A Stihl saw with the wrong wheel on it. A forklift working where people walk. Under PUWER 1998, regulation 9, you must make sure the people using work equipment have had adequate training, and you will be asked to show it. Each PHW pack is that evidence in writing.
A whole trade, several hazard areas in one pack.
Yards, loading bays, warehouses and manufacturing sites where lorries, forklifts and people share the same ground: site layout, vehicle checks, driver and forklift operator competence, loading and unloading, reversing and marshalling, and rules for visiting drivers. Under the Workplace (Health, Safety and Welfare) Regulations 1992, regulation 17, the Provision and Use of Work Equipment Regulations 1998, regulation 9, and section 3 of the Health and Safety at Work etc. Act 1974.
View →Site operatives and labourers doing hands-on work: working at height, dust and silica, vibration and noise, manual handling, hand and power tools, concrete and cement, excavations and buried services, electricity on site and asbestos awareness, under the Construction (Design and Management) Regulations 2015 and the regulations for each hazard.
View →A day of training and a marked workbook for new starters, labourers and apprentices going onto a construction site for the first time: risk assessment, manual handling, working at height, health risks on site and working safely around plant.
View →Vehicle repair garages, MOT stations, tyre and exhaust bays and bodyshops: vehicle lifts under the Lifting Operations and Lifting Equipment Regulations 1998 (LOLER), pressure systems, hazardous substances and the specific risks of electric vehicles.
View →Masons, worktop fabricators, installers and stone restoration trades, where respirable crystalline silica is the main hazard rather than a background risk, under COSHH 2002 and the HSE EH40 exposure limits.
View →Premises licence holders have their own packs and staff training evidence, kept apart from the machine and safety packs.
See the packs →One hazard, done completely.
Provision and Use of Work Equipment Regulations 1998 (PUWER), regulation 9, and HSE guidance HSG17
Stihl saws, angle grinders and bench grinders: choosing the right disc or blade for the machine speed, mounting and guarding, wet cutting to control silica dust, and on bench grinders the work rest gap and ring testing.
View the pack →Workplace (Health, Safety and Welfare) Regulations 1992, regulation 17; on construction sites, CDM 2015, regulations 27 and 28
Safe positioning, standard hand signals and a competence record for anyone marshalling reversing vehicles in yards, on loading bays and on construction sites.
View the pack →Construction (Design and Management) Regulations 2015 (CDM 2015), regulations 22 and 25; HSE guidance HSG47
Never enter an unsupported excavation, and locate buried services before digging starts.
View the pack →Control of Substances Hazardous to Health Regulations 2002 (COSHH) and the HSE EH40 workplace exposure limits
Cutting, drilling and chasing stone, brick, block, concrete or screed, and the controls that keep dust below the limit.
View the pack →Control of Vibration at Work Regulations 2005
Breakers, grinders, sanders, drills, chainsaws and plate compactors, and the exposure action and limit values that apply to them.
View the pack →Work at Height Regulations 2005
Ladders, roofs, platforms and fragile surfaces: avoid, then prevent, then mitigate a fall.
View the pack →Manual Handling Operations Regulations 1992 (as amended)
Avoid the handling where possible, assess what cannot be avoided, and reduce the risk that remains.
View the pack →COSHH 2002, regulations 6, 7, 11 and 12
Wet cement is strongly alkaline and causes chemical burns and dermatitis that often go unfelt until the damage is done.
View the pack →Electricity at Work Regulations 1989
Portable tools and leads, RCD protection, and keeping clear of overhead and buried services.
View the pack →Control of Substances Hazardous to Health Regulations 2002
Assessing, preventing and controlling exposure to chemicals, dusts and fumes in any workplace that uses them.
View the pack →Control of Asbestos Regulations 2012
Anyone whose work could disturb asbestos in a building built or refurbished before the year 2000.
View the pack →Ask here if the hazard you need is not on this list.
Ask a question →Every single-topic pack follows the same structure, whichever hazard it covers.
Each pack also has a theory test answer key. It comes to you, the employer, as a separate document, so the test stays a genuine assessment when your own supervisor marks it.
A principal contractor, an insurer or an HSE inspector can ask for the same things.
Job-specific training. An assessment on your own equipment, on your own site. A written authorisation naming the person and the equipment. A risk assessment and safe system of work. Inspection records and a refresher register. A pack gives you all of those.
Where a customer, principal contractor or insurer asks for a certificate for each person, PHW checks your records and issues one.
You assess your own people in-house using the pack, and send PHW the completed records. PHW checks the records and, where they hold up, issues a certificate carrying a QR code that opens a live verification page. The certificate states plainly that the assessment was carried out in-house and verified by PHW, recording PHW's verification of that in-house assessment; records that are too thin are rejected rather than certified.
Tell us your trade and how many people you have, and PHW will come back with a quote.
PHW also works on your own site: up to four of your people assessed for competence in one day, on your own site and machines, with minimum downtime. Plus a written safe-system pack for each topic.