Health and safety in the salon
As a business owner, it is your moral and legal responsibility to ensure your team members are working in the most safe and healthy conditions possible. The same applies to your clients, suppliers and anyone else who may enter your salon, or other business premises.
Looking after your people in this way also makes good business sense - it can mean less work days lost to illness and reduces accidents and the costs associated with them.
Avoidance is always best, but if an accident does occur in the workplace, the business owner or manager may need to report it to the HSE, depending on its severity.
Recent changes to the way accidents in the workplace are reported places greater onus on the business owner or manger to understand their legal obligations under the RIDOR (Reporting of Injuries, Diseases and Dangerous Occurrences Regulations 1995). In line with Government spending cuts, access to advice and information from the Health & Safety Executive (HSE) is severely restricted, with the axing of its information line in 2011.
Adhering to Health and Safety workplace regulations is a complex procedure, but as a business owner your basic obligations would include:
