Health and Safety

Health and Safety standards

You must ensure that your business meets the necessary health and safety standards and procedures. Find out more about these standards on the Health and Safety Executive website.

Visit HSE website

Report an accident

It is the legal duty of employers, the self-employed and people in control of work premises to report serious workplace accidents, occupational diseases and specified dangerous occurrences (near misses).

Report an accident

We enforce and investigate health and safety complaints about workplaces in Gateshead, such as reportable accidents, dangerous occurrences and reportable diseases. We inspect:

Shops and offices
Warehouses
Hotels and leisure facilities.
Residential care homes (except nursing homes)
Nursing agencies
Catering establishments

Contact us

Environmental Health
Gateshead Council
Civic Centre
Regent Street
Gateshead
NE8 1HH

0191 433 3951
environmentalhealth@gateshead.gov.uk

Business

Health and Safety