Health nd Safety in Care Settings

• The main body responsible for enforcing legislation and providig health and safety in the work place. 
• HSE covers: offices, factories, hospitls, schools, mines, building sites, railways.

HSE employs health and safety enforcement who can:

• Enter premises
• Conduct investigations
• Take samples and photographs
• Ask questions
• Give advice
• Issue instructions that must be carried out by law
• Initiate a prosecution
• Inspect documents
• Issue improvement and prohibition notices.

Provide a frame work for a safe working enviornment. 
Prosecution can occur if you do not comply with the Law.