The essentials for offices and shops
- A fire risk assessment under the Regulatory Reform (Fire Safety) Order 2005, with clear evacuation arrangements
- Display screen equipment (DSE): workstation assessments for computer users, including home and hybrid workers, and eye tests on request
- Work-related stress and wellbeing, assessed using the HSE Management Standards
- First aid: a first aid needs assessment to decide what equipment and trained people you need
- The workplace itself: temperature, lighting, welfare facilities, and slips and trips, under the Workplace (Health, Safety and Welfare) Regulations 1992
- Manual handling of stock and deliveries
- Lone working, violence and aggression, particularly in retail
- Contractors working on your premises
In offices and shops, workplace health and safety is generally enforced by the local council's environmental health team.
How we help
- Fire risk assessments and fire warden training
- Risk assessments for DSE, stress, manual handling and lone working
- Training for staff and managers
- Audits for single sites and store groups
- Retained competent person support, so you always have someone to ask