Our aims and objectives are to ensure through education and enforcement that employers ensure the Health, Safety and welfare of their employees by providing safe working conditions and giving adequate training in safe working practices to minimise the risk of illness or injury.
We also are concerned to protect the health and safety of people such as customers in a shop or guests at a hotel who may be affected by work activities.
We are entirely impartial and we work with employers and employees with the aim of securing satisfactory standards. 
 
Our work involves:

• Providing advice and information free of charge
• Inspection of workplaces
• Investigation of accidents, dangerous occurrences or outbreaks of industrial disease
• Enforcement of the standards required by law, usually by advice, by legal notice, where appropriate and if absolutely necessary by prosecution 

We endeavour always to ensure that our requirements are proportionate to the degree of risk to health or safety.  We are approachable, we take account of representations made to us and we listen and respond to anyone who is not satisfied with our actions, policies or decisions.