Health and Safety Executive

Health and safety for disabled people

This site promotes good practice in disability equality at work and health and safety risk assessment.

It provides:

  • an introduction to disability discrimination and health and safety law;
  • advice for people doing health and safety risk assessments;
  • advice for disabled people;
  • links to further sources of information, including grants.
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Risk assessment

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Risk assessment is a careful examination of what could harm people and how likely this is to happen, so that employers can weigh up whether or not the steps they have taken are sufficient to comply with health and safety law.

More about risk assessment

Case studies

Case studies give examples of good practice, showing show practical steps to promote disability equality when managing health and safety.

More case studies

Feedback

Please tell us what you think of these pages and how we can make them more useful for you.

Do you have a positive story to tell? Do you want to share your experiences in a case study?

Please email us at diversity@hse.gsi.gov.uk.

HSE and DRC

The site has been developed jointly by HSE and the Disability Rights Commission (DRC). We set out our principles of health and safety management and disability in our joint statement. We acknowledge the support of the disabled people who assisted with this project and HSE Northern Ireland.


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Updated 25.11.09