Health and Safety for Local Councils

Author: Vic Quayle
Pages: Approx 400
Type of book: Loose leaf manual with regular updates and newsletter

Annual subscription £95.00 after first year ensures manual is kept up to date when health and safety law and advice changes.

The essential guide to health and safety for town, parish and community councils.

Specially written for local councils by a former health and safety inspector and clerk, this manual covers all the key requirements of the Health and Safety at Work Act.

All the 30 or so sets of health and safety regulations that can apply to local council work are explained in detail together with the Corporate Manslaughter and Corporate Homicide Act 2007. Detailed advice about the new Health and Safety (Offences) Act 2008, which substantially increases the penalties for safety oversights, is also given.

Subjects covered include risk assessment, safety policies, fire safety, work at heights, stress, occupier’s liability, training, chemicals and many more relevant to the everyday work of local councils.

The content also includes the full text of more than 70 HSE guidance publications together with tables, charts, illustrations and other essential information – a library of indispensable advice at the fingertips.

Finally there are templates for carrying out risk assessments as well as sample assessments, checklists, inspection forms and other useful information.


"Health & Safety for Local Councils has proved to be exceptionally useful document, in helping to deal with day to day H & S issues, in this low risk sector of Local Government”, John Winchester MILCM, Dawlish Town Council