All business that handle food must be registered with their local authority - see below for contacts. For more information on Food and Hygiene matters for businesses and changes to the Hygiene laws, please see:
Food Standards Agency
For information on Hygiene Legislation, including relevant 'Safer food, better business' packs for small businesses who retail food.
Telephone: 020 7276 8829 (general helpline)
Email: helpline@foodstandards.gsi.gov.uk
Website: http://www.food.gov.uk/
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First Aid
Employers must provide appropriate and adequate first aid equipment for employees, and one member of staff should be responsible for restocking the equipment as neccessary and alerting the emergency services if required. For full details of your legal responsibilities, please see the Health & Safety Executive pages on First Aid.
As well as some courses run by the District Councils (see below where applicable), the following run First Aid courses for the workplace - St. John's Amubulance and the British Red Cross.
Tourist Accommodation Providers Pack
Want more help and guidance on topics such as health & safety, trading standards and fire safety? The new Tourism Accommodation Providers Pack is designed to support small and medium sized businesses that provide accommodation for tourists visiting Norfolk including hotels, guesthouses and B&Bs.
Produced by the Norfolk Better Regulation Partnership (including Environmental Health, Trading Standards and Fire and Rescue Services in Norfolk), the pack deals with important topics that you need to know about and will assist with complying with a range of legislations and industry safety rules.
Important topics include Health & Safety, Food Safety, Trading Standards Consumer Law & Fair Trading Legislation, Licensing Information, Fire Safety and useful contacts.
You can find the pack at www.norfolk.gov.uk/business, or request a copy from Trading Standards via trading.standards@norfolk.gov.uk or 0844 800 8013.
District Councils
Your district council will also be able to help with further information and training. Please contact direct for more information to:
Broadland District Council
Telephone: 01603 431 133
Email: environ.enforcement@broadland.gov.uk
Website: www.broadland.gov.uk/business/1101.asp
First aid: http://www.broadland.gov.uk/bcts/1070.asp
BTCS Training course timetable (until February 2009): http://www.broadland.gov.uk/PDF/BCTS_Training_leaflet_july08_training_courses.pdf
King's Lynn & West Norfolk Borough Council
Telephone: 01553 616 200
Email: foodhygieneandsafety@west-norfolk.gov.uk
Website: www.west-norfolk.gov.uk/Default.aspx?page=21420
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North Norfolk District Council
Telephone: 01263 516 0088
Email: alan.dixon@north-norfolk.gov.uk
Website: www.northnorfolk.org/environmentalhealth/default_195.asp
First aid: http://www.northnorfolk.org/health/default_3204.asp
Norwich City Council
Telephone: 01603 212 306 / 0844 980 3333
Email: ehealth@norwich.gov.uk
Website: www.norwich.gov.uk/webapps/atoz/service_page.asp?id=1074&pid=1014
Breckland District Council
Telephone: 01362 656870
Email: foodteam@breckland.gov.uk
Website: www.breckland.gov.uk/brecklandcouncil/environment/environmentalhealth/foodproduction/food.htm
South Norfolk District Council
Telephone: 0808 168 4444 / 01508 533714
Email: envserv@s-norfolk.gov.uk
Website: http://www.south-norfolk.gov.uk/environment/727.asp
Great Yarmouth Borough Council
Telephone: 01493 846478
Email: health@great-yarmouth.gov.uk
Website: http://www.great-yarmouth.gov.uk/environment/food_safety.htm