To begin working towards a Healthy Working Lives Award you must first register your details with us.

To find out more, and to register your details to take part, please contact the Adviceline and ask to speak to one of your local Healthy Working Lives Advisers.

Registration Form Terms and Conditions

By completing the registration form you consent to the Scottish Centre for Healthy Working Lives (the Centre) holding and using the information you submit. We will use this information to process your registration and administer any services we offer to you as part of the Healthy Working Lives Award Programme. The information you provide will be processed by the Centre and will be passed on to our Advisers for the purpose of the Award Programme.We will keep that information confidential and we will not disclose it to any third parties, unless we are required to do so by law.

The Centre may, from time to time, further process any data you submit in order to remove personally identifiable information. In such circumstances,we may make further use of such ‘anonymised’ data for statistical or training purposes.You have the right at any time to change your registration details or cancel your registration by contacting the Centre. You also have the right at any time to request a copy of the information we hold on you and your business (provided it has not in the meantime been destroyed or deleted from our records), for which we may charge a reasonable fee. Our more detailed Privacy Policy is available from NHS Health Scotland.

Please note in certain circumstances it may be appropriate for the Centre to suspend the participation of a business or organisation in the Healthy Working Lives Award Programme, for example, pending the outcome of an enquiry into an accident in the workplace.

Likewise, it may under certain circumstances be appropriate to withdraw an Award, for example,where it has been established that the standard of safety in the workplace in question has fallen well below an acceptable standard, or postpone the presentation of an Award,for example, pending full implementation of partially implemented recommendations issued by the Centre.

Accordingly,the Centre may at its absolute discretion suspend the participation of a business or organisation in the Programme, withdraw an Award or postpone the presentation of an Award.

Disclaimer
Submitting your registration will constitute acceptance of this disclaimer without modification or amendment.

The role of the Scottish Centre for Healthy Working Lives (the Centre) is to promote healthier and safer workplaces by reviewing working environments and offering Scottish employers guidance and support in the implementation of successful health and safety and employment policies.

The Centre is not a certifying body, or part of, or affiliated with a certifying body. Possession of a Healthy Working Lives (HWL) Award means that the participant meets, at the time of the Award, certain criteria set by the Centre for the purposes of the HWL Award Programme. It does not constitute certification that the participant complies with the law (including the relevant Health and Safety and Employment legislation).Participation in the programme does not remove,replace, or qualify to any extent the participant’s obligation to comply with the law (including Health and Safety and Employment law).

All advice provided by the Centre is based on the information the participant has provided about the circumstances of his/her business/organisation. Even though the Centre shall make every effort to ensure the adequacy, completeness and suitability of its recommendations and reviews for the purposes of the HWL Award Programme, the participant understands and accepts that such recommendations and reviews do not constitute legal advice,and that the Centre and its officers, employees and Advisers shall not be responsible for the adequacy or adequate implementation of such recommendations and reviews.

Therefore no recommendation or review provided shall in any circumstances constitute a warranty,representation or understanding by the Centre as to the adequacy or adequate implementation of such recommendation and review for the purposes of compliance with the law, including Health and Safety and Employment legislation.The Centre and its officers, employees and Advisers shall not in any event be held liable for any loss or damage that may be suffered, whether directly or indirectly, by the participant and/or any third party as a result of the participant acting upon such recommendation or review.