Workplace inspections, audits and checklists on a recurring schedule.
Run general health & safety: build any checklist, schedule recurring inspections and audits, and log actions through to completion.
The duty
What General Health & Safety compliance involves.
The Health and Safety at Work etc. Act 1974 and the Management Regulations 1999 require employers to assess risks and maintain safe systems of work.
CertFlow lets you build any inspection or audit checklist, run it on a recurring schedule, and track every action to completion with a timestamped trail.
Your legal duties
What the regulations require.
General duty of care
Employers must ensure, so far as is reasonably practicable, the health, safety and welfare at work of their employees, and of others who may be affected by what they do.
Risk assessment and arrangements
Employers must assess risks and put in place arrangements for planning, organising, controlling, monitoring and reviewing preventive measures, recording the significant findings where they employ five or more people.
Competent assistance and training
A competent person must be appointed to help meet health and safety duties, and employees given the information, instruction, training and supervision they need to work safely.
Consultation and records
Employers must consult their employees on health and safety matters, and keep records of assessments, inspections, incidents and training.
How CertFlow handles it
From due date to defensible certificate.
General Health & Safety runs on the same platform as every other discipline, so the workflow, the registry and the audit trail are identical, whatever your team inspects.
Ready-to-issue templates
A built-in HASAWA 1974 report template, plus a drag-and-drop builder and bespoke PDF overlay for any client-specific form.
Automatic scheduling
Put every general health & safety asset on a recurring examination cycle. CertFlow generates the jobs and warns you before anything falls due.
Captured on site, offline
Readings, photos and signatures are captured in the field on mobile, fully offline, and sync the moment a connection returns.
Audit-ready proof
Every general health & safety certificate is filed in a searchable, exportable compliance registry with a full timestamped history.
From the field
What inspectors commonly find.
The defects and gaps that come up again and again on general health & safety inspections, the ones a good system helps you catch before an auditor does.
- Risk assessments missing, or not reviewed after the work changed
- No documented competent-person appointment
- No written health and safety policy where five or more people are employed
- Accidents not investigated, or reportable ones not notified under RIDDOR
- Training, induction and consultation records incomplete
Why it matters
Penalties & enforcement.
Breaching the Health and Safety at Work etc. Act 1974 can bring HSE improvement and prohibition notices, prosecution, unlimited fines and, for the most serious failures, imprisonment, alongside the human cost of avoidable harm.
Free download: the General Health & Safety duty-holder guideQuestions
General Health & Safety on CertFlow, answered.
What does the Health and Safety at Work Act require?
That employers protect the health, safety and welfare of their workers and others affected by the work, so far as is reasonably practicable, supported by risk assessment and safe systems of work under the Management Regulations 1999.
When must a risk assessment be written down?
When an employer has five or more employees, the significant findings of the risk assessment must be recorded.
What is a competent person?
Someone with sufficient training, knowledge and experience to help the employer meet their health and safety duties, such as a qualified health and safety adviser.
How does CertFlow support general health and safety?
CertFlow lets you build any inspection or audit checklist, run it on a recurring schedule, and track every action through to completion with a timestamped trail.
Can CertFlow record accidents and corrective actions?
Yes. Inspections, audits, accident records and corrective actions are held in one place and tracked through to closure.
Further reading
Guides and reference for general health & safety.
Duty Holder’s Guide to Health and Safety (HASAWA 1974)
What the Health and Safety at Work etc. Act 1974 and its management regulations require of you, in plain English.
References
General Health & Safety: official sources
- Health and Safety at Work etc. Act 1974legislation.gov.uk
- Management of Health and Safety at Work Regulations 1999legislation.gov.uk
- RIDDOR: HSE guidanceHSE
Links to primary UK legislation and official regulator guidance. CertFlow is independent and not affiliated with these bodies.
Related disciplines
Often run alongside General Health & Safety.
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See it on your data
Run your first general health & safety report in the demo.
We'll set up a live environment with your asset types and branding, then walk you through a HASAWA 1974 job end to end.