Doncaster Council

The Health & Safety Team

The Council is responsible for enforcing the law on health and safety at work in most of the workplaces in the Borough, apart from factories, local authority premises and Government premises, which are the responsibility of the Health and Safety Executive (HSE).  

More information on the HSE can be found at their website which you can link to from the left hand menu. 

Environmental Health Officers will investigate complaints made to them by employees about unhealthy or unsafe working conditions.  The confidentiality of any complaints will be respected.  

Neglect of health and safety at work can lead to ill health and accidents, which can be fatal in some cases.

Certain types of injury, diseases and dangerous occurrences arising out of a work activity, are required to be reported to us by law under the Reporting of Injuries, Diseases and Dangerous Occurrences Regulations(RIDDOR).  The team will then investigate these as appropriate. Details of the types of incidents that need to be reported and the means by which they can be reported can be found by clicking on the 'Report an Accident' link in the left hand menu.

The team are keen to offer advice to business on how to reduce accidents and ill health and help them save money by doing this.

Guidance is available on issues such as:

• Preparing a health and safety policy document
• Electrical safety
• The provision of information guidance and training to employees
• Reporting of injuries diseases and dangerous occurrences
• Provision of Health and Safety posters and documentation
• First Aid
• Employers Liability Insurance
• Welfare provisions at work
• Risk Assessment                                                      

To instantly download free HSE leaflets select 'free leaflets' in the related links column.

If you are a new business, or if you have not previously done so, you will need to register either with your local Authority or with the HSE depending on the sort of business you have.  Broadly speaking you should register with:

• Your local authority by completing form OSR1 (which you can download/complete on line below) for notice of employment of persons in offices, shops, wholesale premises or warehouses, catering establishments and fuel storage premises; or
• The HSE by completing form F9 (available from the HSE Website) giving notice of factory occupation                             

If you are registering your business with this Local Authority then the completed OSR1 form should be forwarded to the H & S Enforcement Team at the above address. Alternatively you can complete on line by clicking on the e form below. NB.before completing the e form please ensure you have read the guidance notes page 2-4 of the OSR1 form available in pdf format below.

eform:  Offices, Shops and Railway Premises Act 1963 Registration Form

The team have the power to serve notices to improve working conditions where the law is being broken or take more serious enforcement action if an employer has been negligent or flouting the law.

The Health and Safety team have an enforcement policy which is drawn up in conjunction with other neighbouring authorities. 

If you have any queries about matters involving the Health and Safety Team please contact us on the details above.

• OSR1 Registration Form