Councils deliver a diverse range of public services. Responsibility for health and safety extends to their roles as employers, service providers and often as major procurers and commissioners of goods and services. This website provides information on how councils can manage the risks to their employees and others who are affected by their work activities, by adopting sensible, proportionate approaches.
The risks in local government occur across a wide range of activities and services, from waste management and education to social care, housing refurbishment and highways maintenance. Information related to these service delivery areas is available from HSE's relevant industry-based pages.
Local authorities can make an important contribution to the successful delivery of the 2009 Strategy for health and safety in GB.
Individual councils are among the many businesses that have signed the pledge to ‘Be part of the solution' to deliver the strategy.
Health, work and well-being - caring for our future (2005)
Safe waste and recycling collection services
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