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Health and Safety at work

Health and Safety at Work is regulated by the Local Authority and the Health and Safety Executive. There are specific regulations on which authority regulates which work activity, but there can sometimes be grey areas.

Local authority responsibility

Retail shops
Pubs
Restaurant/cafés
Offices
Beauty therapy businesses
Nail bars
Tattooists/piercers
Hairdressers and barbers
Children’s nurseries/playgroups (not provided by or on school premises)
Residential homes for the elderly (not nursing homes)
Builders’ merchants
Warehouse/storage facilities
Sports facilities/clubs
Gymnasia
Visitor/tourist attractions
Petrol stations
Car washes at petrol stations
Hotels and temporary accommodation
Car show rooms (not service or repairs)
Tyre and exhaust fitters.

For advice, or to make a complaint about a work activity listed above and regulated by the local authority, contact our environmental health team on:

Email environmentalhealth@eppingforestdc.gov.uk

Health and Safety Executive responsibility

Construction and demolition sites and work by domestic builders/roofers/scaffolders
Any form of manufacturing site/factory
Standalone hand car washes
Work by a contractor (gas, electric, water, telecommunications) in domestic premises
Nursing homes
Delivery services
Schools and other educational establishments
Garages offering mechanical repairs/servicing/body shop
Dry cleaners
Doctors
Dentists and other medical premises
Chemical sites

For advice, or to make a complaint about a work activity listed above and regulated by the Health and Safety Executive contact them on:

Call 0300 003 1647
Visit the HSE website

A to Z guide

If you are still unsure whether the Local Authority or Health and Safety Executive regulates the work activity you are enquiring about, view the A to Z guide which lists many work activities and their regulating authority