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Health and safety at work

Accidents in the workplace

If you have a serious accident at work - including something that stops you working for three days or more - your employer must report the accident to the Health and Safety Executive for Northern Ireland

Accidents in the workplace - more information

Employees' health and safety responsibilities

Employees' legal health and safety duties and guidance on reporting workplace hazards and accidents

Employers' health and safety responsibilities

Guide to employers' responsibilities for the health and safety of their employees

Health and Safety representatives

The legal rights and responsibilities of health and safety representatives, consultation they must receive, becoming a safety rep and protection for whistleblowers

Drug testing and employee monitoring

The effect of drug misuse in the workplace, balancing the need to ensure safety with workers' rights to privacy, CCTV, email, levels of workplace monitoring

Safe manual work

Find out about safe manual work and how you can best deal with occupational hazards and illnesses

Accidents in the workplace

Understand your rights if you have an accident at work and how to bring an injury claim against your employer if you think they're at fault

Suspension from work on medical/health and safety grounds

Read about when you may be suspended from work on health and safety grounds, what pay you'll receive and what happens if you're pregnant

Safe computer use

Obligations on employers to minimise the health risks of working with computers, rights to breaks, help with equipment and eyesight tests for employees

Workplace stress

What is stress, where it comes from, how your employer can help reduce it and options available to you

Special health and safety hazards

More about the regulations dealing with particular hazards and for industries where hazards are particularly high  

Reporting of injuries, diseases and dangerous occurrences

There is a legal obligation to report certain types of incident in the workplace to the relevant authorities

Advice on travelling to work in bad weather

Find out about your responsibilities when the weather makes it difficult to get to work