HEALTH AND SAFETY

You will receive a comprehensive Health and Safety file which contains information about the safe use and maintenance of the building.

Risks are assessed and a schedule prepared which identifies any hazards that you will need to manage, such as accessing the roof to clean gutters or maintaining roof-mounted plant or machinery.

If you have any work carried out which may affect the safe use and maintenance of the building, you have a duty to update the Health and Safety file.

If the building is sub-let, assigned or returned to us, the Health and Safety file should be made available to the new occupier or to the Slough Trading Estate team.

In addition to the Health and Safety laws you are required to comply with, within your specialist business sector there are many aspects of Health and Safety legislation that effect the property that you occupy and how you work in it.  Should you need any further advise on ensuring compliance, we can provide contact details, or reputable consultants and auditors.

Whilst we cannot list every piece of legislation, we have outlined a few of the more recent pieces of legislation.

• Fire Safety
  • We would remind you of your responsibilities regarding fire safety and ask you to notify us of your appointed Fire Marshall and emergency procedures.
  • We would remind you of the need to carry out fire risk assessments on your property under the Regulatory Reform (fire safety) Order 2005.
  • For more information visit www.communities.gov.uk/fire/firesafety/firesafetylaw
    
    
• Hazardous Waste
  
  • The Hazardous Waste Regulations 2005 means that all producers of hazardous wastes have to register their premises with the Environment Agency, unless they fall under the category of exempt producer and generate less than 200kg of hazardous waste per year.  Hazardous Waste producer registrations are only valid for twelve months from the date of registration.
  • Web links
         The Environment Agency
         Hazardous Waste Registration
    
    
• Asbestos
  
  • Please make sure you have an asbestos survey for your unit, this may already be contained within the Health and Safety file you were provided with on initial occupation.
    
    
• Water Risk Assessments
  
  • Please ensure that a risk assessment on the water systems within your building has been completed.  This will identify any areas presenting risk of legionella, etc.
    
    
• Waste Electrical and Electronic Equipment (WEEE) Regulations
  • The Waste Electrical and Electronic Equipment (WEEE) Directive came into force in January 2007 and aims to both reduce the amount of WEEE being produced and encourage everyone to reuse, recycle and recover it. The WEEE Directive also aims to improve the environmental performance of businesses that manufacture, supply, use, recycle and recover electrical and electronic equipment.
  • If you are an importer, rebrander or manufacturer of new electrical or electronic equipment then it’s likely that you will need to comply with the UK’s WEEE Regulations, which in part implement the WEEE Directive. If you do need to comply, then you must register on a producer compliance scheme.
  • You may also have obligations under the WEEE Regulations if you are a business with electrical/electronic equipment to dispose of, or if you sell electrical or electronic equipment.
  • Web link
         Environment agency