HSE Health and Safety Guides – now available online
Recently I’ve been doing some research on Event Health and Safety. In the past that meant having to buy hard-copy documents from the HSE for the likes of “The Event Safety Guide” (Purple Guide) and The Guide to Safety at Sports Grounds (Green Guide). These are now available online which is much easier to view and refer to.
Some of these are special web friendly versions (such as the First Aid at Work and Essential of Health and Safety at work), but others are just scanned versions of the print edition (such as The Event Safety Guide and The Guide to Safety at Sports Grounds). The latter are quite poor quality due to the resolution that they are saved at to keep the file sizes lower. They are still weighty downloads at up to 6mb for the scanned documents.
Free Downloads
- First Aid at Work [pdf]
- Essentials of Health and Safety at work [pdf]
- The Event Safety Guide (Purple Guide) [pdf]
- The Guide to Safety at Sports Grounds (Green Guide) [pdf] (1)
- Managing Crowds Safely [pdf]
- Five Steps to Risk Assessment [pdf]
- Risk Management [web links]
- Fire and Explosion – How Safe is your workplace [pdf]
- Safe Working with flammable substances [pdf]
- Workplace Health Safety and Welfare (A short guide for managers) [pdf]
- Lighting at Work [pdf]
- Organising Firework Displays [html]
- Giving your own Firework Display [pdf]
- Working together on Firework Displays [pdf]
I think this is a great step providing these for free download. The important thing is that managers and organisers should be aware of how the workplace and events can be organised safely. Making these available for free removes a barrier to getting that information. I will be providing some training soon and it will also be useful to provide access to the information source on-line. Some of the larger documents are still available to buy as printed material, which is good as well as the print quality is better and the convenience of having a printed book can be very useful for those that need to refer to the documents on a regular basis.
Also see
- First Aid Information and Training
- First Aid and Health and Safety News
- Book Review: Health & Safety at Work – An essential guide for managers by Jeremy Stranks
- Book Review: Health and Safety Pocket Book by Jeremy Stranks
(1) The Guide to Safety at Sports Grounds does not appear to be available for download on the HSE website, but is instead on the Department for Culture, Media and Sport website.