern Ireland. 

Get insurance for your business

If your business has employees you will probably need employers' liability insurance. See liability insurance for your business.

Keep up to date

Following news and events in your industry will help you keep your health and safety policies and risk assessments up to date. HSENI provide several services to businesses to help keep up to date:

• keep up to date by following HSENI on social media
• visit the
• check

If you have good health and safety practices, you will see six main business benefits.

Protect your staff

Effective health and safety practices help you protect your staff from injury. This may mean you are more likely to retain skilled and loyal employees by preventing:

• back pain and other musculoskeletal disorders - eg upper limb disorders - see safe manual handling at work and prevent repetitive strain injury at work
• injuries from slips and trips - see avoid slips and trips in the workplace
• falls from height - see work safely at height or in a confined space
• accidents involving vehicles at work - see transport  safety in the workplace
• aches, pains and strain from using display screen equipment - see computer health and safety at work

Looking after your employees' health will mean that your staff are less likely to suffer from:

• the effects of noise and vibration
• asthma - see manage risks from substances which can trigger allergies or asthma
• work-related skin disease
• asbestos-related illness - see occupational health risks

Reduce absences and sick leave

Another benefit of good health and safety measures at work is that employees are less likely to take sick leave. This saves the business the direct and indirect costs of staff absence.

Retain staff

If you reduce staff absence due to illness or accidents at work, you will save the time and costs of recruiting and training a new member of staff.

Reputation

Good health and safety measures will help you to build a positive reputation with your clients and staff and their friends and associates. The resulting good public relations could help to increase sales and generate more leads.

Productivity and profits

Good health and safety measures mean that your staff can do their work more easily and safely. This will boost morale, increase productivity and reduce costs.

Save insurance and legal costs

A good standard of health and safety in the workplace can reduce your insurance premiums, as well as the costs of accidents that aren't covered by your insurance, such as sick pay, production delays or repairs to plant or equipment. Uninsured costs can be greater than insured costs, and they have to be paid out of your business' income.

Find out your duty of care to health and safety in your workspace.

Learn how other start-up businesses met health and safety legislation.