Competent health and safety advice

The law says you must appoint someone competent to help you meet your health and safety duties.
You could appoint (one or a combination of):

• yourself;
• one or more of your workers;
• someone from outside your business.

If you are looking for competent advice to help you with health and safety, use our quick checklist Getting specialist help with health and safety INDG420 [104KB] to help you ask the right questions.

More information

• Examples of Bad, Poor and Good External Health and Safety Advice

Relevant HSE free leaflets:

• Getting specialist help with health and safety INDG420 [104KB]
  Guidance for employers on when and how to get advice on health and safety
• HSE statement to the external providers of health and safety assistance [105KB]

Sources of advice

• Competence - Information of sources of advice
  Health and safety specialists and the help they can give