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If your business has been accused of a health and safety breach, or you would simply like to access training and support, our health and safety solicitors at Rollits can help.

Our experienced lawyers provide tailored solutions to help your business comply with UK health and safety regulations and minimise risks.

Our team understand that being accused of a health and safety breach can be extremely stressful and overwhelming experience, with range of potential implications for you and your business. Thankfully, you can trust our solicitors to take a proactive approach, helping you to safeguard your interests, and achieve the best possible outcome.

At Rollits we can help you with a wide range of related matters, such as:

  • Health and safety legal advice
  • Health and Safety Executive action
  • Policies & procedures
  • Health & safety training

Contact our health & safety solicitors

If you require legal support with health & safety, please get in touch with our expert health & safety solicitors at Rollits.

You can contact John Ashworth on 01482 337296 or email moc.s1735579772tillo1735579772r@htr1735579772owhsa1735579772.nhoj1735579772.

Why work with Rollits?

With extensive experience in health and safety law, working with companies across a diverse range of sectors, Rollits offer a premier, tailor-made service to suit your unique health and safety needs.

We appreciate how challenging it can be to adhere to health and safety legislation. Without an in-depth understanding of this area, you could put your business at risk, damaging your business reputation and incurring financial loss.

Being accused of a health & safety breach is serious, and in certain circumstances can even lead to prosecution. For this reason, it is imperative to get the support of highly experienced expert health and safety solicitors

Our health and safety solicitors service

Health and safety legal advice

Our expert health and safety solicitors at Rollits can provide a wide range of health and safety legal advice to employers.

Specifically, we can help with matters that include the following:

  • Health and Safety Executive action
  • Policies and procedures
  • Health & safety training

Health and Safety Executive action

The Health and Safety Executive (HSE) is an organisation responsible for regulating and monitoring and assessing workplace health and safety in Britain.

The HSE could be taking action against your organisation for suspected health and safety violations, whether through a Prohibition Notice, Enforcement Notice, or even prosecution.

Our health and safety lawyers can offer support in various ways, including:

  • Providing advice and guidance during investigations
  • Attending interviews under caution
  • Defending prosecutions and/or presenting representations in mitigation of an offence

We realise that circumstances such as these can be stressful, and assure you that our solicitors have much experience supporting businesses. Our team will help you to assess your options, and resolve matters as swiftly as possible.

Policies and procedures

At Rollits, our specialist health and safety solicitors can provide support and guidance on policies and procedures, helping you to ensure regulatory compliance for your company.

We can advise on a wide range of policies and procedures, to include:

  • Helping you to draft a health and safety policy, outlining how health and safety will be managed and monitored
  • Supporting you to create risk assessment procedures, and to manage and reduce risks in your workplace
  • Assistance with policies and procedures for accident and incident reporting

Our team are able to provide bespoke health and safety advice based on an understanding of your business and your needs.

To learn more get in touch with our regulatory solicitors at Rollits.

Health & safety training

At Rollits, we can provide health and safety training for those who are responsible for implementing and managing health and safety within businesses.

Our expert team can provide various types of health and safety training across different areas, including:

  • Health and safety regulations and compliance
  • Risk assessment procedures
  • Drafting health and safety policies and procedures
  • Requirements for fire safety
  • Responsibilities under the Health and Safety Act 1974
  • General advice on health and safety at work in the context of your business

If you would like more information about our health and safety training services, please get in touch with our experts at Rollits.

Frequently asked questions about health and safety

What must employers do under the Health and Safety Act?

Under the Health & Safety Act 1974, employers are required to adhere to the following general areas, though this is not an exhaustive list:

  • Provide sufficient health & safety training to all staff, making certain that policies and procedures are well understood and followed
  • Providing a safe working environment at all times, ensuring that all equipment, buildings and facilities are well maintained
  • Putting measures in place to protect the welfare of employees whilst at work
  • Ensuring that all operations are carried out safely

What are the consequences of a breach of health and safety?

If an employer breaches health and safety, they might face a range of consequences, depending on the type of breach, the severity and circumstances.

Potential consequences include significant fines, compensation claims, enforcement action from HSE, or even criminal prosecution.

If you have been accused of a breach of health and safety, it is vital that you seek the support of an expert health and safety solicitor as soon as possible.

Where can you get advice and support relating to health and safety?

If you would like advice and support relating to health and safety, we provide training for business owners, or anyone else who is responsible for health and safety within an organisation.

If you would like to learn more about our services, please get in touch today.

Contact our health & safety solicitors

If you require legal support with health & safety, please get in touch with our expert health & safety solicitors at Rollits.

You can contact John Ashworth on 01482 337296 or email moc.s1735579772tillo1735579772r@htr1735579772owhsa1735579772.nhoj1735579772.

Get in Touch

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