Food, health and safety

Food safety for food businesses

Advice on how to start and run your food business, information on food safety management, details on support from charities and community groups.

Check your rating and inspection reports, see how to appeal your rating, request a rerating and right to reply.

Find useful information and advice on handling high risk foods safely to avoid getting ill from them.

Report an accident at work or health and safety concerns, advice for small businesses, initiatives we support and cooling tower registration.

If you offer skin‑piercing treatments, you must register both the premises and the practitioners carrying out the work.

Find out about and apply for the seven business merits we offer to promote businesses that provide extra benefits to customers.