Health and Safety
Health & Safety
Welcome to Lancaster City Council's environmental health and safety pages. Use the links below to access individual pages for information, advice, forms and leaflets.
Health and Safety News
The Health and Safety Team is responsible for ensuring that over 3,000 premises in the district are maintaining good standards of health and safety. These premises include shops, offices, hotels, restaurants, warehouses and leisure facilities. The key duties and responsibilities include:
Accident Prevention Partnership
Caravan Site Licensing
Licensing of over 100 caravan sites and programmed inspections.
Complaint Investigations
Investigations of health and safety related complaints
Cooling Tower Registration
The council maintains a register of cooling towers, which have been associated with Legionnaire's Disease elsewhere in the country.
Health Promotion
Promotion of various safety and health related initiatives including the popular schools safety quiz.
Health and Safety Executive
Certain premises such as factories, hospitals and building sites are regulated not by the city council but by the Health and Safety Executive (telephone 0161 952 8200).
Prosecutions Register
Click the following link to be taken to the Health and Safety Executive Enforcement page for the full list of all local authority enforced health and safety related prosecutions:
http://www.hse.gov.uk/enforce/index.htm
Registration of Premises for Health and Safety
If you employ staff you should register your premises with the council using the online form. In addition, if you sell or prepare food you must also register as a Food Premises
Swimming Pools
Inspection and Sampling of public and private pools throughout the district.