Health & Safety

Under Documentation in the menu.

The project's health and safety records — risk assessments, notifications and incident log — scaled to the size of the project, with clear warnings for work you must not do yourself.

Methodology: The paperwork scales with the project: a small domestic job needs almost none, a larger one with multiple trades needs risk assessments and notification records, and the page tells you which tier applies and why. Guidance here is advisory throughout — it flags duties (such as CDM notification or RIDDOR reporting) rather than blocking work. That includes the jobs the law reserves for registered professionals, like gas and some notifiable electrical work: the page calls those out at the top, in red, as work you should not take on yourself — but it will not stop you assigning them. Nothing on this page is a gate; the decision, and the legal responsibility for it, stay with you.

Steps:

  1. Read What this project needs: the tier — work you're doing yourself, one contractor, more than one, or notifiable to the HSE — is worked out from the project, and each duty is marked Yours or Passes to the contractor.
  2. Tick the hazards under What's involved and answer the occupancy and site-size questions; the list of records adjusts.
  3. Under Records on file press Add record or Attach document against each slot; Accept a contractor's method statement when it arrives.
  4. Read the red list at the top of work reserved for registered professionals, and keep gas and notifiable electrical work with them.
  5. Under Hazards & incidents press Log something — What kind, What happened, How serious, Where — then Record it; the page says when one looks RIDDOR-reportable.

In the recommended process