Health and Safety Executive (HSE)
- Health and Safety Executive
- This body is responsible for investigating health and safety aspects particularly those potentially dangerous or injurious to residents and visitors and includes trades-people.
- Landlords have a duty of care to provide adequate scaffold for their maintenance people when say,pointing a chimney.
- In the event of a fall, the landlord is very likely to be responsible unless he can demonstrate that he exercised due diligence.
Published: 8 November 2013 Last Updated: 17 November 2021