Health and safety enforcement is split between the Health and Safety Executive, (HSE), and Local Authorities, dependant upon the type of work activity involved. In the main, local authorities are responsible for health and safety enforcement in the following types of work activity:

• Offices
• Retail and wholesale shops, including cash and carry, market stalls, shoe repairers, coin-operated launderettes, mobile shops, and garden centres
• Tyre and exhaust centres
• Restaurants, take-away food shops, mobile snack-bars and catering services
• Hotels etc. including pubs, cafés, wine bars, guest houses, hostels, holiday homes, caravan and camping sites, and residential homes
• Wholesale or retail warehouses
• Leisure and entertainment facilities, including night-clubs, discos, bingo halls, amusement arcades, circuses, social clubs, sports facilities, health clubs, gyms, swimming pools, riding schools, pleasure-boat hire, golf clubs, motor racing circuits, race-courses, theatres and art galleries; Therapeutic and beauty services.

You can view our Health and Safety Enforcement policy in the right hand menu

Reporting of Accidents and Ill Health

Reporting of Accidents and Ill Health is a legal requirement under the Reporting of Injuries, Diseases and Dangerous Occurrences Regulations 1995 (RIDDOR). If you are an employer, self employed or in control of work premises you are required to report some work related accidents, diseases and dangerous occurrences.

You must report the following: -

• A death or major injury
• An over three-day injury (that is when an employee or self-employed person has an accident at work and is unable to work for over three days, but does not have a major injury)
• A work related disease
• A dangerous occurrence (this is when something happens that does not result in a reportable injury, but which clearly could have done).

You can report incidents in a variety of ways, by telephone (Mon - Fri 08:30 - 17:00), fax, via the Internet, or by post: -

Please send postal reports to the following address:

Incident Contact Centre
Caerphilly Business Park
Caerphilly
CF83 3GG

For Internet reports please go to:
http://www.riddor.gov.uk/
or alternatively the HSE website: www.hse.gov.uk

By telephone (charged at local call rate):
0845 3009923

By fax (charged at local call rate):
0845 300 9924

By email: riddor@natbrit.com

If you need to contact the Environmental Health Section on a health and safety matter or for further information

Please telephone 01665 510505

Alternatively you can fax us on 01665 605099

or send an email to customerservices@alnwick.gov.uk

or write to us at:
Environmental Health Section
Alnwick District Council
Allerburn House
Alnwick
NE66 1YY