Health and Safety
& other relevant employer advice for those wishing to take on apprentices
Please find below relevant links for Health and Safety information for guidance purposes. If you wish to receive our newsletter which will contain updates for engineering/manufacturing Health and Safety, in straightforward language then please feel free to subscribe to our e-mail newsletter.
Useful links and downloads
Health & Safety
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As a general guide to the five steps to Risk Assessments then please click here
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For information about Reporting Injuries, Diseases and Dangerous Occurrences (RIDDOR) then please click here
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For a useful tool which can be adapted for your company's use as an initial Health & Safety Induction checklist then please click here to download
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For details about preventing injuries using manual handling then please click here
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For general guidance from a health and safety perspective with regard to young people on work experience then please click here
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Information about Employer's Liability Insurance please click here
National Minimum Wage
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For information about National Minimum Wage rates please below. Please note that the following is stated regarding apprenticeships:
Train To Gain
- Train to Gain is a Government initiative to improve training provision for employed staff. Your staff could be eligible to be funded for various level 2 to level 5 courses. For some more information then please click here
- If you are not sure whether your staff may be eligible for a particular course under Train To Gain funding then please check the eligibility matrix here
We hope that the above links prove to be useful for you and your companies use ~ Why not save the page to your favourites so that you have a ready reference source of information?
We shall endeavour to maintain and update the above links and add to them over a period of time. Although primarily aimed at companies who take on apprentices we would like to feel that the links and documents will be useful for general Health & Safety guidance, to help to maintain a safe working environment for all employees.
If you have any suggestions about links which you would like to view in future on this page then please email us at the following link j.cooper@eagit.org
