Resources

Health and Safety Executive

• Successful health and safety management HSG65 HSE Books 1997 ISBN 978 0 7176 1276 5
• Leadership for the major hazard industries Leaflet INDG277(rev1) [128kb]

Information on:

• corporate manslaughter
• small businesses
• principles of sensible risk management
• measuring health and safety performance
• competent health and safety assistance
• worker involvement
• case studies
• performance indicators such as Business Link indicator for SMEs and HSE's CHaSPI for large organisations.
• enforcement

• PowerPoint slides for promoting the leadership guidance [1.4MB]

Health and Safety Executive for Northern Ireland

• HSE (Northern Ireland) website

Institute of Directors (IoD)

• IoD health and safety guide
• Wellbeing at work: A Director's Guide IoD 2006 ISBN 978 1 9045 2048 1

Institution of Occupational Safety and Health (IOSH)

• IOSH website
  Toolkits, Competent health and safety assistance
• Questioning performance: The director's essential guide to health, safety and the environment IOSH ISBN 978 0 901357 37 3

Royal Society for the Prevention of Accidents (RoSPA)

• RoSPA website
  DASH: Director Action on Safety and Health, GoPoP: Going Public on Performance – measuring and reporting on health and safety performance, Case studies

Trades Union Congress (TUC)

• TUC website with information about safety representatives

Business Link

• Business Link website with information on managing health and safety

European Agency for Safety and Health at Work

• OSHA website