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Motor vehicle repair is a complex and challenging industry to work in. Motor vehicle repair encompasses three distinct sectors: mechanical repair, bodyshops and roadside repair. Each sector faces particular challenges when repairing vehicles safely.

As an employer, the following pieces of legislation outline your legal responsibilities regarding alcohol and drug misuse at work.

The Health and Safety Executive for Northern Ireland (HSENI) is one of a number of public bodies which regulate work that causes or could cause radiation exposure of workers, the public or both. HSENI’s inspectors advise, inspect, investigate and enforce in a flexible and proportionate way so that radiation exposure of employees and others, arising from work activities, is adequately controlled.

A risk assessment is simply a careful examination of what, could cause harm to people, to enable precautions to be taken to prevent injury and ill-health.

In relation to the waste industry, HSENI’s primary role is to protect those at work in waste and recycling activities and anyone who might be affected by that work, for example members of the public.

Information is provided here for designers and manufacturers of new products, suppliers and installers of work equipment, those purchasing and using equipment at work, and for looking after work equipment.

Working with livestock, particularly cattle, will always involve risk. Sensible health and safety is about managing that risk.

Effective health and safety performance comes from the top - members of the board have both collective and individual responsibility for health and safety.

Every year many people die of work-related asbestos diseases, more than are killed on the roads, and this number is still rising. The Asbestos Liaison Group (ALG) works to bring about a reduction in the number of asbestos related diseases.

In the wrong hands, chainsaws can be extremely dangerous. To protect yourself, your family, your employees and anyone else who may be affected by working with chainsaws, you should follow three points - safe saw, safe operator and safe site (SOS).

Quad bikes can be useful to help you work on the farm, but they can't go everywhere and do everything. Accidents involving Quad bikes can be prevented, so heed the safety advice and stay safe.

On 1 August 2016 the new Construction (Design and Management) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2016 came into effect.

The Farm Safety Partnership (FSP) is made up of key stakeholders with an interest in farm safety. The Farm Safety Partnership aims to increase awareness of farm safety and to reduce work-related fatalities and injuries on Northern Ireland's farms

Putting in place policies and procedures to manage sickness absence and return to work does not need to be difficult.

Approved Medical Examiners of Divers are appointed by HSENI to carry out medical examinations to ensure medical fitness to dive at work.

The Control of Major Accident Hazards (COMAH) Regulations ensure that businesses take all necessary measures to prevent major accidents involving dangerous substances and limit the consequences to people and the environment of any major accidents which occur.

If your employees carry out asbestos removal work notifiable as licensable, then you have a legal duty to ensure that they are under medical surveillance by a doctor appointed by HSENI.

EMFs are present in virtually all workplaces and if they are of high enough intensity, an employer may need to take action to ensure employees are protected from any adverse effects.

Over the coming months the Health and Safety Executive for Northern Ireland (HSENI) will carry out a programme of inspections in care homes across Northern Ireland.
During the inspection programme, HSENI Inspectors will focus mainly on the issues listed below and will require improvements where failings have been identified.

Employers have duties concerning the provision and use of personal protective equipment (PPE) at work.