Resources
- Leadership and management
- Worker consultation and involvement
- Competence
- Specialist advice
- Process safety
- Organisations that offer advice on health and safety management
Leadership and management
HSE guidance on leading for health and safety and managing risk
- Leading health and safety at work
- Leadership for the major hazard industries
- The Institute of Directors (IOD) has produced guidance jointly with HSE on leadership in health and safety
- Risk management
- Health and safety made simple (HSMS) – guidance for small and micro-businesses
- The health and safety toolbox – for businesses that need more detailed guidance than HSMS
- Write a health and safety policy for your business
Management systems
- The British Standards Institution produces internationally recognised standards.
- The International Standards Organisation (ISO) develops and publishes international standards, including ISO 45001 Health and safety management standard.
- HSE and local authorities in Wales and South-West England have produced a Management Assessment Tool for SMEs (MAST). This is a toolkit for assessing health and safety management in small and medium-sized businesses.
Attitudes and behaviours
Reducing error and influencing behaviour
Measuring and reviewing performance
- The Safety Climate Tool, published by the Health and Safety Laboratory (HSL), enables businesses to measure workforce attitudes to health and safety.
- Energy Institute (EI) Process Safety Survey is a process safety measurement and benchmarking tool, based on the Energy Institute's High Level Framework for Process Safety Management.
- SHEIIBA – Safety, Health, Environment Intra Industry Benchmarking Service
- BSI Standards – self-assessment tool
- RoSPA – Quality Safety Audit
Worker consultation and involvement
HSE guidance on worker consultation and involvement
- How to involve workers in your business
- Worker involvement - 'do your bit' guidance and workplace materials (links to the National Archive)
Other organisations that provide advice on consultation and involvement
- The TUC produces guidance on workers' rights at work.
- ACAS promotes employment relations and has produced the Model Workplace Toolkit
- Electoral Reform Services, Popularis and IPA conduct ballots, surveys and other ways of consulting employees, on behalf of businesses.
Competence
HSE advice on competence
- HSE guidance 'hub' on competence in health and safety
- Competence-related guidance for a specific industry, task or working environment
- Passport schemes for health and safety can be a useful way for employers to check that somebody working on their premises, or elsewhere doing work on their behalf, has received basic health and safety awareness training.
- HSE produces a range of guidance on health and safety at work, organised by industry and topic.
Other organisations that provide advice on competence
The following list has examples of organisations that provide advice, guidance, training and/or qualifications to industry on health and safety.
- HSL offers a range of training courses on health and safety-related topics.
- The Chartered Institute of Environmental Health is a professional, awarding and campaigning body in the field of public and environmental health and safety.
- The European Agency for Safety and Health at Work is an organisation that works to improve occupational health and safety in Europe.
- Access Industry Forum
- EEF - The Manufacturers' Organisation
- LANTRA
- National Examination Board for Occupational Safety and Health (NEBOSH)
- Institution of Occupational Safety and Health (IOSH)
- International Institute of Risk and Safety Management
- Royal Society for the Prevention of Accidents (RoSPA)
- British Safety Council
- British Safety Industry Federation
- The Olympic Development Authority (ODA)
- National Compliance and Risk Qualifications (NCRQ)
Specialist advice
HSE specialist guidance
Other organisations that may help provide businesses with specialist advice
- Occupational Health and Safety Consultants Register
- British Psychological Society
- Chartered Institute of Ergonomics and Human Factors (CIEHF)
- Human Factors and Ergonomics Society - European Chapter
- BOHS (The Chartered Society for Worker Health Protection)
- Chemical Hazards Communication Society
- Chemical Business Association
Process safety
Guidance from HSE
- Developing process safety indicators: A step-by-step guide for chemical and major hazard industries
- Leadership for the major hazard industries
Guidance from the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD)
- Corporate Governance for Process Safety - Guidance for Senior Leaders in High-Hazard Industries
- Addendum to Guiding Principles (2011)
Guidance from the Energy Institute (EI)
- High-level framework for process safety management ('PSM framework')
- Human factors performance indicators for energy and related process industries
Other sources of information
- Center for Chemical Process Safety (CCPS)
- Chemical Industries Association
- European Process Safety Centre
Organisations that offer advice on health and safety management
- Acas
- British Safety Council (BSC)
- British Standards Institute (BSI)
- Royal Society for the Prevention of Accidents (RoSPA)
- National Examination Board for Occupational Safety and Health (NEBOSH)
- Trades Union Congress (TUC)
- Chartered Institute of Environmental Health (CIEH)
- Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC)
- The Federation of Small Businesses