Useful Links

The following websites provide useful information on specific health and safety related issues: 

• The Smokefree England website provides up-to-date information about the smokefree legislation which came into force on 1st July 2007.
  

• Backcare is a UK Charity which helps people manage and prevent back pain by providing advice, promoting self help, encouraging debate and funding scientific research into better back care.
  

• The British Safety Counciloutlines why it is good business to develop an excellent health and safety reputation.

• CIEH is one of the professional bodies that Health and Safety Inspectors can be accredited by.
  

• Government advice for disabled people.

• The Department of Health website provides news and information about the department, access to publications and advice and information on Social and Public Health.
  

• The Health and Safety Executive websiteprovides advice and information related to health and safety at work.
  

• HSE Leaflet - Five Steps to Risk Assessment.
  

• HSE Guide to Risk Assessment Requirements.
  

• www.hse.gov.uk/pubns/stresspk.htm: HSE Guide and Fact Sheets on Work Related Stress.
  

• IOSH is the professional body for safety and health practitioners. A non profit making organisation, IOSH represents over 24,000 individual members. 

• Meningitis Research Foundation contact details: 13 High Street, Thornbury, Bristol, BS12 2AE, 01454 281811
  

• Safe Office Practice website provides information on Display Screen Equipment including examples of safe/unsafe practices.
  

• The Incident Contact Centre for reporting accidents at work.
  

• The Royal Society for the Prevention of Accidents website.
  

• The Repetitive Strain Injury Association website provides includes information on causes, treatment and legal issues.

• The Suzy Lamplugh Trust is the national charity for personal safety. It aims to create a safer society and enable people to live safer lives, providing practical personal safety advice for everyone, everyday, everywhere.
  

• The TUC Health and Safety website provides links to numerous research and conference documents in addition to the normal materials, and has an additional fund of recent cases and claims information.