Advice and guidance on the law

We provide targeted advice, information and guidance to help dutyholders comply with health and safety law in a sensible and proportionate way.

We use several methods including:

  • guidance that is either topic[16] or industry[17] based, explaining risks and practical controls
  • publications on how to comply with the law[18], including Approved Codes of Practice that show how you can achieve compliance
  • self-assessment aids, web-based tools, videos and case studies showing how people have successfully tackled risks in their workplace [19]

Our information is tailored to the needs of our various users. It is concise and straightforward, proportionate to the risk and focused on what is required by law.

We recognise that small and medium-sized businesses (SMEs) can find it particularly difficult to understand what is required of them so we have developed guidance [20]specifically for them.

Helping others produce advice

We work in partnership with trade associations and trade bodies to help them develop guidance, information and training courses for their industries. Together with them, we deliver Safety and Health Awareness days (SHADs) for specific sectors, for example agriculture.

Further information

Our role as a regulator[21].

Link URLs in this page

  1. How HSE regulateshttps://www.hse.gov.uk/enforce/index.htm
  2. Overview - Our role as a regulatorhttps://www.hse.gov.uk/enforce/our-role-as-regulator.htm
  3. Strategy policy and lawhttps://www.hse.gov.uk/enforce/strategy-policy-legal.htm
  4. Advice and guidancehttps://www.hse.gov.uk/enforce/advice-information-guidance.htm
  5. Influencing and engaginghttps://www.hse.gov.uk/enforce/influencing-engaging.htm
  6. Permissioning and licensinghttps://www.hse.gov.uk/enforce/permissioning-licensing.htm
  7. How we inspecthttps://www.hse.gov.uk/enforce/how-we-inspect.htm
  8. When and how we investigate https://www.hse.gov.uk/enforce/when-how-investigate.htm
  9. Overview - Enforcement actionhttps://www.hse.gov.uk/enforce/enforcement.htm
  10. Enforcement Policy Statement (EPS)https://www.hse.gov.uk/enforce/enforcepolicy.htm
  11. Enforcement Management Model (EMM)https://www.hse.gov.uk/enforce/enforcement-management-model.htm
  12. Working with other regulatorshttps://www.hse.gov.uk/enforce/working-with-other-regulators.htm
  13. Expert guidance on risk managementhttps://www.hse.gov.uk/enforce/expert/index.htm
  14. Register of convictions and noticeshttps://www.hse.gov.uk/enforce/convictions.htm
  15. Resourceshttps://www.hse.gov.uk/enforce/resources.htm
  16. topichttps://www.hse.gov.uk/guidance/topics.htm
  17. industryhttps://www.hse.gov.uk/guidance/industries.htm
  18. how to comply with the lawhttps://www.hse.gov.uk/legislation/legal-status.htm
  19. risks in their workplace https://www.hse.gov.uk/risk/index.htm
  20. guidance https://www.hse.gov.uk/managing/index.htm
  21. Our role as a regulatorhttps://www.hse.gov.uk/enforce/our-role-as-regulator.htm
  22. What to expect when a health and safety inspector callshttps://www.hse.gov.uk/pubns/hsc14.htm
  23. Regulation of health and safety at workhttps://www.hse.gov.uk/pubns/hse51.htm
  24. Enforcement Policy Statement (EPS)https://www.hse.gov.uk/enforce/enforcepolicy.htm
  25. Enforcement Management Model (EMM)https://www.hse.gov.uk/enforce/enforcement-management-model.htm
  26. Enforcement guide - England and Waleshttps://www.hse.gov.uk/enforce/enforcementguide/index.htm
  27. Enforcement guide - Scotlandhttps://www.hse.gov.uk/enforce/enforcementguidesc/index.htm
  28. Fee for intervention (FFI)https://www.hse.gov.uk/fee-for-intervention/index.htm

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Updated 2023-04-25