Legal requirements

The Environmental Protection Act of 1990, Workplace Regulations (1966) and other legislative bodies such as Environmental Health Office (EHO) and the Health and Safety Executive (HSE), even your local council authority, may all expect to see an appropriate disposal system in practice, according to your own circumstances and risk assessments.

Contrary to what some would have you believe, the truth is you may not have to engage a professional service provider, but you do have to comply with those other legal requirements above! Time consuming and costly as the above can be, often it is thought worthwhile to bring in the professionals for this reason alone.

Even if you do choose a professional service provider, you still have a DUTY of CARE responsibility to comply with.
A Duty of Care Certificate from a licensed carrier can prove you have responsibly disposed of your waste.

Your Duty of Care responsibility is to check that a service provider engaged by you is properly licensed to carry waste away
on your behalf. Breach of this requirement alone is a criminal offence punishable by a fine of up to £2,000.

Whether you have a cleaner who ‘manages’ this aspect for you ‘in house’, or a contract cleaner, it remains your waste.
If you are not aware of the volume of waste or exact disposal methods used, you could be failing in your Duty of Care – unfortunately ignorance is no defence under the law so please check.

You can verify our license (as with anybody else’s) by following the link on the environment page.