The law does not ask whether your people are competent. It asks you to show it. Every PHW pack is the written evidence a firm needs: a risk assessment, a safe system of work, an in-house training delivery session your own supervisor can run, a theory test, a practical assessment on your own equipment, a written authorisation naming the person and the task, toolbox talks, and a register that turns a one-off exercise into a system.
Nothing hidden. Every single-topic pack follows the same structure, whichever hazard it covers.
Each pack also has a theory test answer key. It is supplied separately to the employer, not published in the pack itself, so the test stays a genuine assessment when your own supervisor marks it.
One hazard, done completely, for the whole firm.
Control of Asbestos Regulations 2012
Anyone whose work could disturb asbestos in a building built or refurbished before the year 2000.
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 →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 →Electricity at Work Regulations 1989
Portable tools and leads, RCD protection, and keeping clear of overhead and buried services.
View the pack →CDM 2015, regulation 22 and Schedule 3
Never enter an unsupported excavation, and locate buried services before digging starts.
View the pack →Control of Vibration at Work Regulations 2005
Breakers, grinders, sanders, drills and chainsaws, and the exposure limits that apply to them.
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 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 →Work at Height Regulations 2005
Ladders, roofs, platforms and fragile surfaces: avoid, then prevent, then mitigate a fall.
View the pack →Workplace (Health, Safety and Welfare) Regulations 1992, regulation 17
Safe positioning, standard hand signals and a competence record for anyone marshalling reversing vehicles.
View the pack →PUWER 1998, demonstrable competence to select, mount or use a wheel
Grinders, cut-off saws and bench grinders: mounting, guarding, ring testing and the work rest gap.
View the pack →A whole trade, several hazard areas in one pack.
Ground-level site operatives: working at height, dust and silica, vibration and noise, manual handling, hand and power tools, and concrete and cement, under CDM 2015, the Work at Height Regulations 2005 and COSHH 2002.
View →Yards, warehouses and sites where vehicles, plant and pedestrians share the same ground: safe site layout, safe vehicle, driver competence, loading and unloading, vehicle marshal procedure and visiting driver rules, under the Workplace Regulations 1992, regulation 17.
View →Vehicle repair garages, MOT stations, tyre and exhaust bays and bodyshops: vehicle lifts under LOLER 1998, 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 →This is the gap almost every small firm has.
A video course gives general awareness training. It does not give job-specific training, assessment on your own equipment and your own site, a written authorisation naming the person and the equipment, a risk assessment and safe system of work, or inspection records and a refresher register. A pack gives all of those, for the whole firm, not per head.
Not required to be compliant, but available where a customer, principal contractor or insurer wants third-party evidence.
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 resolves to a live verification page. The certificate states plainly that the assessment was carried out in-house and verified by PHW. It is not a record of PHW having carried out the assessment itself, and records that are too thin are rejected rather than certified.
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