HSE’s services: hsedirect and HSE Books

The Health and Safety Executive publishes a range of free and priced information.

Priced publications

The priced publications include guidance documents, legal publications, newsletters on subscription and multimedia products. The full range of HSE priced publications can be purchased via the HSE Books website or from HSE Books at: HSE Books, PO Box 1999, Sudbury, Suffolk CO10 2WA. Tel: 01787 881165.

Free material

In addition to this, HSE publishes a great deal of free information including:

• Leaflets NB Free leaflets can also be obtained from HSE Books
• Research reports
• Annual reports
• Strategies and plans
• Journals
• Freedom of Information material

hsedirect

hsedirect is a subscription service providing full-text access to the full range of HSE guidance publications as well as the consolidated and annotated text of health and safety legislation and recent legislative changes. It includes a 'Stop- Press' feature which informs the user of very recent legislative changes. In addition to this, hsedirect has a historical versions service, which allows the user to request a specific version of a legislative document from a given date.

hsedirect provides full-text versions of: HSE Legal Services material (Approved Codes of Practice, ‘L’ series, Codes of Practice and HSR series); HSE forms; European Directives; Safety, Health and Environment cases; and summaries of British Standards.

Users can choose from either ‘day ticket’ access or regular subscription options.