How HSE regulates

As a regulator, our goal is to prevent workplace death, injury or ill health.

We achieve this by working with dutyholders to help them understand the risks they create and how to manage them.

Our role as a regulator[16]

Resources

More resources[20]

What regulatory enforcement means for you

Find out what regulation and enforcement means for your business:

Major hazard industries

We operate permissioning and licensing[26] activities in major hazard industries.

Our strategy, policy and legal framework

We set the strategy, policy and legal framework[27] for health and safety in Great Britain.

We also work collaboratively with other regulators[28], agencies and government departments.

How we influence and engage

We encourage broader ownership by influencing and engaging[29] all those who have an interest in health and safety.

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. Our role as a regulatorhttps://www.hse.gov.uk/enforce/our-role-as-regulator.htm
  17. Enforcement Policy (EPS)https://www.hse.gov.uk/enforce/enforcepolicy.htm
  18. When an inspector callshttps://www.hse.gov.uk/pubns/hsc14.htm
  19. Prosecutions and noticeshttps://www.hse.gov.uk/enforce/convictions.htm
  20. More resourceshttps://www.hse.gov.uk/enforce/resources.htm
  21. How we inspecthttps://www.hse.gov.uk/enforce/how-we-inspect.htm
  22. When and how we investigate https://www.hse.gov.uk/enforce/when-how-investigate.htm
  23. Advice and guidancehttps://www.hse.gov.uk/enforce/advice-information-guidance.htm
  24. Enforcement actionhttps://www.hse.gov.uk/enforce/enforcement.htm
  25. When do I need to report an incident?https://www.hse.gov.uk/riddor/index.htm
  26. permissioning and licensinghttps://www.hse.gov.uk/enforce/permissioning-licensing.htm
  27. strategy, policy and legal frameworkhttps://www.hse.gov.uk/enforce/strategy-policy-legal.htm
  28. work collaboratively with other regulatorshttps://www.hse.gov.uk/enforce/working-with-other-regulators.htm
  29. influencing and engaginghttps://www.hse.gov.uk/enforce/influencing-engaging.htm

Glossary of abbreviations/acronyms on this page

EPS
Enforcement Policy Statement

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2023-06-29