Health and Safety Templates: Explore our SOP and Policy Gallery

It depends on where you operate and how many people you employ, but a written health and safety policy, a risk assessment for each significant hazard and a recorded accident reporting route are the common core in both the UK and the US.

Everything else tends to hang off a specific hazard you actually have, such as noise, working at height, hazardous substances or lone working.

Where the two diverge we publish both. The UK editions reference the frameworks a UK employer works to, and the US editions reference OSHA recordkeeping and the state rules that sit on top of it.

Neither is legal advice. They are drafting starting points, and the bracketed placeholders mark what you need to confirm for your own sites.

Give every document an owner and a review date rather than a version number nobody watches. A procedure that was accurate two reorganisations ago is worse than no procedure, because people still follow it.

Loading them into Whale lets you assign each one to the teams it applies to and set the review cycle once, so it resurfaces on schedule.