Melanie O'Brien

This Practice Note covers regulatory requirements relating to health and safety incidents in an office-based workplace, including requirements relating to the reporting of injuries, diseases and other dangerous occurrences. For practical information about investigating, handling and reporting a health and safety issue, see Practice Note: How to manage health and safety incidents.

This Practice Note covers regulatory requirements relating to the use and care of visual display screen equipment.

This Practice Note covers regulatory requirements relating to fire safety in an office-based workplace, including in relation to duties of the responsible person, general fire precautions, signs and signals, and high risk activities and dangerous substances. Building regulations are outside the scope of this Practice Note.

This Practice Note covers regulatory requirements relating to first aid in an office-based workplace, including requirements relating to the provision of first aid kits, first aiders and first aid rooms.

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This Practice Note covers regulatory requirements relating to health and safety in an office-based workplace and in particular, the requirements relating to health and safety risk assessment and your health and safety plan.

This Practice Note covers regulatory requirements relating to health and safety in an office-based workplace including requirements relating to the provision of safe workplace equipment and manual handling.

This Practice Note covers compliance and regulatory requirements relating to health and safety and, in particular, the requirements for a written health and safety policy. It covers health and safety requirements in an office-based workplace. Other industry/workplace-specific requirements may apply in different working environments.

This Practice Note consists of a table that contains a summary of the key legislation relevant to health and safety in an office-based workplace. The table indicates which measures apply, depending on the type and size of organisation.

This Practice Note is intended for compliance professionals and facilities managers in private-sector commercial organisations. It provides information on conducting a fire risk assessment in an office-based, non-residential workplace. You have a duty to take precautions to minimise the risk of fire in your workplace and ensure the safety of your employees in the event of fire. In order to identify the general fire precautions you need to take, you must make a suitable and sufficient assessment of the risks.

This Practice Note is intended for compliance professionals and facilities managers in private sector commercial organisations. It provides information on conducting a first aid needs assessment.

This Practice Note is intended for compliance professionals and facilities managers in private sector organisations, including law firms. It explains how to conduct a health and safety risk assessment in an office-based workplace.

This Practice Note is intended for compliance professionals and facilities managers in private sector organisations, including law firms. It explains how to formulate, implement and review a plan to manage health and safety and control associated risks in an office-based workplace.

This Practice Note is intended for compliance professionals and facilities managers in private-sector, commercial organisations. It provides information for organisations on drafting and implementing a health and safety policy. It reviews key issues to consider, refers to tools that could be of assistance and addresses the value in having a policy document. It covers health and safety requirements in an office-based workplace. Other industry/workplace-specific requirements may apply in different working environments.

This Practice Note is intended for compliance professionals and facilities managers in private-sector commercial organisations. It provides practical information on managing and ensuring fire safety in an office-based, non-residential workplace. It should be read in conjunction with Practice Note: Fire safety in the workplace—regulatory requirements. Building regulations and fire safety requirements in residential and domestic premises are outside the scope of this Practice Note.

This Practice Note is intended for compliance professionals and facilities managers in private sector organisations. It provides information on managing and ensuring the effective provision of first aid in the workplace.

An organisation has a duty to ensure it manages the health and safety risks in its workplace effectively and efficiently. This Practice Note is intended for compliance professionals and facilities managers in private-sector commercial organisations. It provides information on managing and ensuring health and safety in the workplace.

This Practice Note is intended for compliance professionals and facilities managers in private-sector commercial organisations. It provides information on investigating, handling and reporting health and safety incidents in an office-based workplace.

This Practice Note provides information on the number and size of first aid box(es) you should consider maintaining and considers what such a box could contain in an office-based workplace.

This Precedent business impact analysis can help you identify your key business functions or services and predict the potential consequences of those functions being disrupted. This could include functions such as client service, case management, data processing, HR, accounting functions, etc, which would, if they are interrupted or damaged, have a detrimental effect on your ability to operate. As part of the analysis, it is important to assess the amount of time for recovery before the business will suffer consequences. This will help you to determine which processes may be more critical to the business and help identify the maximum length of time that the organisation can manage a disruption to each of the key functions without threatening its viability. You can then set the point in time at which the key functions would need to be resumed in the event of a risk event occurring. Once you understand the potential impact and priority, you can more effectively document the critical activities required to deliver the key functions and put in place strategies and operational measures to respond to the event and limit the disruption.