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Managing assets: Health and safety
Legal responsibility
A business has a legal duty to ensure the health and safety of its staff, volunteers, contractors and users.
Further guidance:
HSE Employers Responsibilities
Key requirements
- Appoint competent person to manage health and safety
- Prepare health and safety policy (requirement if you employ 5 or more staff)
- Carry out risk assessments
- Control risks
- Consult with and train staff
- Display health and safety poster (compulsory if you employ staff)
- Keep appropriate health and safety records
- Take out employers’ liability insurance.
Further guidance:
Health and Safety for your Business
In this section:
Detailed guidance on systems and procedures for business compliance
Ensuring compliance: Governance systems and records
Ensuring compliance: Financial systems and controls - set-up requirements
Ensuring compliance: Financial systems and controls - ongoing requirements
Ensuring compliance: HR systems and procedures
Ensuring compliance: HR systems - Spotlight on ‘Managing people’
- Managing people: Employing and managing staff
- Managing people: Managing volunteers
- Managing people: Using contractors and freelancers
Ensuring compliance: Managing assets and resources - Spotlight on ‘Assets’