HSE fees and charges
Workplace safety
Fee for intervention FFI
Rate
£183 an hour for the time it takes HSE to identify what is wrong and to help you put things right.
Guidance
Working with ionising radiation – applications and inspections
Rates
£27 for a registration application
£227 an hour for application assessment and inspection for high-risk work that requires consent
Guidance
Notify, registration or consent for work with ionising radiation
Adventure activities – licence application
Rates
£715 to apply for a licence to work as a provider of adventure activities
Guidance
Examinations by employment medical advisers
Genetically modified organisms (GMOs) - notification of work with GMOs
Rates and guidance
COMAH regulations – HSE regulatory activity
Rate
£212 an hour for regulatory activity
Guidance
Competent Authority guidance on cost recovery for COMAH activities
Tractor cab approval – agriculture
Rates
£552 - approval for a tractor safety cab
£303 - renewal of an existing tractor cab approval
Energy and infrastructure
Gas transportation – HSE regulatory activity
Rate
£173 an hour for regulatory activity
Guidance
Oil, gas and chemical pipeline systems - HSE regulatory activity
Rate
£173 an hour for regulatory activity
Guidance
Onshore oil, gas and geothermal well and borehole operations - HSE regulatory activity
Rate
£204 an hour for regulatory activity
Guidance
Cost Recovery for Onshore Oil, Gas and Geothermal Well and Borehole Operations
Wind and marine energy (renewables) - HSE regulatory activity
Rate
£246 an hour for regulatory activity
Guidance
Offshore installations - HSE regulatory activity
Offshore first aid and medical training approval
Rate
£1928 - new offshore first aid application for approval
£644 - offshore first aid site visit
£134 - renewal of offshore first aid certificate of approval
£2655 - new offshore medic application for approval
£1520 - offshore medic site visit
£134 - renewal of offshore medic certificate of approval
Guidance
Petrol storage certificates and licences
Rates
The Health and Safety and Nuclear (Fees) Regulations 2022, Schedule 7, Part 6 (legislation.gov.uk)
Guidance
If you are an operator of or an employee at a petrol filling station
If you store petrol at home, or at a club/association or similar premises
Network and Information Systems (NIS) Regulations 2018 - HSE regulatory activity
Rates
£322 an hour for regulatory activity at offshore installations
£212 an hour for regulatory activity at COMAH site
Guidance
Cost recovery for the inspection under the Network and Information Systems (NIS) Regulations 2018
Gas safety engineer registration
Rates and guidance
Transport
Freight containers - approval of examination scheme or programme
Rates
£107 for approval of scheme or programme for examination of freight containers
Guidance
Carriage of dangerous goods - HSE regulatory activity
Rates
£75 an hour for regulatory activity
Guidance
Chemicals and substances
Asbestos licence
Rates
£3,683 for asbestos licence assessment
£3,683 for renewal of asbestos licence
£844 for reassessment following conditional refusal
£844 for amendment of condition or duration of licence
£91 other amendment (for example change of address) or replacement of a licence
Guidance
Explosives – applications and HSE regulatory activity
Rates
£145 an hour for enforcement, including inspection and investigation activity under the:
- Explosives Regulations 2014 (legislation.gov.uk)
- Acetylene Safety (England and Wales and Scotland) Regulations 2014 (legislation.gov.uk)
- Dangerous Goods in Harbour Areas Regulations 2016 (legislation.gov.uk)
£145 an hour for granting a licence or varying that license under Part 5 of the Dangerous Goods in Harbour Areas Regulations 2016.
Go to The Health and Safety and Nuclear (Fees) Regulations 2022, Schedule 7 (legislation.gov.uk) to find fees payable under the Explosives Regulations 2014 for:
- applications for licences to manufacture or store explosive
- applications to issue a recipient competent authority document or site manufacturing code
- explosives certificates