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Health and safety basics for your business (HSE)

Health and safety basics for your business is free guidance from HSE on the basic steps businesses of any size in England need to take to meet health and safety law. Open, no fixed deadline.

Run by HSE - Health and Safety Executive

Checked against the official page (hse.gov.uk) on 16 Oct 2026.

Free guidance from HSE, Great Britain's workplace health and safety regulator, on the basic steps a business takes to comply with health and safety law. HSE also runs paid training courses.

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These details are gathered from public web pages and are not financial advice. Check them with HSE - Health and Safety Executive before you apply.

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Status and deadline

Status

Open all year

Confirmed on the official page

Deadline

Open all year

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How much

Not stated

Who can apply

Employers and businesses of any size. HSE says these basic steps may be all a small, low-risk business needs.

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Business size

Start-ups, Micro (under 10 staff), Small (10 to 49 staff), Medium (50 to 249 staff), Large businesses

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How to apply

No application: HSE's information is free online, and it also runs paid training courses.

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Where it is open: England-wide

England

Not confirmed on the official page

HartlepoolMiddlesbroughRedcar and ClevelandStockton-on-TeesDarlingtonHaltonWarringtonBlackburn with DarwenBlackpoolKingston upon Hull, City ofEast Riding of YorkshireNorth East LincolnshireNorth LincolnshireYorkCounty DurhamCheshire EastCheshire West and ChesterNorthumberlandCumberlandWestmorland and FurnessNorth YorkshireBurnleyChorleyFyldeHyndburnLancasterPendlePrestonRibble ValleyRossendaleSouth RibbleWest LancashireWyreBoltonBuryManchesterOldhamRochdaleSalfordStockportTamesideTraffordWiganKnowsleyLiverpoolSt. HelensSeftonWirralDoncasterRotherhamNewcastle upon TyneNorth TynesideSouth TynesideSunderlandBradfordCalderdaleKirkleesLeedsWakefieldGatesheadBarnsleySheffield

Open across England, so every council area in the North of England is shaded.

Drawn from the areas the funder names. If a scheme is only for part of a council area, check its own page. Boundaries from the Office for National Statistics.

Things we could not confirm

  • The text is only a one-line description of the training. It does not say whether a fee is charged, who can book, or whether any funding is available.
  • Not a grant, loan or funding scheme; listed because the page is HSE's own page and the source note asks for it to be returned.

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Source and last checked

Local Landscape gathers this information automatically from the pages below, then checks the key details against the official page. Checked against the official page (hse.gov.uk) on 16 Oct 2026. Its details last changed on 15 Oct 2026. A person last checked it on 15 Oct 2026, so confirm the details with HSE - Health and Safety Executive before you apply.

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