Environmental Health - Health & Safety - Regulation and Inspection of Business Premises.
The regulation & inspection of local business premises ensures that safe and healthy working conditions are provided for all employees, the self-employed and members of the public visiting these premises. | |
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Responsibility for Local Enforcement of Health & Safety Law.
Basildon Council's Env. Health team carry out regular checks on offices, shops, warehouses, places used for leisure activities and other non-industrial premises. (The Health and Safety Executive  deal with factories and other industrial operations).
Types of business regulated and inspected by Basildon Council's Env. Health team include:
- Offices & Shops
- Hotels & Catering
- Consumer Services
- Warehouses
- Leisure & Entertainment
- Residential Accommodation
- Places of Worship and Undertakers
- Pre-School Childcare
- Mobile Vendors
- Animal Care
- Therapeutic & Beauty Services
Health & Safety - Registration of Businesses
Under the terms of the Office Shops & Railway Premises Act 1963, businesses within the District which fall into any of the above categories should be registered with Basildon Council's Env. Health Service.
You can download a copy of the Registration Form  from the HSE website, the completed form should be returned to Basildon Council's Env .Health Service .
Health & Safety Inspections
As with food safety, Health & Safety inspections are carried out on a routine basis without prior notification and high risk premises are visited more frequently.
During an inspection, Officers will need to be satisfied that any hazards to people's health, safety and welfare, which arise out of or in connection with work have been identified and the associated risks adequately controlled. View further information about Health & Safety Inspections
They will look at the level of health and safety training of managers and employees to ensure that it is suitable.
Checks will also be made on the adequacy of structural and environmental conditions and that plant and equipment are safe.
Inspectors mainly try to help employers by giving advice.
Where work practices or conditions fall short of what is regarded as satisfactory every attempt will be made to resolve the situation by informal means, but if this is not possible, or if the danger posed gives rise to a risk of serious personal injury, then officers will resort to formal action.
Inspectors do have legal powers but will generally only enforce them when something is seriously wrong or where their advice is ignored.
This could involve either the service of a legal notice, prosecution, or in situations where serious personal injury could arise, a prohibition notice requiring immediate action.
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