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Employees' health and safety responsibilities

Employees' legal health and safety duties and guidance on reporting workplace hazards and accidents

Employers' health and safety responsibilities

Guide to employers' responsibilities for the health and safety of their employees

Health and safety representatives

The legal rights and responsibilities of health and safety representatives, consultation they must receive, becoming a safety rep and protection for whistleblowers

Drug testing and employee monitoring

The effect of drug misuse in the workplace, balancing the need to ensure safety with workers' rights to privacy, CCTV, email, levels of workplace monitoring

Safe manual work

Find out about safe manual work and how you can best deal with occupational hazards and illnesses

Accidents in the workplace

Understand your rights if you have an accident at work and how to bring an injury claim against your employer if you think they are at fault

Suspension from work on medical/health and safety grounds

Read about when you may be suspended from work on health and safety grounds, what pay you will receive and what happens if you are pregnant

Safe computer use

Obligations on employers to minimise the health risks of working with computers, rights to breaks, help with equipment and eyesight tests for employees