Health and safety at work
The health and safety pages published here aim to provide businesses, employees and members of the public with information, guidance and advice on all aspects of health and safety at work in the Basildon Borough.
What you need to know about working safely during coronavirus (COVID-19)
The GOV.UK website has published the following guides to help employers, employees and the self-employed understand how to work safely during the coronavirus pandemic:
• GOV.UK - Local COVID alert levels: what you need to know
• GOV.UK - Working safely during coronavirus (COVID-19) - Factories, plants and warehouses
• GOV.UK - Working safely during coronavirus (COVID-19) - Offices and contact centres
• GOV.UK - Working safely during coronavirus (COVID-19) - Restaurants offering takeaway or delivery
• GOV.UK - Working safely during coronavirus (COVID-19) - Shops, branches, stores or similar environments.
• GOV.UK - Working safely during coronavirus (COVID-19) - All 8 guides to help employers, employees and the self-employed
Whether you are the owner or an employee of a business, or a member of the public affected by a work activity in Basildon, you should know that the Basildon Council's Health and Safety team will:
- carry out inspections and use a range of other contacts to investigate businesses in the Borough in accordance with the Health and Safety Executive's priority risk rating system to ensure that they meet certain standards.
- carry out investigations into complaints relating to workplaces in the Basildon Borough.
- carry out investigations of reportable occupational diseases, accidents and dangerous occurrences at work to discover their causes and take appropriate action in accordance with national selection criteria.
- provide advice to employers and employees on health and safety issues (see also downloadable advice leaflets )
- where there is a serious risk of personal injury as a result of activities in a workplace, ensure that such activities are prohibited.
- maintain public registers of premises where there are cooling towers and where radioactive substances are kept.
- enforce the restrictions on opening hours relating to Sunday trading.
Health and Safety at Work - Regulation and Inspection
Health and Safety - Training
Health and Safety - Accident Reporting
Health and Safety - Complaints and Accidents
Health and Safety - Outdoor Hospitality Safety Advice
Environmental Health Services - Admin
- Telephone01268 533333