Responsible for enforcing the majority of environmental legislation in England and Wales. Also provides free advice on environmental best practice and produces free guidance leaflets and booklets.

Responsible for enforcing health and safety law in the UK. Provides guidance on complying with safety law, and offers advice on occupational health issues through the Employment Medical Advisory Service (EMAS) – which can be contacted through local HSE offices.

Responsible for enforcing health and safety law in Northern Ireland.

Free guidance on health and safety at work issues.

Fact sheets on work-related injuries and ill health.

National centre for employers in England, Scotland and Wales to report RIDDOR accidents, cases of ill health and dangerous occurrences.

You must manage the health and safety risks in your workplace. To do this you need to think about what in your business might cause harm to people and decide whether you are doing enough to prevent that harm. This is known as a risk assessment. Once you have identified the hazards, you need to decide how to control them and put in the appropriate risk control measures.

A risk assessment is not about creating huge amounts of paperwork, but rather about identifying sensible measures to control the hazards in your workplace. The law does not expect you to remove all hazards and risks, but to protect people by putting in place measures to control them so far as is reasonably practicable. You are probably already taking steps to protect your employees, but your risk assessment will tell you whether you should be doing more.

NetRegs provides free environmental guidance for small and medium-sized businesses in the UK. Help with understanding what you need to do to comply with environmental legislation and protect the environment. Save money by showing ways to use your resources more efficiently.

The Health and Safety (Safety Signs and Signals) Regulations 1996 apply to all premises and activities where workers are employed. The Regulations require employers to ensure that safety signs are provided (or are in place) and maintained in circumstances where risks to health and safety have not been avoided by other means, e.g. engineering controls or safe systems of work. Employers will need to take into account the results of risk assessments made under the Management Regulations.

Regulations made under the Health Act 2006 came into effect in 2007. The new laws created the need for a 'smoke-free' environment in public areas and where anyone is at work in an enclosed or substantially enclosed workspace and this includes virtually all enclosed places of work including vehicles. They also required signage at all entrances to enclosed and substantially enclosed areas including businesses that were already smoke-free before this date.

On 1 October 2012 new smoke-free (Signs) Regulations 2012 came into effect which simplified the sign requirements for both smoke-free areas and vehicles.  From this date the requirement is that at least one legible no-smoking sign must be displayed in smoke-free vehicles, premises or areas.

Produces publications including health and safety and environmental regulations.