• Useful Links

    Organisations

    HSE | UK Government regulator, also providing advice and useful forms and templates (see more in ‘Health & Safety Executive guidance’ section below)

    Institute of Civil Engineers (ICE) | Chartered membership body for Civil Engineers and Infrastructure Engineers

    Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA) | Chartered membership body for Architects

    Chartered Institute for Architectural Technologists (CIAT) | Chartered membership body for Architectural Technologists

    Chartered Institute of Building (CIOB) | Chartered membership body for Building and construction management professionals

    Association for Project Safety (APS) | Membership body for Principal Designer service providers, both individual and corporate

    Temporary Works Forum | Membership body for temporary works

    The Designers’ Initiative on Health and Safety (DIOHAS) | By architects for architects, especially large practices and large projects

    NBS | Cloud based data and systems for the built environment

    Health and Safety Executive guidance

    HSE for designers | Specialist advice for construction designers and specifiers

    HSE for small contractors | Useful range of construction H&S information, forms and templates for small projects

    HSE on building safety | Building safety reforms and legislation

    Law, emerging law and important cases

    L153 Construction (Design and Management) Regulations 2015 | CDM regulations

    Grenfell Tower Inquiry | Examines the circumstances leading up to and surrounding the fire at Grenfell Tower

    Building Safety Act | Information relating to the Building Safety Act, which was granted Royal Assent on 28 April 2022

    Principal Designer and Designer guidance

    Designers: roles and responsibilities | HSE’s Designer resources

    Principal designers: roles and responsibilities | HSE’s Principal Designer resources

    A practical look at the Principal Designer role | Gavin Bull (HSE) presentation, 2018

    HSE Record of inspection of principal designer | Link opens a .docx download

    Capability and competence

    The SKATE report | Skills, Knowledge, Attitude, Training and Experience: designing for occupational health of construction workers

    Fast roads and highways

    Highways Safety Hub | Working with the aim of eliminating the risk of harm to all those that work on and use the strategic road network

    SURVIVE | Safe Use of Roadside Verges in Vehicular Emergencies

    National Highways | Management of England’s motorways and major A roads  

    ORR (Office of Rail and Road) | ORR protects the interests of rail and road users,  improving the safety, value, and performance of railways and roads, today and in the future

    Welsh Transport | Resources from the Welsh Government, relating to the transport sector

    Trafnidiaeth Cymru | Adnoddau gan Lywodraeth Cymru, gan gyfeirio at y sector trafnidiaeth

    Transport Scotland: Roads | Transport Scotland maintain, upgrade and monitor the trunk road network across Scotland

    Rail

    RSSB (Rail Safety and Standards Board) | Works across an evolving railway to improve safety, efficiency and sustainability

    ORR (Office of Rail and Road) | ORR protects the interests of rail and road users,  improving the safety, value, and performance of railways and roads, today and in the future

    Wind farms and Emerging Energies Technologies (EET)

    EET guidance | HSE’s resources page for EET

    Structural Timber

    16 steps to fire safety | Structural Timber Association’s HSE- and insurer-endorsed guidance (registration required)

    Forestry

    Forest Industry Safety Accord’s Safety Library | Guidance from FISA (the accord that sets out the industry commitment agreed by leading forestry organisations to raise the standard of health, safety and welfare in the workplace).

    Contaminated land and ground engineering

    CL:AIRE | A UK charity committed to providing a valuable service for all those involved in sustainable land reuse

    Specialist professional register | ICE’s database of industry specialists

    CIRIA (Construction Industry Research and Information Association) | A group facilitating a range of collaborative activities to help improve performance in the construction industry

    Water and flood risk management

    CIRIA (Construction Industry Research and Information Association) | A group facilitating a range of collaborative activities to help improve performance in the construction industry

    Health, Safety & Wellbeing initiatives

    Get it Right initiative (GIRI) | A group of industry experts, organisations and businesses dedicated to eliminating error and improving the UK construction industry

    Health in Construction Leadership Group | Formed to unite the construction industry in order to eradicate the ill health and disease caused by exposures to health hazards on building sites