Posted By Paul Howe
Does anyone know of a definitive publication outlining the record keeping requirements associated with Health and Safety. I am aware of some e.g., accident records, health surveillance for radiation, asbestos etc, but was wondering if everything is included somewhere. The reason I ask is that the Company I work for is shutting down and I need to make sure the appropriate information is kept.


Thanks in advance for any help.

Cheers

Paul

Posted By Nigel Hammond
Have a look at IND218 which you can download free off HSE bookfinder website:

http://www.hse.gov.uk/pubns/indg218.pdf

It does not give many black and white answers though - much like most of health & safety! I find the problem with HSE and other enforcement people is that there advice on record keeping is more to do with providing evidence in case of prosecution. If you want to protect your organisation from litigation, I suspect you need to keep documents a lot longer.

Have a look at my thread I started last June on 'Archiving'