The Enforcement Management Model (EMM)

If one of our inspectors finds your business is breaking health and safety laws, they may take action. This could include:

  • an improvement notice
  • a prohibition notice
  • a prosecution in some cases

An improvement notice, prohibition notice or prosecution are all 'enforcement actions'. We have to be consistent in our approach to these. The Enforcement Management Model (EMM) (PDF) [16] is a guide that helps us to do this.

The EMM gives our inspectors guidance to help them decide:

  • if they should take enforcement action
  • what sort of enforcement action to take

The EMM is a guide. It's not a strict set of rules that inspectors have to follow.

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. Enforcement Management Model (EMM)https://www.hse.gov.uk/enforce/assets/docs/emm.pdf
  17. What to expect when a health and safety inspector callshttps://www.hse.gov.uk/pubns/hsc14.htm
  18. Regulation of health and safety at workhttps://www.hse.gov.uk/pubns/hse51.htm
  19. Enforcement Policy Statement (EPS)https://www.hse.gov.uk/enforce/enforcepolicy.htm
  20. Enforcement Management Model (EMM)https://www.hse.gov.uk/enforce/enforcement-management-model.htm
  21. Enforcement guide - England and Waleshttps://www.hse.gov.uk/enforce/enforcementguide/index.htm
  22. Enforcement guide - Scotlandhttps://www.hse.gov.uk/enforce/enforcementguidesc/index.htm
  23. Fee for intervention (FFI)https://www.hse.gov.uk/fee-for-intervention/index.htm

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Updated 2017-03-31