Download Health & Safety forms from the HSE website

Health and Safety at work enforcement is the joint responsibility of local authorities and the Health & Safety Executive (HSE).

Waveney District Council covers health and safety in shops, warehouses, offices, hotels, catering, sports and leisure, consumer services (launderettes, hairdressers, tyre and exhaust fitters etc) residential care homes and churches.

The HSE covers mainly industrial activities such as factories, building sites, mines and quarries, agriculture, railways, chemical plants, offshore and nuclear installations and fairgrounds.

Waveney DC aims to prevent work place accidents by:

• Inspecting workplaces and enforcing the law relating to health and safety
• Investigating accidents, dangerous occurrences and occupational ill-health
• Providing advice and information on health and safety in the workplace
• Promoting relevant local and national health and safety topics
• Offering health and safety training courses

Registering your Business for Health and Safety Purposes

If an employer intends to employ anyone to work in an office or a shop, they are required by law to notify the appropriate enforcing authority beforehand. They must complete and submit two copies of form OSR1 from the HSE website to:

Waveney District Council
Town Hall
High Street
Lowestoft
Suffolk NR32 1HS

For more information or advice contact Waveney's Food and Safety team on:

Telephone: 01502 523194 or
Email: safety@waveney.gov.uk

Reporting Health and Safety Problems

The Food and Safety team are responsible for investigating hazards or dangerous practices in certain work premises. If you have witnessed something dangerous where you work or at a business premises you have visited and have been unable to resolve the situation with the company involved you can report this to the Food and Safety team to investigate.

Telephone: 01502 523194 or
Email: safety@waveney.gov.uk

Reporting Accidents at Work

Employers are required by law to report certain work-related accidents, work-related diseases or dangerousoccurrences involving employees or members of the public.

Accidents should be reported directly to the national Incident Contact Centre (ICC) by telephone on 0845 300 9923, via the ICC website or by post or fax using form F2508 which you can download from the Health and Safety Executive's website.

The completed form should be sent to:

Incident Contact Centre
Caerphilly Business Park
Caerphilly CF83 3GG

You can also contact Waveney District Council's Food and Safety team on 01502 523194 or by emailing safety@waveney.gov.uk for advice on the reporting requirements and procedures.