Providing information on
health and safety to employees
Under the Health & Safety Information for Employees
Regulations 1989, every employer must prominently display
a Health
& Safety Law Poster (obtainable from HSE Books) or
distribute a leaflet setting out basic health and safety
information for their employees. There are a number of blank spaces
on the poster which employers are required to complete with
relevant information for their employees and these details
concern:-
- the address of the relevant health & safety Enforcing
Authority for the business which in the City could be either the
City of London or the HSE ;
- the address of the Employment Medical Advisory Service (EMAS)
usually at the local HSE office;
- the name of the "competent person" appointed by the business
under the Management of Health & Safety at Work
Regulations 1999 – e.g. the company’s Health & Safety
Manager; and
- details of health & safety consultation
arrangements with employees and the names of any Trade
Union Safety Reps or Employee Reps if non-unionised
If employers choose to give their employees a leaflet
instead of displaying the poster, they must also give them a letter
explaining who the health & safety Enforcing Authority is and
the other information detailed above.