The Health and Safety Inspectorate (HSI) is the sole independent regulator for workplace health and safety in Jersey. We cover all workplaces and work activities on the Island.
What we do
We enforce the Health and Safety at Work (Jersey) Law 1989 (the Law), which is designed to protect workers and the public. It is criminal law with offences subject to unlimited fines and in some cases imprisonment.
The fundamental principle of health and safety law is that those that create the risks are best placed to control them. Our role is to work with employers, the self-employed etc. to promote effective risk management to help them understand the risks they create and how to use the Law to manage them.
We use a variety of methods to influence behavioural change and help people manage their risks at work. These include:
- providing advice, information and guidance
- raising awareness in workplaces by influencing and engaging
- operating licensing activities for higher-risk work
- carrying out targeted inspections and investigations
- taking enforcement action to prevent harm and hold those who break the law to account
We target our activities on those sectors and activities with the most serious risks or where the risks are least well-controlled.
What we don’t do
We do not manage risk on behalf of a dutyholder or provide reassurance of a dutyholder’s ongoing risk management. HSI interventions are timebound and focussed on significant risks, they are not a comprehensive audit of an entire business. The responsibility for enduring risk management remains with the dutyholder at all times.
We are not a substitute for competent health and safety advice. If you do not have sufficient in-house expertise, you should engage a competent health and safety advisor or consultant.
We are not a health and safety consultancy; we cannot undertake risk assessments or develop method statements on your behalf.
If you are injured at work HSI cannot advise on civil claims that you may wish to pursue.
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