Compliance, explained without the jargon.
Practical guides to the regulations your clients are audited against, written for the people who actually do the inspections.
Regulatory guides
What is an EICR? A practical guide for UK firms
What an Electrical Installation Condition Report is, when one is required, how observation codes work, and how to issue one efficiently.
5 min read LiftingLOLER thorough examinations explained
What LOLER requires, how often thorough examinations are needed, and what a competent person looks for.
4 min read RiskRAMS: a practical guide for site teams
What Risk Assessments and Method Statements are, why they matter, and how to produce site-specific RAMS quickly.
4 min read FireFire risk assessments and the RRO explained
What the Fire Safety Order requires, who the responsible person is, what a fire risk assessment covers and how often fire-safety provisions are serviced.
5 min read GasWhat is a CP12? The Landlord Gas Safety Record explained
What a CP12 is, who needs one, what the annual gas safety check covers and the deadlines for issuing the record to tenants.
4 min read PressurePSSR and the written scheme of examination explained
What PSSR requires, what a written scheme of examination is, which systems are covered and the duty holder responsibilities.
4 min read WaterLegionella control and ACoP L8 explained
What ACoP L8 requires, what a legionella risk assessment and written scheme of control cover, and how monitoring is scheduled.
5 min read COSHHCOSHH assessments: a practical guide
What a COSHH assessment covers, the hierarchy of control, how control measures are maintained, and when health surveillance is needed.
5 min read Work EquipmentPUWER explained: work equipment duties
What PUWER covers, the core duties on work equipment, how it differs from LOLER, and how inspection frequency is decided.
4 min read HVACF-Gas Regulation and TM44 inspections explained
What the F-Gas Regulation requires, how leak-check frequency is set, the records you must keep, and what a TM44 inspection is.
4 min read WasteWaste duty of care explained
What the waste duty of care requires, the documentation needed, how hazardous waste is handled, and how long records must be kept.
4 min read Health & SafetyGeneral health and safety: a practical compliance framework
The core duties behind UK health and safety law, from risk assessment and competent-person appointment to RIDDOR and consultation, and how to keep the records an audit will ask for.
5 min readReference and comparison
LOLER report template
A practical blank Report of Thorough Examination template covering the Schedule 1 particulars, with official sources.
Inspection Frequency Cheat-Sheet
How often every UK statutory inspection and examination is required, by discipline, with the governing regulation for each.
Compliance Glossary
Every regulation, standard and acronym a UK inspection firm runs into, defined in plain English.
CertFlow vs Spreadsheets
The real cost of running compliance on Excel, and what changes when you switch.
Use-case guides
Bottom-funnel guidance for paper forms, shared drives, generic software and discipline-specific inspection workflows.
Security & Data
How CertFlow keeps your data UK-hosted, encrypted, backed up and GDPR compliant.
Frequently Asked Questions
Quick answers on what CertFlow does, pricing, offline working and data security, plus FAQs for every discipline.
Free downloads
Duty-holder regulation guides, cheat sheets and checklists for UK inspection firms. Free to download and use.
Admin time calculator
See how many hours and how much money manual scheduling and certificate admin cost your firm each year.
Audit-ready checklist
A two-minute self-scoring check of your record keeping, scheduling, competent-person records and retention.
Knowledge base
UK compliance topics from a separate automated-content library. For team-written articles, see the blog.
Lifting inspection workflows
Focused guides for cranes, lifting registers, reports, slings, offline work and QR-tagged equipment.