Complaints about Workplaces and Work Activities
Health and safety laws apply to all businesses, however small; as well as to employees and the self-employed. The law is also there to protect the public from workplace dangers.
Every employer has a legal duty to ensure, so far as is reasonably practicable the health, safety and welfare at work of all his/her employees. They also have a duty to ensure that people not in their employment are not affected by work activities.
The general duties placed on employers are:
- To provide and maintain plant and systems of work that are safe and without risks to health.
- To put in place arrangements for ensuring safety and absence of risks to health in connection with the use, handling, storage and transport of articles and substances.
- To provide information, instruction, training and supervision to ensure the health and safety at work of his/her employees.
- To maintain any place of work under his/her control in a condition that is safe and without risks to health.
- To provide and maintain for his/her employees a working environment that is safe, without risks to health, and adequate as regards facilities and arrangements for their welfare at work.
If, as an employee, or a member of the public you have cause to complain about any of the above requirements you can contact the North Hertfordshire District Council's Environmental Health Commercial team. Details of how to contact the team can be found on the Housing & Public Protection contact page.
