HSE fees and charges: current rates
This page lists HSE’s charges for specific regulatory services and the hourly rates.
Updated: 01/04/2026
Workplace safety
Fee for intervention FFI
Rate
£188 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 – registrations and consents
Rates
£27 for a registration application
£234 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
Rates
The rates are in schedule 4 of The Health and Safety and Nuclear (Fees) Regulations 2022 (legislation.gov.uk).
Genetically modified organisms (GMOs) - notification of work with GMOs
Rates
The rates are in schedule 9 of The Health and Safety and Nuclear (Fees) Regulations 2022 (legislation.gov.uk).
Guidance
Tractor cab approval – agriculture
Rates
The rates are in schedule 1 of The Health and Safety and Nuclear (Fees) Regulations 2022 (legislation.gov.uk).
Energy and infrastructure
Cost recovery for gas transportation
Rate
£178 an hour for regulatory activity
Guidance
Cost recovery for oil, gas and chemical pipeline systems
Rate
£178 an hour for regulatory activity
Guidance
Cost recovery onshore oil, gas and geothermal well and borehole operations
Rate
£210 an hour for regulatory activity
Guidance
Cost Recovery for Onshore Oil, Gas and Geothermal Well and Borehole Operations
Cost recovery for wind and marine energy (renewables)
Rate
£253 an hour for regulatory activity
Guidance
Cost recovery for offshore installations
Offshore first aid and medical training approval
Rates
The rates are in schedule 13 of The Health and Safety and Nuclear (Fees) Regulations 2022 (legislation.gov.uk).
Guidance
Petrol storage certificates and licences
Rates
The rates are in schedule 7, part 6 of The Health and Safety and Nuclear (Fees) Regulations 2022 (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
Cost recovery under The Network and Information Systems (NIS) Regulations 2018
Rates
£332 an hour for regulatory activity at offshore installations
£218 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
The fees are in schedule 2 of The Health and Safety and Nuclear (Fees) Regulations 2022 (legislation.gov.uk).
Guidance
Cost recovery for carriage of dangerous goods
Rates
£77 an hour for the classification of explosives
Guidance
Classification of explosives under carriage of dangerous goods
Chemicals and substances
Asbestos licence
Guidance and rates
The rates are also in schedule 3 of The Health and Safety and Nuclear (Fees) Regulations 2022 (legislation.gov.uk).
COMAH regulations – HSE regulatory activity
Rate
£218 an hour for regulatory activity
Guidance
Competent Authority guidance on cost recovery for COMAH activities
Cost recovery for explosives and acetylene
Rates
£149 an hour for regulatory activity carried out 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)
This includes:
- applications to HSE for licences to manufacture or store explosive
- fees charged for applications and replacements of acetylene licences
Go to schedule 7 of The Health and Safety and Nuclear (Fees) Regulations 2022 (legislation.gov.uk) to find fees payable under the Explosives Regulations 2014 for:
- applications to issue a recipient competent authority document or site manufacturing code
- licenses to store explosives made to police or local authority
- explosives certificates
Guidance
Pesticides – application and evaluation fees and annual charge on sales
Guidance and rates
Application and evaluation fees: plant protection products and active substances
Annual charge on pesticide product sales
The rates are also in schedule 1 of The Plant Protection Products (Fees and Charges) Regulations 2011 (legislation.gov.uk).
Biocides - applications for approval and authorisation
Guidance and rates
Biocides fees - estimates for applications
The rates are in schedule 15 of The Health and Safety and Nuclear (Fees) Regulations 2022 (legislation.gov.uk).
UK REACH regulation – registration, updates, confidentiality requests, PPORD notification and authorisation
Rates and guidance
The rates are also in The REACH Fees and Charges (Amendment of Commission Regulation (EC) No 340/2008) Regulations 2025 (legislation.gov.uk).
CLP regulation – evaluating proposals
Rates
The rates are in schedule 16 of The Health and Safety and Nuclear (Fees) Regulations 2022 (legislation.gov.uk).
Guidance
Updating the GB mandatory classification and labelling list (GB MCL List)