Your local authority health and safety at work team
We are responsible for health and safety enforcement on more than 16,500 commercial premises in Leeds.
We deal with most non-industrial workplaces such as catering, wholesale and retail premises, consumer services, leisure and cultural sites, offices, religious premises, cosmetic treatment businesses and various other types of workplace. This includes
- Carrying out inspections of workplaces to promote good practice and make sure business keep to the health and safety law.
- Providing advice and guidance for employers so they can meet their health and safety obligations.
- Giving advice to employees, the self-employed and members of the public on work-related issues affecting health, safety and welfare.
- Investigating work-related accidents, certain dangerous incidents such as 'near misses' and cases of occupational ill health.
- Investigating complaints about working conditions and hazards in the workplace.
- Licensing and registration of skin piercing premises, reservoirs, Sunday trading activities and cooling towers.
- Training, information provision and promotional work to raise awareness on a wide range of health and safety topics.
- Developing and using relationships with other organisations with an interest in health and safety, such as business associations and occupational health groups.
You can contact us using the details on the top right hand side of this page
You can download a number of factsheets on health and safety for different business sectors from this page.
The Health and Safety Executive (HSE)
The HSE are responsible for health and safety enforcement at larger industries, such as factories, farms, hospitals and the railways. For more information on their work, you can visit their website by following the link on this page.
HSE’s regional office in Leeds can be contacted by telephone on 0113 2834200.
Both your Local Authority Health and Safety enforcement team and HSE are accountable to the Health and Safety Commission.
The Health and Safety Executive also produce a wide range of information and advice leaflets for businesses. You can get a full list of available HSE leaflets from the HSE website.