Manual handling of plasterboards in order to construct interior building walls and ceilings represents a moderate to high risk of back and other musculoskeletal injury. This best practice guide provides advice and guidance on how to reduce these risks.

What you need to know about health and safety law if you are building or renovating your own home. 

The Carriage of Dangerous Goods and Use of Transportable Pressure Equipment (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2011 - Regulatory Impact Assessment

This document lists what information should be provided when notifying work with ionising radiation.

This checklist outlines basic rules to be considered and questions to be answered.

This booklet explains how employers can reduce the risk of fire in the workplace and keep within the law. It provides a step-by-step guide to carrying out a fire safety risk assessment and includes a number of useful fire safety templates.

The plan derives directly from Northern Ireland’s long-term and shared health and safety at work strategy – “Health and safety at work: protecting lives, not stopping them.”The plan very much aligns with the key priority of the Northern Ireland Executive’s Programme for Government to grow the economy in that its impact will be to reduce the multi-million pound burden on the local economy brought about by health and safety at work failures. 

This guidance describes how bulls should be handled and how they should be housed.

The Factories Act (Northern Ireland) 1965 and Office and Shop Premises Act (Northern Ireland) 1966 (Repeals and Modifications) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2011 - Regulatory Impact Assessment

This information sheet outlines the need to use lock out tag out practices to ensure safety during maintenance work. 

This document gives information on permits and indicates some of the times when they must be used during maintenance work.

This document outines the need to ensure machinery stays isolated during maintenance work. 

As part of the Department’s commitment to health promotion, the well-being of its employees, and the management of absence due to illness, the Departmental Board agreed to introduce the Health and Safety Executive Management Standards in March 2008.

This checklist can be used as guidance when carrying out pre-concrete pour falsework.

This checklist can be used for pre formwork/falsework removal.

HSENI information sheet (number 11) provides advice on how to prevent or control ill health from animal contact at visitor attractions. It includes a supplement for teachers and others who organise visits for children.

This leaflet provides information for construction workers who may be experiencing stress.

This poster provides information for construction workers who may be experiencing stress.

This leaflet provides general advice on portable ladders and stepladders by indicating steps to work through prior to starting a job.

This booklet has been produced to help small businesses understand what they need to do to effectively manage health and safety and give them simple advice that they can easily understand and put into practice within their business.