About Health & Safety Business Information

Why it has been produced

Wrexham County Borough Council try to maintain a balance when enforcing health and safety legislation. As well as insisting that the laws are observed, we endeavour to provide as much help and guidance as we are able.

As part of our efforts, we have produced the The Health and Safety Business Information advice sheets.

In our experience, many small and medium-sized businesses are having difficulty in coming to grips with the significant amount of essential, but often daunting legal requirements placed upon them.

In this pages, we give a clear and simple advice on 10 main areas of health and safety which will affect the majority of businesses.

How to use the information

Guidance is given in a series of self-contained Advice Sheets. The idea is to retain the information ready to hand and refer to the individual sheets from time to time as the need arises. The first couple of paragraphs will indicate whether the guidance is relevant to you.

Advice is presented as a simple step-by-step guide with key tasks as bullet points. Together, the advice sheets will help you get started and plan your approach to health and safety. Details on where to find more information are given at the bottom of each sheet and at the end of the pack..

In order to keep the guidance easy to use and understand, we have not included all areas of health and safety interest. Therefore, you must ensure that your approach to health and safety does not end with this information - it is only the starting point and you may need to tackle additional areas to the ones listed. This will depend on the type of work you carry out and where it is carried out, for example, you may need to address the specific risks associated with fork lift trucks, violence to staff, or legionella.

Link to view the index of Health & safety Advice Sheets

Getting more help

After working through the Advice Sheets, you may decide that more assistance is needed in a particular area. The first thing to do is to contact your Enforcing Authority. For businesses in Wrexham, this will either be:

Wrexham County Borough Council
Public Protection Department
Crown Buildings
Chester Street
Wrexham
LL13 8ZE
Telephone 01978 292040

Or:

The Health & Safety Executive (HSE)
Units 7 & 8 Edison Court
Ellice Way
Wrexham Technology Park
Wrexham
LL13 7YT
Tel: 01978 316000

The Health and Safety Executive mainly cover the manufacturing, processing and construction industries.

HSE priced and free publications are available by mail order from:

HSE Books
PO Box 1999,
Sudbury,
Suffolk,
C010 6FS

Tel: 01787 881165

HSE priced publications are also available from Dillons Bookstores, and other good booksellers.

For other enquiries ring HSE's InfoLine Tel 0541 545500,

or write to;

HSE's Information Centre
Broad Lane,
Sheffield,
S3 7HQ.

This information is not an authoritative interpretation of the statutory duties which apply to your specific undertaking. It should be used in conjunction with the relevant Acts, Regulations and Codes of Practices.