Industry specific competence
The competence required can vary depending on the work or workplace involved. To find competence-related guidance for a specific industry, task or working environment, please select from the alphabetical list below.
If you cannot find what you are looking for here, try the drop-down menus for Topics or Industries on the HSE Home page.
Information on standards for different industries can also be found on the following websites:
- National Occupational Standards (NOS)
- Alliance of Sector Skills Councils
HSE competence-related guidance
- Confined spaces: Safe Working in Confined Spaces Regulations 1997
- Construction (Design and management) Regulations 2015
- Diving qualifications
- Driver competence
- Driver recruitment
- Electrical safety at work
- Electricity at Work Regulations 1989 (memorandum of guidance)
- Gas safety: Safety in the installation and use of gas systems and appliances
- Human factors: Training and competence
- Lift truck training
- Pressure systems: Safety of pressure systems
- Safety related systems: Managing competence for safety-related systems (Part one – Key guidance)
- Safety related systems: Managing competence for safety-related systems (Part two – Supplementary material)
- Quarries: Competence (general)
- Radiation : Radiation protection advisers
- Vehicles at work
- Woodworking: Safe use of woodworking machinery
- Work equipment and machinery: Training and competence