Health and safety law applies to all businesses, to the self-employed and to employees. However, if you employ fewer than five people you do not have to:

• have a written policy statement describing your systems and procedures for ensuring employees' health and safety
• record the significant findings of your risk assessments

Companies with five or more more employees must both have a company health and safety policy and record risk assessments. 

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