Health and Safety Executive

Getting started - step-by-step

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.

Free tools and advice

Health and safety made simple 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.

For a brief guide to health and safety law 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.

HSE's Starter Pack

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.


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Updated 26.07.11