Advisory websites, leaflets and books
Here’s a list of further resources to help you make your purchasing decisions. Please note these are all links to external web sites and The Office Safety Company is not responsible for their content.
Websites
Leaflets from The Health & Safety Executive
- Health and Safety Regulation: A short guide (PDF)
- Health and Safety Law: What you should know (PDF)
- Directors’ responsibilities for health and safety (PDF)
- Employers’ Liability (Compulsory Insurance) Act 1969: A guide for employers (PDF)
- Employers’ Liability (Compulsory Insurance) Act 1969: A guide for employees and their representatives (PDF)
- Five Steps to Risk Assessment (PDF)
- A guide to risk assessment requirements (PDF)
- First-aid At Work: Your Questions Answered (PDF)
- Basic Advice On First Aid At Work (PDF)
- Electrical Safety and You (PDF)
- Safety in electrical testing at work - general guidance (PDF)
- Maintaining portable electrical equipment in offices and other low-risk environments (PDF)
- Working With VDUs (PDF)
- Aching arms (or RSI) in small businesses (PDF)
- RIDDOR explained (PDF)
- RIDDOR reporting: Information about the new incident centre (PDF)
- Fire and explosion - how safe is your workplace - a short guide to the Dangerous Substances and Explosive Atmospheres Regulations (PDF)
- Getting to grips with manual handling (PDF)
- Mark a parcel, save a back (PDF)
- Manual handling assessment chart tool (MAC Tool) (PDF)
- Aching arms (or RSI) in small businesses (PDF)
Books
- Workplace Health, Safety and Welfare: Workplace (Health, Safety and Welfare) Regulations 1992 - Approved Code of Practice and Guidance — Health and Safety Executive
- Health and Safety at Work Etc. Act 1974 (Public General Acts - Elizabeth II) — Peter Vergo
- First Aid at work Regulations 1981 - Approved Code of Practice (ACOP L74) — Health and Safety Executive
- Fire Safety: An Employer’s Guide — Health and Safety Executive
- Safety Signs and Signals: Guidance on Regulations - The Health and Safety (Safety Signs and Signals) Regulations 1995 — Health and Safety Executive
- Step by Step Guide to COSHH Assessment — Health and Safety Executive
- The Electricity at Work Regulations 1989 — Emily Devenport
- Reducing Noise at Work: Guidance on the Noise at Work Regulations 1989 — Health and Safety Executive
- Work Equipment: Provision and Use of Work Equipment Regulations 1992 — Abe Shigeru
- Manual Handling: Manual Handling Operations Regulations 1992 - Guidance on Regulations — Health and Safety Executive
- Work with Display Screen Equipment: Health and Safety (Display Screen Equipment) Regulations 1992 as Amended by the Health and Safety (Miscellaneous Amendments) Regulations 2002 - Guidance on Regulations — Health and Safety Executive
- The Electricity at Work and Related Regulations — Trevor E. Marks
- Code of Practice for In-service Inspection and Testing of Electrical Equipment — The Institution of Electrical Engineers
- It’s Not Carpal Tunnel Syndrome! RSI Theory & Therapy for Computer Professionals — Suparna Damany, Jack Bellis
- Guide to the Reporting of Injuries, Diseases and Dangerous Occurrences: Regulations 1995 Guidance on Regulations — Health and Safety Executive
Business Directories
- B2B Directory UK – Large directory of business to business companies