Workplace health and safety enforcement in the district is
the joint responsibility of Suffolk Coastal's Food and Safety
Team and the government's Health & Safety Executive
(HSE).
Suffolk Coastal covers health and safety in shops, warehouses,
offices, hotels, catering, sports and leisure facilities, consumer
services (laundrettes, hairdressers, tyre and exhaust fitters
etc.), residential care homes and churches.
The Health and
Safety Executive (new window) covers mainly industrial
activities such as factories, building sites, mines &
quarries, agriculture, railways, chemical plants, offshore &
nuclear installations and fairgrounds.
The Food and Safety Team aims to prevent work place accidents
and ill health by:
- Inspecting workplaces and enforcing health and safety law.
- Investigating accidents, dangerous occurrences and occupational
ill-health.
- Following up complaints about working conditions or
practices.
- Providing advice and information on health and safety in the
work place.
- Promoting relevant local and national health and safety
topics.
We also run
training courses for health and safety in
the workplace.
Further information and getting in touch
If you would like more information about any aspect of our
work or want to report a problem you can contact us
on 01394 444357 or email
foodsafetyteam@suffolkcoastal.gov.uk
.
Information about the aims and objectives of the health and
safety service and how it is run can be found in Suffolk Coastal's
Health and Safety Service
Plan.