Health and Safety
Executive / Commission
Looking after your business
Accidents and ill health at work can cost money and ruin lives. Good health and safety is good business – and it’s the law.
Getting started with health and safety may feel daunting, but it doesn’t have to be complicated, time-consuming or expensive. HSE is here to help – with online advice and tools, and our free, confidential helpline.
Our ten-point list of what you must do gives advice and tools to help you meet your key health and safety responsibilities, including a health and safety policy template and links to example risk assessments for different types of work.
Download a free basic guide for small businesses, including two ready-made templates for a risk assessment and a health and safety policy: An introduction to health and safety [363KB]
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For a brief guide to health and safety law [64KB] look at our free leaflet. You may also find our roles and responsibilities pages useful.
Our website has a wealth of industry and topic-specific information so you can find exactly what’s relevant to you: follow the links or use the search tool on our homepage.
Don’t forget: the confidential HSE Infoline is just a phone call away on 0845 345 0055. See our Ask an Expert page for alternative ways to get in touch.
You can buy HSE’s ready-made starter pack, which includes HSE’s best-selling publication ‘Essentials of health and safety at work’, the health and safety law poster, accident book and other useful documents at a discounted price.
