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Employment
Health and safety at work
Accidents in the workplace
If you have a serious accident at work - including something that stops you working for three days or more - your employer must report the accident to the Health and Safety Executive
Employees' health and safety responsibilities
Employees' legal health and safety duties and guidance on reporting workplace hazards and accidents
Employers' health and safety responsibilities
Guide to employers' responsibilities for the health and safety of their employees
Health and safety representatives
The legal rights and responsibilities of health and safety representatives, consultation they must receive, becoming a safety rep and protection for whistleblowers
Drug testing and employee monitoring
The effect of drug misuse in the workplace, balancing the need to ensure safety with workers' rights to privacy, CCTV, email, levels of workplace monitoring
Safe manual work
Find out about safe manual work and how you can best deal with occupational hazards and illnesses
Accidents in the workplace
Understand your rights if you have an accident at work and how to bring an injury claim against your employer if you think they're at fault
Suspension from work on medical/health and safety grounds
Read about when you may be suspended from work on health and safety grounds, what pay you'll receive and what happens if you're pregnant
Safe computer use
Obligations on employers to minimise the health risks of working with computers, rights to breaks, help with equipment and eyesight tests for employees
Workplace stress
What is stress, where it comes from, how your employer can help reduce it and options available to you
Special health and safety hazards
More about the regulations dealing with particular hazards and for industries where hazards are particularly high
