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Keeping your business safe

This page gives you links to help you keep your business safe and your employees safe at work.

Southampton Port Health Services

Southampton Port Health Authority functions.

Health and Safety at Work

The Pollution and Safety Service aims to ensure that all workplaces allocated to the Council for enforcement operate in compliance with the law, and without causing ill health to employees and others. This page tells you how we work and what businesses need to do.

How to report work related incidents

We inspect certain accidents, illness and ‘near misses’ which happen at work, or because of a business. This helps us to make sure that other people are not harmed in the future. This page tells you how to report work-related incidents.

Food safety regulations

New food hygiene laws came into force in the UK from 1st January 2006 and affect all food businesses, including caterers, primary producers (such as farmers), manufacturers, distributors and retailers. This page gives you more information and a link to the food standards agency.

Food Safety

The Food Safety Service consists of 8 environmental health practitioners who cover all the areas within Southampton City Council's administrative boundary. To find out what they do please read on.

Food labelling

This page gives advice to businesses on food labelling; enforcement of legislation relating to food labelling. Includes packaged food, descriptions applied to meals and food at take-away outlets. Program of sampling of food and investigation of complaints relating to food which is misdescribed and past use-by dates.

Industrial Pollution Control

The Environmental Health (Pollution & Safety) Team issue certain industrial installations with a permit to operate.

Skin Piercing

The Pollution and Safety Team registers people who practice acupuncture or who run a business offering tattooing, semi-permanent skin colouring, electrolysis, or cosmetic piercing including ear piercing.